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Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins was born on 9th February 1863 in Clapton, London.

He was educated at St John's School, Leatherhead, Marlborough College and Balliol College, Oxford. Hope trained as a lawyer and barrister and was called to the Bar by the Middle Temple in 1887. Despite what was thought to be a promising legal career he had literary ambitions and wrote in his spare time.

His early works appeared in various periodicals of the day but for his first book `A Man of Mark' (1890), with no pu...