Adams, Francis, 1862-1893

found: His Poetical works of Francis W.L. Adams, 1887:t.p. (Francis W.L. Adams) [info. fr. InU]

found: OCLC, May 9, 2019(access points: Adams, Francis William Lauderdale; Adams, Francis William Lauderdale, 1862-1893; usage: Francis Adams; Francis W.L. Adams; Francis William Adams; Francis William L. Adams)

found: Wikipedia, May 9, 2019(Francis William Lauderdale Adams (27 September 1862 - 4 September 1893) was an essayist, poet, dramatist, novelist and journalist who produced a large volume of work in his short life; born in Malta; in 1884 he married and migrated to Australia, where he started work as a tutor on a station at Jerilderie, New South Wales, but soon moved on to Sydney and then Queensland, dedicating himself to writing; returned to England in early 1890; shot himself dead at a boarding house in Margate, England)

found: Australian dictionary of biography, via WWW, May 9, 2019(Adams, Francis William (1862-1893). Francis William Lauderdale Adams (1862-1893), poet, novelist, commentator and radical, was born on 27 September 1862 in Malta, son of Andrew Leith Adams, army surgeon and later professor in the natural sciences at Dublin and Cork, and his wife Bertha Jane, née Grundy, who became a well-known novelist. After some years in Canada and Ireland, from about 8 Adams attended a number of schools in the English Midlands, and then was for three years at St Augustine's, Blackheath. In 1876 he was enrolled at Shrewsbury School (the 'Glastonbury' of his novel, A Child of the Age) under the surname Leith-Adams. Leaving in 1879 he went to Paris to study French with a view to entering the diplomatic service. There he spent some two years and drafted his first novel; married in London in July 1884. On medical advice he took ship to Melbourne, where he arrived in November; on 4 September 1893 at Margate he killed himself) - http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/adams-francis-william-2865