ABSTRACT
Oswald Crawfurd (1834-1909) was the son of a diplomat and made his career in the Foreign Office, specializing in Portuguese affairs. In 1891, while British Consul, he witnessed the anti-British riots in Oporto and took early retirement. He wrote a number of novels, edited the New Quarterly and Chapman’s Magazine of Fiction and became a director of the publishing house Chapman and Hall. In an anthology of lyric poetry he included Donne’s poem ‘The Will’, on which he made the folowing note (Lyrical Verse from Elizabeth to Victoria, 1896, pp. 79-80 and 426).
