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UK author (1873–1923)

William Caine (28 August 1873 – 5 September 1925) was a British author of stories and humorous novels, and also an enthusiastic angler and cartoonist.^[1]

Biography

He was born in Liverpool, the son of politician William Sproston Caine and Alice Brown Caine, daughter of the Rev.

Hugh Stowell Brown.

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He was educated at Manor House School in Clapham, Westminster School, St Andrews University and Balliol College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford he worked as a barrister, but after seven years abandoned that profession for writing.

He married harpist Edith Gordon Walker,^[2] daughter of Farmer R. Walker of Boston, Massachusetts, and they lived at 16 The Pryors, East Heath Road, London NW3. He was a member of the Reform Club.^[3]

Caine was a keen angler, friendly with fellow angler-author Hugh Tempest Sheringham (1876-1930),^[4] and an artist, cartoonist and illustrator, friendly with and influ