The Resume

(February 25, 1859-February 3, 1892)
Born in London, United Kingdom
Fellow of King's College, Cambridge (1885-92)
Wrote the poetry collections 'Lapsus Calami' (1891) and 'Quo Musa Tendis' (1891)
Cousin of Virginia Woolf

Why he might be annoying:

Several of his poems are misogynistic.
He allegedly fell in love with Prince Albert Victor, son of the Prince of Wales, while tutoring him at Cambridge.
He starved himself to death while committed to a mental asylum.
He was accused of being Jack the Ripper.

Why he might not be annoying:

He was elected president of the Cambridge Union debating society.
He was struck on the head by the sail of a windmill (1886), which may have led to his later mental problems.
Several investigators dismiss him as a Ripper suspect on the grounds that he would not have had enough time to return to Cambridge to deliver lectures the mornings after the murders.

Credit: C. Fishel

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 19th Century Poets
• C. Fishel's Profiles [Series 26]
• Eminent Victorians
• I Attended Cambridge
• I Attended Eton
• I Committed Suicide
• I Died in My 30s (Ranked: 32)
• I Was Hot For My Student
• Jack the Ripper Suspects
• Look at My Book Cover
• Poets
• Profiles 28001-28250 (Ranked: 28063)

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 5 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 14 Votes: 85.71% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 43 Votes: 55.81% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 8 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 5 Votes: 80.0% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 11 Votes: 54.55% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 61.54% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 5 Votes: 60.0% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 16 Votes: 68.75% Annoying