Augustus Charles Bickley

Born in Birmingham, he was the youngest son of Francis Bickley of Carlisle, and brother of Francis Bridges Bickley of the British Museum.{{cite web|url=http://www.victorianresearch.org/atcl/show_author.php?aid=1545|title=Augustus Charles Bickley, Author Information At the Circulating Library|access-date=11 May 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000231/18870618/106/0005|title=Marriages|date=18 June 1887|work=Hampshire Chronicle|page=5|via=British Newspaper Archive|access-date=11 May 2016}}{{cite book|author=Norman Penney|title=The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society|year=1904|publisher=Headley Brothers|page=120}} Their father died in London, in 1865;{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000365/18650624/093/0008|title=Deaths|date=24 June 1865|work=Carlisle Patriot|via=British Newspaper Archive|page=8|access-date=11 May 2016}} as a surgeon and dentist in Carlisle, he had married Harriet Bridges of Lichfield in 1851.{{cite news|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000395/18510823/040/0003|title=Marriages|date=23 August 1851|work=Derbyshire Courier|page=3|via=British Newspaper Archive|access-date=11 May 2016}}

Bickley passed the preliminary examination for Civil Service clerks in 1876.{{London Gazette|issue=24347|date=21 July 1876|page=4107}} A few years later he was working as a journalist in London.

Bickley wrote over 80 articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, to 1891.s:Author:Augustus Charles Bickley He encountered criticism, with his biography of Richard Carpenter (died c.1670) called too close to one written in Biographia Britannia.{{cite book|author=Arthur Cayley Headlam|title=The Church Quarterly Review|year=1889|publisher=S.P.C.K.|page=367}} Other works included:

• Archibald Campbell Tait: A Sketch of the Public Life of the Late Archbishop of Canterbury (1882)
• George Fox and the Early Quakers (1884)
• Bibliographical Notes (1889), editor, vol. IX in The Gentleman's Magazine Library{{cite book|author1=Sir William Osler|author2=Osler Library|title=Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V1Ojg3GSY94C&pg=PA602|year=1969|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-9050-2|page=602}}
• Midst Surrey Hills: A Rural Story (1890), novel
• Handfasted (1890), novel, with George S. Curryer{{cite book|author1=Augustus Charles Bickley|author2=George S. Curryer|title=Handfasted. [A Novel.].|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=152WOwAACAAJ|year=1890}}

The Barn at Beccles (1891) was a play co-written with George Hughes.{{cite book|title=A History of Late nineteenth Centruty Drama 1850–1900|volume=II|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ong3AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA430|publisher=CUP Archive|isbn=978-1-00-128700-3|page=430}}

Bickley married Anna Louisa Ball of Knaphill, Surrey at Woking, on 14 June 1887.

{{reflist}}

• [http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Bickley%2C%20Augustus%20Charles Online Books page]

{{authority control}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Bickley, Augustus Charles}}

Category:1857 births

Category:1902 deaths

Category:English journalists

Category:English male novelists

Category:English biographers

Category:Contributors to the Dictionary of National Biography

Category:English male biographers

{{UK-journalist-stub}}