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Weyman died on 10 April , his wife surviving him by four years; they had no children.

Stanley John Weyman pronounced , 7 August — 10 April was an English writer of historical romance. His most popular works were written in — and set in late 16th and early 17th-century France. While very successful at the time, they are now largely forgotten. After a year's teaching at the King's School, Chester, he returned to Ludlow in December to live with his widowed mother.

Weyman was called to the bar in , but had little success as a barrister, as he was shy, nervous and soft-spoken. However, his shortage of briefs gave him time to write. His short story "King Pippin and Sweet Clive" appeared in the Cornhill Magazine , although its editor, James Payn, himself a novelist, told Weyman it would be easier to make a living writing novels.

Weyman viewed himself as a historian and so he was particularly encouraged by positive notices for an article he wrote on Oliver Cromwell that was published in the English Historical Review. Weyman's ill-health prompted him in to spend several months in the South of France with his younger brother Arthur. In December of that year the brothers were arrested on suspicion of espionage at Aramits.

A page critical biography of Weyman published as an annex to an edition of his novel Ovington's Bank suggests that this ordeal galvanised the thirty-year-old Weyman, who until then had scraped a meagre income writing short stories.

Around , he married Charlotte Kate Eliza Panting in Great Fransham, Norfolk, England.

His first novel, The House of the Wolf , was published in Like many of his successful works, it is set in the French religious wars of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Weyman became a full-time writer in Four years later he married Charlotte Panting at Great Fransham, Norfolk, and moved with her to Ruthin in Wales, where they lived for the rest of their lives.

Weyman died on 10 April , his wife surviving him by four years; they had no children.