Henry Sutherland Edwards
In The Sketch, 6 March 1901
Born(1928-09-05)5 September 1928
Hendon, London, England
Died21 January 1906(1906-01-21) (aged 77)
London, England
OccupationJournalist

Henry Sutherland Edwards (1828–1906) was a British journalist.

Biography

He was born in Hendon on 5 September 1828, and educated in London and France.[1] 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.[2]

He died at his home in London on 21 January 1906, and was buried at St. John's Cemetery in Woking.[1]

Selected publications

  • The Russians at Home (1861)
  • The Polish Captivity: An Account of the Present Position of the Poles in the Kingdom of Poland, and in the Polish Provinces of Austria, Prussia, and Russia (1863)
  • The Life of Rossini (1869)
  • The Germans in France (1874)
  • The Russians at Home and the Russians Abroad (1879, Vol. 1 is an abridgment of the 1861 book Russians at Home. Vol. 2 deals with political issues.)
  • The Lyrical Drama: Essays on Subjects, Composers, & Executants of Modern Opera (1881)[3]
  • 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)
  • Sir William White, K.C.B., K.C.M.G.: For Six Years Ambassador to Constantinople: His Life and Correspondence. London: John Murray. 1902. Retrieved 25 September 2018 – via Internet Archive.

References

  1. 1 2 Kaul, Chandrika. "Edwards, Henry Sutherland". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/32980. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ↑ Zicari, M. 'Music Journalism in London: The Late 1870s and 1880s', from Verdi in Victorian London (2016)
  3. ↑ "Review of The Lyrical Drama by H. Sutherland Edwards". Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art. 52 (1341): 54–55. 9 July 1881.

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