Author: Francis Usher Waite
Author: Francis Usher Waite (1846–1881)
Alternate Name(s): Frank Usher (pseudonym)
Biography: Francis Usher Waite was born on 24 September 1846 in London, the eldest son of surgeon George Derby Waite and his wife Isabella Trotter. He attended Balliol College, Oxford but it is unclear if he took a degree. While in Oxford, he was commission in the volunteer rifles. Waite took to traveling and he would publish three travel books about Norway. In 1874, he married Charlotte Gent and the couple had two daughters. After his marriage, Waite owned a brewery in Nottingham where he lived at Beeston. His duties must have been light since he began writing fiction, publishing three novels under the rather transparent pseudonym "Frank Usher." Unfortunately, he died after a short but severe illness on 10 April 1881 in Brighton.
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References: British Census (1851); Hour (8 September 1874); London Evening Standard (16 April 1881)
Fiction Titles:
- The Three Oxonians. 3 vol. London: Hurst and Blackett, 1873.
- A Strange Love. 3 vol. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1874.
- The Warnaghs: A Romance of the Arctic Ocean. 3 vol. London: Tinsley Brothers, 1875.