Arthur St. John Adcock Biography

an English novelist and poet, remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies.

Adcock 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.