Augustus Charles Bickley

Augustus Charles Bickley (1857–1902) was an English journalist and author.

Life

Born in Birmingham, he was the youngest son of Francis Bickley of Carlisle, and brother of Francis Bridges Bickley of the British Museum.[1][2][3] Their father died in London, in 1865;[4] as a surgeon and dentist in Carlisle, he had married Harriet Bridges of Lichfield in 1851.[5]

Bickley passed the preliminary examination for Civil Service clerks in 1876.[6] A few years later he was working as a journalist in London.[1]

Works

Bickley wrote over 80 articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, to 1891.[7] He encountered criticism, with his biography of Richard Carpenter (died c.1670) called too close to one written in Biographia Britannia.[8] Other works included:

• Archibald Campbell Tait: A Sketch of the Public Life of the Late Archbishop of Canterbury (1882)
• George Fox and the Early Quakers (1884)
• Bibliographical Notes (1889), editor, vol. IX in The Gentleman's Magazine Library[9]
• Midst Surrey Hills: A Rural Story (1890), novel
• Handfasted (1890), novel, with George S. Curryer[10]

The Barn at Beccles (1891) was a play co-written with George Hughes.[11]

Family

Bickley married Anna Louisa Ball of Knaphill, Surrey at Woking, on 14 June 1887.[2]

Notes

1. "Augustus Charles Bickley, Author Information At the Circulating Library". Retrieved 11 May 2016.
2. "Marriages". Hampshire Chronicle. 18 June 1887. p. 5. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
3. Norman Penney (1904). The Journal of the Friends' Historical Society. Headley Brothers. p. 120.
4. "Deaths". Carlisle Patriot. 24 June 1865. p. 8. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
5. "Marriages". Derbyshire Courier. 23 August 1851. p. 3. Retrieved 11 May 2016 – via British Newspaper Archive.
6. "No. 24347". The London Gazette. 21 July 1876. p. 4107.
7. s:Author:Augustus Charles Bickley
8. Arthur Cayley Headlam (1889). The Church Quarterly Review. S.P.C.K. p. 367.
9. Sir William Osler; Osler Library (1969). Bibliotheca Osleriana: A Catalogue of Books Illustrating the History of Medicine and Science. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 602. ISBN 978-0-7735-9050-2.
10. Augustus Charles Bickley; George S. Curryer (1890). Handfasted. [A Novel.].
11. A History of Late nineteenth Centruty Drama 1850–1900. Vol. II. CUP Archive. p. 430. ISBN 978-1-00-128700-3.

External links

• Online Books page