“ Kebbel remained a staunch adherent all his life. But, he found journalism hard and unremunerative work, until in 1873 he joined the Standard, on the staff of which he continued as a political leader writer for many years. While writing mainly on politics he also wrote freely on sport and rural life, to which he was keenly attached from his boyhood; indeed he was always a countryman at heart. ”

“ Lord Rowton told him that it was intended by Disraeli that Mr. Kebbel and Lord Barrington should write his Life, but written instructions to that fact were never discovered.
At one time Mr. Kebbel was a facile writer of Latin verse, and some of his translations of Tennyson have been published. A rather disastrous controversy into which he fell with H. A. J. Munro in Macmillan's Magazine is still remembered by those who care for such things. Mr. ”

“ For many years he held the office of Receiver of Fines for the Treasury, to which he was appointed by Lord Beaconsfield, but journalism was his profession, and his introduction to it began in 1855 when he joined the Press, and organ of the Tory Party, to the cause of which Mr. ”