Richard Whiteing

[1][citation needed] For seven years in his youth Whiteing was apprenticed to Benjamin Wyon as a medalist and seal-engraver;[1] meanwhile he was also educating himself on the side.

He made his debut with a series of papers in the Evening Star in 1866, printed separately in the next year as Mr Sprouts, His Opinions.

He became leader-writer and correspondent on the Morning Star, and was subsequently on the staff of the Manchester Guardian, the New York World, and for many years the Daily News, resigning from the last-named paper in 1899.

[citation needed] Whiteing's autobiography, My Harvest, written in 1915, led many to believe he was an only child, whose mother had died in the 1840s when he was quite young.

Fitzgerald noted that in the 1861 London census Whiteing, then 20 years old, was listed as living with both of his parents and his younger brother George.

[citation needed] After Whiteing's separation from Helen, he lived for many years with journalist and children's author Alice Corkran.