Alfred Henry Miles

Alfred Henry Miles (26 February 1848 – 30 October 1929) was a prolific Victorian-era English writer – including as an anthologist, children's writer, editor, journalist, and poet – as well as a composer and lecturer.

Issued as a volume in The Idle Hour Series, London: Hutchinson, [1891]).

He was Guardian of the Poor for six years and a member of the London Borough of Lewisham from 1904 to 1906.

He was editor of the Fifty-Two Library, a series of children's adventure stories published by Hutchinson & Co., London in the 19th century.

Miles's poetry is unashamedly chauvinistic and strongly reminiscent of Rudyard Kipling.