BINYON, LAURENCE

(1869), English author and Deputy Keeper in the British Museum, in charge of subdepartment of Oriental prints and drawings, was born in Lancaster, England. He was educated at St. Paul’s School and at Oxford, where in 1890 he won the Newdigate Prize. He entered the service of the British Museum in the Department of Printed Books, and two years later was transferred to the Deartment of Prints and Drawings, later ecoming a istant keeper. In 1912 and 1914 he was a Lowell lecturer in the United States. He is the author numerous books and poems, amongst them being The Praise of Life, Western Flanders, Court Painters of the Grand Mogul, ete.