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  • William Ernest Henley (1849-1903), an influential editor, critic and poet, had a role in the late-Victorian period similar to that of Dr Samuel Johnson in the late eighteenth century. He was born in Gloucester as the eldest of a family of six (five sons and a daughter). His father, William Henley (1826-1868), a bookseller and stationer, died in poverty leaving his wife and young children with debts. His mother, Mary Morgan, descended from the family of the poet and critic Joseph Warton (1722-1800). One of his brothers, Edward John became a talented actor and another, Anthony Warton, was a landscape painter. Between 1861 and 1867 Henley attended the Crypt Crammar School at Gloucester. Its headmaster, Thomas Edward Brown (1830-1897), a noted poet and scholar, exerted a profound influence on the young Henley, lending him books and encouraging him to study literature. In 186