Barrister, reporter. Student at Cambridge. Admitted at Middle Temple, 1863; called to the bar, 1866. Parliamentary reporter for the Morning Post; from 1886, official reporter in Court of Probate and Divorce; chief of Times Parliamentary staff.

In Leycester's contribution, 'Siamese Embassy in the Seventeenth Century', the reference to the Siamese custom of displaying gifts on the day of audience with royalty, "as was the case at Windsor, the other day", implies that the writer was perhaps present at the audience given to the ambassadors by the Queen. (Henry Vizetelly, who was present, gives an account of the audience and of other circumstances connected with the ambassadors' visit, Glances Back through Seventy Years, 1, 427-431).

Author: Anne Lohrli; © University of Toronto Press, 1971.