CD-ROM Edition No illustrations, not an audio CD, not a DVD, produced in a Microsoft Word Compatible format for reading, printing or research. Charles Whibley (1859-1930) was an English literary journalist and author. He was educated at Bristol Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. As a writer on Blackwood's Magazine, he was a prominent conservative columnist, as well as an influential literary figure, recruited by its editor William Blackwood III. He was a persistent critic of the system of state education. In literature and the arts, his views were progressive. He supported James McNeill Whistler (they had married sisters. He also made the recommendation of T. S. Eliot to Geoffrey Faber, that resulted in Eliot's position at Faber and Faber. He was a friend of Marcel Schwob and was a witness at his wedding to Marguerite Moreno in England on 12 September 1900.