17 Facts About Charles Whibley

Charles Whibley was an English literary journalist and author.

Charles Whibley supported James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Charles Whibley recommended T S Eliot to Geoffrey Faber, which resulted in Eliot's being appointed as an editor at Faber and Gwyer.

Charles Whibley was born 9 December 1859 at Sittingbourne, Kent, England.

Charles Whibley's parents were Ambrose Whibley, silk mercer, and his second wife, Mary Jean Davy.

Charles Whibley was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he took a first in classics in 1883.

Charles Whibley shared a house with his brother Leonard Whibley, William Ernest Henley, and George Warrington Steevens.

In 1894 Charles Whibley became the Paris correspondent for the Pall Mall Gazette.

In Paris Charles Whibley moved in symbolist circles with Stephane Mallarme, Marcel Schwob, and Paul Valery.

Charles Whibley was a witness at the wedding of Marcel Schwob and Marguerite Moreno in England on 12 September 1900.

Whistler painted a number of full-length portraits of Ethel Charles Whibley, including Mother of Pearl and Silver: The Andalusian, and portraits and sketches of her titled as Miss Ethel Philip or Mrs Ethel Charles Whibley.

On one occasion Whistler mocked Charles Whibley for describing himself as "something of a boulevardier" during his time in Paris.

Whibley's wife, Ethel, died in 1920, and in 1927 Charles married Philippa Raleigh, the daughter of Walter Raleigh, Chair of English Literature at Oxford University.

Charles Whibley contributed to the London and Edinburgh magazines, including The Pall Mall Magazine, Macmillan's Magazine, and Blackwood's Magazine.

Charles Whibley was a persistent critic of the system of state education.

Charles Whibley was friends with William Ernest Henley and contributed to the Scots Observer and to the National Observer under Henley's editorship.

Charles Whibley died on 4 March 1930 at Hyeres, France, and his body was buried at Great Brickhill, Buckinghamshire.