Julian Sturgis, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Julian Sturgis

Anglo-American novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist

Date of Birth: 21-Oct-1848

Place of Birth: Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Date of Death: 13-Apr-1904

Profession: writer, association football player, librettist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Julian Russell Sturgis (21 October 1848 – 13 April 1904) was a novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist.
Born in the US, he lived and worked in Britain nearly all his life and took British citizenship. Educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, Sturgis was a notable athlete.
He distinguished himself in Eton's sporting activities and rowed for Balliol for three years.
He then played association football as an amateur, from 1872 to 1876, and was the first foreigner to play in, and the first to win, an FA Cup Final. Sturgis qualified as a barrister, but he embarked on a writing career in 1874, producing novels, poetry, plays and libretti.
He wrote the words for four operas, with music by Arthur Goring Thomas, Arthur Sullivan, Alexander Mackenzie and Charles Villiers Stanford, respectively.
He is, perhaps, best remembered as the librettist for Sullivan's 1891 opera Ivanhoe.