Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
Monochrome head-and-left-shoulder photo portrait of 50-year-old Lewis
Bentley in 1913
Born(1875-07-10)10 July 1875
London, England
Died30 March 1956(1956-03-30) (aged 80)
London, England
OccupationNovelist, humorist, poet
EducationMerton College, Oxford
GenreBiography, science fiction, poetry
Notable worksTrent's Last Case
ChildrenNicolas Bentley
RelativesJohn Edmund Bentley
(father)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist, and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.


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