Alister McAllister

Born in Dublin, Ireland; Alister McAllister became chief clerk in the National University, 1908-14; also acted as librarian; began writing plays under pseud. Henry Alexander, issuing Irene Wycherly (1906; var. 1907); also At the Barn (1912), with Marie Tempest, as well as others less successful; joined the British Army in 1914; wounded twice in machine-gun corps; settled in England after the First World War; wrote novels as Anthony Wharton, viz., The Man on the Hill (1923), dealing with society under …