The Poetry Of Owen Seaman

Owen Seaman was born in Shrewsbury on September 18th, 1861. He was educated at Shrewsbury school and Clare College Cambridge. After graduating he was a school master and then a professor of literature. In 1894 his parody of Kipling ‘Rhyme Of The Kipperling’ was published in Punch magazine and that same year he published a volume of parodies - ‘Horace At Cambridge’ In 1897 he became a barrister at Inner Temple but was invited to join the staff at Punch, which he joined, rising to assistant editor