William Kirkpatrick Magee (16 January 1868 – 9 May 1961), was an Irish author, editor, and librarian, who as an essayist and poet adopted the pen-name of John Eglinton.
[2] His parents had been married at St Mary's Church, Dublin, on 5 April 1860, when their fathers' names were given as William G. Kirkpatrick and Henry Bell Magee.
He entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1887, and four times won the Vice-Chancellor's prize for composition in English, Greek, or Latin,[1] for verse in 1889 and again in 1890, and for prose in 1892 and 1893.
As an author, Magee was mostly an essayist, with work appearing under the name of John Eglinton around the turn of the century in several publications, including the New Ireland Review, Shanachie, and the Unionist Daily Express of Dublin.
He continued to write on Irish literature, and in 1937 his biography A memoir of AE, George William Russell, was published in London.