1910–1911
Britannica 11th
Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition
AUSTIN. ALFRED (1835- ), English poet-laureate, was born at Headingley, near Leeds, on the 3oth of May 1835. His father, Joseph Austin, was a merchant of the city of Leeds; his mother, a sister of Joseph Locke, M.P. for Honiton. Mr Austin was educated at Stonyhurst, Oscott, and London University, where he graduated in 1853. He was called to the bar four years later, and practised as a barrister for a short time; but in 1 86 1, after two comparatively false starts in poetry and fiction, he made his first noteworthy …
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