Walter Frith
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File:Mrs Walter Frith, by George Percy Jacomb-Hood.jpg, 1904]]
Walter Frith (29 July 1856, London – 25 July 1941, Putney) was an English barrister, author,{{acad|id=FRT875W|name=Frith, Walter}}{{cite journal|title=Frith, Walter|journal=Who's Who|year=1919|page= 897|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015047639912;view=1up;seq=939}} and drama critic.{{cite book|author=Sutherland, John|chapter=Frith, Walter|year=2009|edition= 2nd|title=The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction|page=236|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X2KuBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA236}}
Walter Frith, a son of the famous painter William Powell Frith, was educated at Harrow{{cite book|title=Harrow School register, 1801–1893|page=404|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433067405625;view=1up;seq=418}} and then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A. 1879, LL.B. 1879, and M.A. 1882. He was admitted to Inner Temple on 25 January 1876 and called to the Bar on 9 June 1880. He wrote fourteen plays and three novels.
{{blockquote|A well-regarded man of letters, Frith was a member of the exclusive Athenaeum Club. His literary output is mainly numerous melodramatic plays, and he was for many years the drama critic of Pall Mall.}}
In 1898 he married Maud Law, widow of Rev. W. Law. One of Walter Frith's sisters was Jane Ellen Panton.
Novels
- {{cite book|title=In Search of Quiet|year=1895|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008668814}}{{cite journal|title=Review of In Search of Quiet by Walter Frith|journal=The Athenaeum|issue= 3559|date=11 January 1896|page=47|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c3469032;view=1up;seq=63}}
- {{cite book|title=The Sack of Monte Carlo|year=1897|url=https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100105381}}{{cite journal|title=Brief review of The Sack of Monte Carlo by Walter Frith|journal=The Westminster Review|volume=149|issue=1|date=January 1898|page=113|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KtYkvbdhUVMC&pg=PA113}}
- {{cite book|title=The Tutor's Love Story|year=1904}}{{cite journal|title=Review of The Tutor's Love Story by Walter Frith|journal=The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art|volume=97|date=14 May 1904|page=627|issue=2533|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kelAAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA627}}
References
External links
- {{Gutenberg author|id=45952|name=Frith, Walter}}
- {{cite web|title="The Artist's Son, Walter" by William Powell Frith|website=The Athenaeum|url=https://www.the-athenaeum.org/art/detail.php?ID=126615}}
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Category:People educated at Harrow School
Category:Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge