# Victor Plarr

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'''Victor Gustave Plarr''' (21 June 1863 – 28 January 1929) was an English poet; he is probably best known for the poem ''Epitaphium Citharistriae''.

==Life==
He was born near [Strasbourg](/source/Strasbourg), France, of a French father from [Alsace](/source/Alsace), Gustave Plarr, and an English mother, Mary Jane Tomkins, third daughter of the banker Samuel Tomkins.<ref>{{Who's Who|title=Plarr, Victor Gustave|id=U215581|access-date=4 December 2021}}</ref> He was brought up in Scotland and England after his family moved at the time of the [Franco-Prussian War](/source/Franco-Prussian_War). He was educated at [Madras College](/source/Madras_College), St Andrews and [Tonbridge School](/source/Tonbridge_School). He matriculated at the University of Oxford in 1882. He went on to read history at [Worcester College](/source/Worcester_College%2C_Oxford), graduating B.A. in 1886.<ref>{{alox2|title=Plarr, Victor Gustavus}}</ref>

Plarr worked as a librarian, first (from 1890) at [King's College London](/source/King's_College_London), then at the [Royal College of Surgeons of England](/source/Royal_College_of_Surgeons_of_England) from 1897 until his death. The following year, the first two volumes of ''Lives of the [Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons](/source/Fellowship_of_the_Royal_College_of_Surgeons)'' were published under the editorship of [D'Arcy Power](/source/D'Arcy_Power). Often known as ''[Plarr's Lives of the Fellows](/source/Plarr's_Lives_of_the_Fellows)'', the biographies of the original 300 fellows are considered an early social history of English medicine.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.historyofmedicine.com/id/7850|title=History of Medicine|last=|first=|date=|website=www.historyofmedicine.com|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=16 June 2019}}</ref>

In 1891 Plarr edited the 13th edition of ''Men of the Time'', changing its title to ''Men and Women of the Time''.<ref>Alison Booth (2004) ''How to Make it as a Woman'', page 331, [University of Chicago Press](/source/University_of_Chicago_Press) {{ISBN|0226065464}}</ref>

Plarr was a founding member of the [Rhymers' Club](/source/Rhymers'_Club). A generally uncongenial figure, he was befriended in 1909 by [Ezra Pound](/source/Ezra_Pound), who enjoyed Plarr's tales of the "decadent nineties".

==Works==
*''In the Dorian Mood'' (1896)
*''A School History of Middlesex including London'' (1905) (with Francis W. Walton)
*''The Tragedy of Asgard'' (1905)
*''Ernest Dowson 1888-1897'' (1914)
*[http://livesonline.rcseng.ac.uk/ ''Lives of the Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons''] (1930)

== External links ==

* Archive material at [https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/439587/letter_from_plarr_victor_to_jo Leeds University Library]

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