J. Cuming Walters

Walters was born in Birmingham and was educated at King Edward's School.^[1] He began working for the Birmingham Gazette at the age of 17 and joined the sub-editorial staff. He remained working for the Birmingham Gazette for 20 years where he was promoted as lead writer and assistant editor under Alexander W. Still.^[1] He was also the editor of Weekly Mercury. He moved to Manchester in 1903 to become editor of the Evening Chronicle.^[1] From 1906 to 1932 he was editor of Manchester City News.^[2]

Walters was awarded an M.A. by the University of Manchester for his thesis "William Hazlitt and the Early Essayists".^[1] He wrote on numerous subjects including English topography, social housing and King Arthur.^[2] Walters was president of the Dickens Fellowship from 1910 to 1911.^[1][3] He edited and wrote works on Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson and Marie Corelli.^[2] He was active in the Lancashire Shakespeare community and in 1889 authored The Mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets. He lectured on Shakespeare throughout northern England.^[2] Walters was president of the Manchester Humane Society and the Stockport Garrick Society.^[1][4] He died in Manchester in 1933.^[5]

Walters was an anti-vivisectionist, spiritualist and vegetarian.^[1] He was a member of the Vegetarian Society.^[6]

• The Mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1889)
• Tennyson: Poet, Philosopher, Idealist (1893)
• Clues to Dickens's Mystery of Edwin Drood (1905)
• The Lost Land of King Arthur (1911)
• Phases of Dickens: The Man, His Message, And His Mission (1911)
• Some Proofs of Personal Identity (1924)
• The Charm of Lancashire (1929)
• Romantic Cheshire (1930)
• The Spell of Yorkshire (1931)
• Lancashire Ways (1932)