Henry B. Wheatley

Many people of consequence attended these gatherings, including Alfred Lyttelton , Sydney Buxton , the Hon. William Peel , George Duckworth , Lord Brownlow , Henry Wheatley , Sir Donald Mackenzie Wallace and the Duke and Duchess of Bedford .

In the late nineteenth century H. B. Wheatley suggested in Samuel Halkett and John Laing 's A Dictionary of the Anonymous and Pseudonymous Literature of Great Britain that Ephelia was somebody called Joan Phillips. This...