His father owned an estate in Demerara, but his income was reduced by the abolition of slavery.
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After contributing during 1867 to the Imperial Review, a short-lived conservative paper edited by Henry Cecil Raikes, he began writing for The Times and for Blackwood's Magazine, and also joined John Douglas Cook's staff on the, Saturday Review.
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