Sir Gilbert Parker

Gilbert Parker (1862-1932), born at Camden East, in Addington County, Ontario, the son of a former officer, taught at the Belleville institution for the deaf in 1882, then gave lectures at Trinity College, Toronto. He left for Australia in 1886, where he was assistant editor of the Sydney Morning Herald, then settled in London around 1890 and lived by his pen. A Conservative member of parliament for Gravesend from 1900 to 1918, knighted in 1902 and made a baronet in 1915, he directed British propaganda to the United States during the war.

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• Short storiesThe Lane that Had No TurningSir Gilbert Parker · 1900LiteraturePublic domain