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Alfred Rayney Waller

1867 – 1922

English writer and editor

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Lived 1867 – 1922 (aged 54–55). Alfred Rayney Waller was a British journalist, translator, editor, writer and opinion journalist.

1904 edition of Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes edited by A. R. Waller Alfred Rayney Waller (1867, York – 1922) was an English journalist and man of letters, known as the co-editor-in-chief with A. W. Ward of The Cambridge History of English Literature.

A. R. Waller received an M.A. from Peterhouse, Cambridge. He worked from 1888 to 1902 as a journalist and literary editor in London. He was for a number of years Secretary to the Syndics of Cambridge University Press. He edited John Florio's Montaigne, 6 volumes, 1897. With Arnold Glover he edited the collected works of William Hazlitt, 13 volumes, 1902–1906. Waller translated Molière's plays, 8 volumes, 1902–1907. He also edited the works of Samuel Butler, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw, and Matthew Prior, 1904–1905.

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Important facts

Born
1867, York
Birth century
Died
1922, Cambridge
Education
Peterhouse
Employers
Cambridge University Press

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English writer and editor (1867-1922)

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Alfred Rayney Waller was born in 1867 in York.

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Alfred Rayney Waller died in 1922 in Cambridge.

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Alfred Rayney Waller was a journalist, translator, editor, writer and opinion journalist.

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Alfred Rayney Waller was British.

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