Theodore Watts-Dunton, from St Ives, Huntingdonshire, was an English poetry critic with major periodicals, and himself a poet. He is remembered particularly as the friend and minder of Algernon Charles Swinburne, whom he rescued from alcoholism and drug use and persuaded to continue writing.
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About this person
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1832 to 1914 · aged 81
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