Sidney Low

Friar Sir Sidney Low (1857–1932) was educated at King’s College School, London and the University of Oxford, where he read Modern History. He was initially an undergraduate at Pembroke College, and then he moved to Balliol, where he was awarded a Brakenby Scholarship. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1892.

He was the editor of the St. James’s Gazette from 1888 to 1897, and was a leader writer and literary editor for the Standard. During the First World War he was a journalist in France and Italy, and edited the wireless service of the Ministry of Information. He was knighted in 1918.

He met with Oscar Wilde in the Whitefriars Club rooms at Anderton’s Hotel to talk about Wilde’s novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.