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Excerpt from Dictionary of National Biography, Vol. 43: Owens Passelewe
About 1850 Oxenford became dramatic critic to the 'times' newspaper, and held that position for more than a quarter of a century. In 1867 he visited America, and subsequently made a tour in Spain. From each country he sent a series of articles to the 'times.' Oxenford was at all times a voluminous writer to the periodical maga zines of his day, and contributed the article Moliere to the 'penny Cyclopaedia.' Owing to ill-health, he was compelled to resign his professional appointments some time before his death, which took place, from heart disease, at 28 Trinity Square, Southwark, on 21 Feb. 187 7. Eighteen months previously he had joined the Roman catholic church, and after his death a requiem mass, with music by Herr Meyer Lutz, was performed at St. George's Cathedral, Southwark. He was buried at Kensal Green on 28 Feb. (of. Catholic Standard; Musical World, 7 April 1877, p.
Oxenford was amiable to weakness, and the excessive kindliness of his disposition caused him so to err on the side of leniency as to render his Opinion as a critic practically valueless. It was his own boast that none of those whom he had censured ever went home disconsolate and despairing on account of anything he had written.' His literary work, in prose and verse alike, shows much facility.
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