One pound of British beef, and then
What Mr. Swiveller called a "modest quencher";
That home-returning, I may "soothly say,"
"Fate cannot touch me: I have dined to-day."
(Beer, 117-120)
Charles Stuart Calverley, born on December 22, 1831, at Martley, Worcestershire, was educated at Marlborough College, Harrow, Oxford, and Cambridge, and was elected a fellow of Christ's College and appointed a lecturer in Classics in 1857. His Verses and Translations (1862), and later translations of Theocritus and Virgil, stem from his academic research. In 1863 he married his cousin Ellen and began to study law at the Inner Temple. Shortly after being called to the Bar in 1865, Calverley had a skating accident that was to put an end to his career. He continued to write light verse, publishing poems in journals, and then collecting them in Fly Leaves in 1872. He lived on, sickly, until his death from Bright's disease in 1884, and was survived by his wife and two children. His Literary Remains came out posthumously in 1865.
Given name: Charles Stuart
Family name: Calverley
Birth date: 22 December 1831
Death date: 17 February 1884
Nationality: English
Family relations
father: Henry Blayds
wife: Ellen Calverley
Languages
English
Latin
Greek
Education
Private tutors
Harrow: 9 September 1846
Balliol College, Oxford: 25 November 1850 to 1852
Christ's College, Cambridge: 1852
Law to 1865
Marlborough College: 1846 to 1846
Honours
Balliol scholarship: 1850
Oxford chancellor's prize: 1851
Camden medal: 1853
Craven scholarship: 1854
Browne medal (Greek ode): 1855
Camden medal: 1855
Member's prize (Latin essay): 1856
Fellow of Christ's College: 1858
Literary period: Victorian
Occupation: Lawyer: 1865
Residences
17 Devonshire Terrace, Hyde Park, London to 1884
Worcestershire: 1831
Cambridge: 1852
Illnesses
Depression
Bright's disease
Concussion: 1866
Cause of death: Bright's disease
Buried at: Folkstone cemetery
First RPO edition: 1998