Ernest Radford

[2] He was the son of George David Radford, a draper in Plymouth; the writer Ada Wallas, was his sister.

[8] He published poems in 1884 in the journal Progress, edited by Edward Aveling, with Eleanor Marx and his future wife Caroline Maitland.

[16] Ernest Rhys, however, a good friend of Radford's, described him as a "casual disciple" of Morris, also a wit, effective speaker, and reviewer for the Pall Mall Gazette.

[18] Radford was a close friend of George Bernard Shaw from 1885 for a number of years; they were introduced by William Archer.

[18] As secretary convening the Rhymers' Club, Radford used his position in 1891 to invite the publisher Elkin Mathews.

[23] From 1892 Radford suffered from mental illness, after a breakdown in which he threatened to shoot an editor who had rejected his work.