Walter Frith (29 July 1856, London – 25 July 1941,

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) was an English barrister, author, and drama critic. Walter Frith, a son of the famous painter

William Powell Frith William Powell Frith (9 January 1819 – 2 November 1909) was an English painter specialising in genre subjects and panoramic narrative works of life in the Victorian era. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1853, presenting ''The Slee ...

, was educated at

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and then at

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, where he graduated B.A. 1879, LL.B. 1879, and M.A. 1882. He was admitted to

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on 25 January 1876 and

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on 9 June 1880. He wrote fourteen plays and three novels. In 1898 he married Maud Law, widow of Rev. W. Law. One of Walter Frith's sisters was

Jane Ellen Panton Jane Ellen Panton, born Jane Ellen Frith (18 October 1847 – 13 May 1923) was an English writer. Life Jane Ellen Frith was born in Regent's Park in 1847. Her father, William Powell Frith was a successful painter and Panton reports that he sho ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Frith, Walter 1856 births 1941 deaths People educated at Harrow School Alumni of Trinity Hall, Cambridge English male dramatists and playwrights English male novelists