Arthur Inkersley
English journalist
Arthur Inkersley (born 5 September 1855) was an English journalist and writer active in the United States. He contributed to the Scientific American and other periodicals.
Life
The only son of Thomas Teale Inkersley of Birmingham, a master in chancery, he was educated at King Edward's School, Birmingham. He matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford in 1873 at age 18, graduating B.A. in 1878. He coxed the college's rowing eight. He then taught from 1884 at St Peter's Collegiate School, Adelaide in Australia, where his Oxford rowing experience was considered advantageous; and at Auckland College and Grammar School, New Zealand, resigning from the teaching staff in 1887.
Inkersley was registered at the Hastings College of Law of the University of California in 1888–9, with a college address in Hyde Street, San Francisco; and is recorded in the 1910 Directory of Graduates of the University of California as a journalist living on 10th Street in Oakland, of Oxford, and class of 1890. He graduated Phi Delta Phi, and its catalogue of 1897 mentions that he tutored in law and classics, and Lippincott's Monthly Magazine and the California Illustrated Magazine as periodicals for which he wrote.
Works
Inkersley wrote in Outing vol. XXV (1894–95) on San Francisco's Olympic Club and as a sports reporter on rowing, yachting, college football and track and field.
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