Wilfred Lewis Hanchant

Born: 1901.

Died: 1978.

Wilfred Lewis Hanchant was the curator of a museum in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. He was the editor of Arts and Crafts, a short-lived art journal. He is also the author of The Newgate Garland; or Flowers of Hemp (1932), a collection concerned with slang and "canting phrases." He also edited a book on antiques, published collections of poetry by Thomas Haynes Bayly, speeches by British Prime Ministers, and short stories by various writers. His own short stories appeared in a magazine called Lilliput between 1944 and 1951.