“ WEYMAN, STANLEY JOHN (1855–⁠) , English novelist, was born at Ludlow, Shropshire, on the 7th of August 1835, the son of a solicitor. He was educated at Shrewsbury School, and at Christ Church, Oxford. He took his degree in modern history in 1877, and was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1881, joining the Oxford circuit. ”