The New International Encyclopædia/Sladen, Douglas Brooke Wheelton

SLADEN, Douglas Brooke Wheelton (1856—). An English verse-writer and man of letters, born in London. Having studied at Cheltenham College and at Trinity College, Oxford, he went out to Australia (1879), where he became the first professor of history in the University of Sydney. His principal volumes of verse (ballads, epics, and dramas) are Frithjof and Ingeborg (1882); Poetry of Exiles (1883); A Summer Christmas (1884); In Cornwall and Across the Sea (1885); Edward the Black Prince, an epic drama, (1886); The Spanish Armada (1888). In fiction he wrote A Japanese Marriage (1895) and Trincolox and Other Stories (1898); in general literature, The Japs at Home (1892); On the Cars and Off (1895); Brittany for Britons (1896); and The Admiral, a defense of Nelson and Lady Hamilton (1898).