1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Abercrombie, Lascelles

ABERCROMBIE, LANCELLES (1881–), English poet, was born at Ashlon-upon-Mersey, Ches., Jan. 9 1881. and educated at Malvern and Victoria University. Manchester, where he studied science. His first work, Interludes and Poems, appeared in 1908, and his other works include: Mary and the Bramble (1919); The Sale of St Thomas (1911); Emblems of Love (1912); Deborah (I912); Speculative Dialogues (1913) and The Epic (1914), besides a critical study of Thomas Hardy (1912). He was in 1919 appointed lecturer in Poetry at the university at Liverpool.