Stephen leacock biography

Canadian writer and economist

Stephen P. H. Butler LeacockFRSC (30 December 1869 – 28 March 1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist.

Stephen leacock life and works

Between the years 1915 and 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.^[1] He is known for his light humour along with criticisms of people's follies.^[2]

Early life

Stephen Leacock was born on 30 December 1869 in Swanmore,^[4] a village near Southampton in southern England.

He was the third of the eleven children born to (Walter) Peter Leacock (b.1834), who was born and grew up at Oak Hill on the Isle of Wight, an estate that his grandfather had purchased after returning from Madeira where his family had made a fortune out of plantations and Leacock's Madeira wine, founded in 1760.

Stephen's mother, Agnes, was born at Soberton, the youngest daughter by his second wife (Caroline Linton Palmer) of the Rev. Stephen Butler, of Bury Lod