About Henry Sutherland Edwards
Lived 1828 – 1906 (aged 77). Henry Sutherland Edwards was a British writer, journalist, biographer, novelist and musicologist.
Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828–1906) was a British journalist.
Biography He was born in Hendon on 5 September 1827 , and educated in London and France. He was correspondent of The Times at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia, in the camp of the insurgents at Warsaw (1862–63), and at German army headquarters during the Franco-Prussian War.
In 1865 he took over the role of chief music critic on The Morning Post from Howard Glover and he was a regular contributor to The Pall Mall Gazette. He was the first editor of the weekly illustrated newspaper The Graphic.
He died at his home in London on 21 January 1906, and was buried at St. John's Cemetery in Woking. The Case of Reuben Malachi (1886) The Prima Donna: Her History and Surroundings from the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century (two volumes, 1888) Rossini and His School (1895) Personal Recollections (1900)
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British journalist and author (1828–1906)
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Henry Sutherland Edwards was born on 5 September 1828 in London, Hendon.
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Henry Sutherland Edwards died on 21 January 1906 in London.
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Henry Sutherland Edwards was a writer, journalist, biographer, novelist and musicologist.
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