He married a singer, Alice Mary Wensley, and they had one daughter, Gertrude.
[citation needed] By profession he was a clerk in a soap works.
[2] As a poet he adopted the combined names of his mother and his wife as his pseudonym, Shapcott Wensley.
Among the composers he worked for were Edward Elgar and John Henry Maunder.
Many of his texts were written on commission of the publishing house Novello.