Hugh Evelyn Wortham, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Hugh Evelyn Wortham

Date of Birth: 07-May-1884

Date of Death: 09-Jul-1959

Profession: biographer, journalist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Hugh Evelyn Wortham (7 May 1884 - 9 July 1959), best known as H.
E.
Wortham was an English biographer, journalist, music critic and writer. Wortham was educated at King's College, Cambridge and received an M.A.
in 1921.
He worked as a foreign correspondent, editor and journalist in Egypt, 1909-1919.
From 1934 up until his death he wrote articles in the 'London Day by Day' column under the pseudonym 'Peterborough' in The Daily Telegraph.Wortham was the nephew of Oscar Browning.
In June, 1923 Browning sent a letter to Wortham requesting him to write a biography about his life.
In 1927, he authored a biography of Browning.
It was reprinted and revised in 1956 under the title Victorian Eton and Cambridge: Being the Life and Times of Oscar Browning.