Mr Robert Peel Glanville Blatchford (17 March 1851–17 December 1943)

British author and journalist. Born in Maidstone, England to theatrical parents. He was apprentice to a brush maker in Halifax but after six years but ran away to London and joined the army (103rd Regiment). Seeking a greater wage he began to write professionally in 1883. Blatchford wrote for the Sunday Chronicle under the pen-name "Nunquam" and was Editor of The Clarion a socialist newspaper. After the death of his wife he became a believer in Spiritualism. He himself died of influenza at home in Horsham, England.