Arthur St John Adcock (17 January 1864 in London – 9 June 1930 in Richmond) was an English novelist and poet, known as A. St John Adcock or St John Adcock. He is remembered for his discovery of the then-unknown poet W. H. Davies. His daughters, Marion St John Webb and Almey St John Adcock, were also writers. Biography Arthur St John Adcock was born on 17 January 1864 in London. He was a Fleet Street journalist for half a century, as an assiduous freelance writer. He worked initially as a law office clerk, becoming a full-time writer in 1893. Adcock built up a literary career by unrelenting efforts in circulating his manuscripts, initially also working part-time as an assistant editor on a trade journal. He was a founder member in 1901 of Paul Henry's literary and performing club, with Robert Lynd, Frank Rutter and others. The acting editor of The Bookman from 1908, Adcock, according to A. E. Waite who knew him, did all the work of the Bookman, nominally under its founder William Robertson Nicoll. In 1923, he became its official editor. As an influential critic, Adcock has been classed with conservatives such as Hilaire Belloc, Edmund Gosse, Henry Newbolt, E. B. Osborn and Arthur Waugh. Adcock married Marion Taylor in 1887, and they settled in Hampstead. Their daughters Marion St John Webb (1888-1930) and Almey St John Adcock (1894–1986), became writers. He died on 9 June 1930 in Richmond. Adcock's papers are held by the Bodleian Library. Works Adcock is considered one of the "Cockney school novelists" (not the earlier Cockney School poets), a group influenced by Charles Dickens and including also Henry Nevinson, Edwin Pugh, and William Pett Ridge. East End Idylls (1897), about the London slums, began an early trilogy, and had an introduction by the Christian Socialist James Granville Adderley, a friend. It drew on Arthur Morrison. Adcock published: An Unfinished Martyrdom (1894) Beyond Atonement (1896) East End Idylls (1897) The Consecration of Hetty Fleet (1898) In The Image of God (1898) In The Wake of the War (1900) Songs of the War (1900) The Luck of Private Foster: A Romance of Love and War (1900) From a London Garden (1903) More Than Money (1903) In Fear of Man (1904) London Etchings (1904) Admissions And Asides (1905) Love in London (1906) London From The Top of A 'Bus (1906) The Shadow Show (1907) The