Edward R. Home-Gall

Edward R. Home-Gall was the son of writer William Benjamin Home-Gall, also a writer. William, born in Hong Kong in 1861, had a problematic schooling and travelled widely in America before returning to the UK where he worked as a coachman and an unsuccessful farmer. He was more successful as an author, publishing his first novel in 1892 and, by the late 1890s, had established himself as a popular