Author: Herbert Glyn
Author: Herbert Glyn (1818–1880)
Alternate Name(s): (pseudonym); Edwin William Wynne Pettitt (legal)
Biography: Edwin William Wynne Pettitt was born on 16 February 1818 in Birmingham, the son of Charles Pettitt and his wife Sarah. Civil engineer. He trained and worked as a civil engineer. Under the pseudonym "Herbert Glyn" he wrote two novels: The Cotton Lord (1862) and Uncle Crotty's Relations (1863). He married twice: first to Sarah Aston and second to Lucy Jane Hart. He died on 8 February 1880 in Birmingham.
References: Boase; Courier and West-End Advertiser (14 February 1880)
Fiction Titles:
- The Cotton Lord. 2 vol. London: Smith, Elder, 1862.
- Uncle Crotty's Relations. 2 vol. London: Smith, Elder, 1863.