New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-01-01
THE NEW POET LAUREATE.
HE is ALFRED AUSTIN. WHO is ALSO A
NOVELIST. CRITIC AND JOURNALIST.
HER MAJESTY ELEvATEs TO THE PEERAGE SIR
FREDERICK LEIGHTON AND HENRY
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p. CREASE KNIGHTEY.


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London Dec 31-The Queen has appointed
Alfred Austin Poet Laureate, an office which has
been vacant since the death of Lord Tennyson
on October 6. 1892.
Her Majesty in accordance with the usual
custom of comforting honors on the occasion
Of the New Year, has also elevated to the peer
age Sir Frederick Leighton. president OF the
Royal Academy, and Henry Hucls Gibbs. for
merIy member of the House Of Commons and
late director Of the Bank Of England. and has
knighted the Hon. H. =. p. Crease Senior
Puisne Judge Of British Columbia.
Henry II. Gibbs has been large contributor TO
the purse of the Conservative party.
Alfred Austin is a poet. critic. novelist and jour
naIlst. He, was born at Headingley, near Leeds
May 80 1885. His father was merchant and mag
istrate of the borough OF Leeds. and his mother
was the sister of Joseph Locke. the eminent civil
engineer and VI. p. for the borough Of Honiton' or
which he was lord Of the manor. Both his parents
being Roman Catholics he was sent TO Stonyhurst
College and afterward to st. Mays College. Oscott
From Oscott he took his degree at the University
of London In 1853. and in 1881 he was called to the
bar Of the Inner Temple.
The publication although anonymously OF poem
entitled .'Randolph" when he was eighteen showed
the bent Of his disposition. and it may be SAID on
the authority Of Mr.. Austin himself that he
ostensipy embraced the study of the law only In
Difference to the wishes OF his parents. and from
hts earliest years was imbued with the desire and
determination TO devote his life mainly 10 ltera-
ture Tho expression OF this resolve is found in
novel written and published while he was yet a
on the death Of his father in 1851. he quilted
the northern Circuit and went TO- ray ass mrs,
Satire appearcd In 1861. third and revised
edition of THE Season appeared in ls5s
His other poctcal productions are: j ne human
1876 and again finally revised IN . ne ra'e, or
Death" 1873: "Madonna's emo, 1873; The I9wer
of Babel" a drama. ~; Leszko tne Bastard; A
Tale OF Polish Grief 1871 ',Savonarola a trag-
edy 1851 ''Soliloquies IN song ~ NE ,ra,e OF Ihe
Convent" Loves Wldowhood and 0ther POEMS;
usbri between 1881 and 1880 IL has published
three novcls-'Fivc Years Of IT," lS5s An Arts
Proof" lsc4. and Won i'y Head 1850, also Inc
BAR" 1870 and "a Vlnication OF Lord Byron.
1880 occas Toned by Mrs Stoves article. The Story
OF Lord Byrons Life. ~ ,,,. 49,,
for THE Quarterly Review. During the sittings
~ the Oecumenical Council Of the Vatican, he
represented THE standard AZ Rome and he was
special respondent Of that journal NJ the heau-
nuartcrs @. the King OF Prussia In the Franco
German War HIS political writings lnc ,drs
Knssia hef3re EGroRe Bmrgsran Horrors
and "Englani's Policy and Peril. letter to the
Ear, - Traconsdoli lS77 In 1873. in conjunction
wlrh " j. Courthopc. he founded The National
m. summer Of lyt3 In 1892 Messrs. Macmillan
issued A collected edition OF his poems In six vol
umes since which time ;hey have published ror-
am other Poems" and a prose work entitled The
Garden That Love-