Arthur St. John Adcock (17 January 1864 – 9 June 1930), was an English novelist and poet, remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies.
Adcock was born in London. He was a Fleet Street journalist for half a century, and editor of The Bookman. According to A. E. Waite who knew him, Adcock did all the work of the Bookman, nominally under its founder William Robertson Nicoll.
His daughter Marion St. John Webb (died 2 May 1930) was also an author.
Read more about Arthur St. John Adcock: Works, The Bookman Treasury of Living Poets (4th Edition 1931)
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