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"SIR FREDERICK WEDMORE (1844-1921), English art critic and man of letters ( see 28.466), was knighted in 1912. He published that year his Memories, a book of reminiscences, social and literary. He also published Painters and Painting (1913) and a novel, Brenda Walks On (1916). He died at Sevenoaks Feb. 25 1921. His daughter, MILLICENT WEDMORE (b. 1819), herself the author of two volumes of verse, helped him to edit during the World War Poems of the Love and Pride of England.