Arthur Windsor
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Born | Arthur Lloyd Windsor c. 1832 The Argus and The Age |
Arthur Lloyd Windsor (c. 1832 – 20 January 1913) was an Australian journalist noted for his work on
Biography
Windsor came from a Canadian family, owners of a sugar plantation in the West Indies. He was born at sea on a voyage to Barbados, the son of Henry George Windsor and his wife, Clara Windsor. He was baptised in November 1832 in Saint Michael, Barbados.[1] His father was a slaveholder; he received £318 in compensation for 14 slaves he owned in Barbados, after the passage of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.[2] Windsor's father died when he was five years old, and when he was about eight he was sent to school at Ottery, St Mary, Devonshire. He left school at 17, lived at Clifton and did some writing for the London press. He then returned to Barbados and for about 18 months taught at Codrington College. About the end of 1855 he went to Montreal and later to Glasgow. He worked as an army coach and also contributed to leading reviews; he had articles on Defoe and on Montaigne in the British Quarterly Review, in 1858. A collection of his articles was published in 1860, Ethica: or Characteristics of Men, Manners and Books.
He was appointed editor of the
References
- ^ Caribbean, Select Births and Baptisms, 1590-1928
- ^ CJ Coventry, "Links in the Chain: British slavery, Victoria and South Australia" Before/Now 1(1) (2019), p. 32, https://hcommons.org/deposits/objects/hc:23672/datastreams/CONTENT/content
- Serle, Percival (1949). "Windsor, Arthur Lloyd". Dictionary of Australian Biography. Sydney: Angus & Robertson.
External links
- Works by or about Arthur Windsor at Wikisource