Arthur Joseph Munby (1828–1910)

Diarist and civil servant. Called to the bar, 1855. Worked for the Ecclesiastical Commission, 1860–88. His posthumously published diary covered his daily life, topical events, his relationship with a working-class woman, Hannah Cullwick (whom he secretly married in 1873), his depictions of different kinds of working women, his literary friendships, and his involvement in Christian socialism through the Working Men’s College. A close friend of Richard Buckley Litchfield.