OWEN

See also:

• OWEN SEAMAN (1861– )

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