16 Facts About Henry Newbolt

Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet, novelist and historian.

Henry Newbolt had a role as a government adviser with regard to the study of English in England.

Henry Newbolt is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitai Lampada" and "Drake's Drum".

Henry Newbolt married Margaret Edwina nee Duckworth of the prominent publishing family -Duckworth Books; they had two children:.

Henry Newbolt resided at 14 Victoria Road in Kensington from 1889 to 1898.

Henry Newbolt's first book was a novel, Taken from the Enemy, and in 1895 he published a tragedy, Mordred; but it was the publication of his ballads, Admirals All, that created his literary reputation.

The Twymans: A Tale of Youth is a short work of fiction wherein Henry Newbolt fleshes out the features of his own extraordinary education at Clifton.

In 1914, Henry Newbolt published Aladore, a fantasy novel about a bored but dutiful knight who abruptly abandons his estate and wealth to discover his heart's desire and woo a half-fae enchantress.

Henry Newbolt was the editor of the Monthly Review from October 1900 to September 1904.

Henry Newbolt was a member of the Athenaeum and the Coefficients dining club.

Henry Newbolt subsequently became Controller of Wireless and Cables at the Foreign Office.

Henry Newbolt was knighted in 1915 and was appointed Member of the Order of the Companions of Honour in 1922.

Henry Newbolt died at home in Campden Hill, Kensington, London, on 19 April 1938, aged 75.

Henry Newbolt is buried in the churchyard of St Mary's church on an island in the lake on the Orchardleigh Estate of the Duckworth family in Somerset.

Recordings were made of Henry Newbolt reading some of his own poems.

Welsh composer David John Thomas, known by his bardic name as Afan Thomas, composed a cantata based on Henry Newbolt's He Fell Among Thieves.