Edmund Clerihew Bentley

Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956) was a popular English novelist and humorist of the early twentieth century and the inventor of the clerihew an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics. He died in 1956 in London at the age of 80. Will.

He died in 1956 in London at the age of 80. Phonographic recordings of his work "Recordings for the Blind" are heard in the movie Places in the Heart by the character Mr. G.