Vachell, Horace Annesley (1861–1955)

English novelist. His novels, often about English middle-class life and aspirations, include Brothers 1904, John Verney 1911, Quinney's Adventures 1924, about an antique dealer, and Quinney's for Quality 1938. He also wrote a number of plays as well as dramatizing some of his novels.

Vachell was born in Sydenham, Kent, and educated at Harrow, about which he wrote his school story The Hill 1905. Fellow Travellers 1923 and Distant Fields 1937, are autobiographical, and his hundredth book, Quests, a collection of essays, was published 1953.