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OWEN SEAMAN (1861– )

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 543 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OWEN See also:SEAMAN (1861– )  , See also:English humorist and author, was educated at See also:Shrewsbury school and See also:Clare See also:College, See also:Cambridge, where he took a first-class in the classical tripos in 1883; in the next See also:year he became a See also:master at Rossall school; and in 1890 he was appointed See also:professor of literature at the See also:Durham College of See also:Science, See also:Newcastle-on-See also:Tyne . He was called to the See also:bar at the Inner See also:Temple in 1897 . He was introduced to See also:Punch in 1894, with his " See also:Rhyme of the Kipperling," a See also:parody of Rudyard See also:Kipling's " Rhyme of the Three Sealers." He also wrote for The See also:National Observer and The See also:World . In 1894 he published a See also:volume of parodies which is a classic of its See also:kind, See also:Horace at Cambridge, followed by The See also:Battle of the Bays (1896), In Cap and Bells (1899), Borrowed Plumes (1902), A See also:Harvest of See also:Chaff (1904) . He joined the See also:staff of Punch in 1897, and shortly afterwards became assistant-editor, succeeding See also:Sir F . C . See also:Burnand as editor in 1906 .

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