Walter Frith

[3] Walter Frith, a son of the famous painter William Powell Frith, was educated at Harrow[4] and then at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he graduated B.A.

He was admitted to Inner Temple on 25 January 1876 and called to the Bar on 9 June 1880.

[2] A well-regarded man of letters, Frith was a member of the exclusive Athenaeum Club.

His literary output is mainly numerous melodramatic plays, and he was for many years the drama critic of Pall Mall.

[2] One of Walter Frith's sisters was Jane Ellen Panton.