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Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin ). While living in Dublin , he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule . Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Kenya as a Judge . Back in Britain, he defended Havelock Wilson and other labour leaders and ran for election as a Lib/Lab candidate in the 1890s . He wrote two books of poetry, ''Songs of Ziklag'' ( 1888 ) and ''Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar''. He also published a translation ''Sayings of Confucious'' and a volume of autobiography, ''Some Personalities'' ( 1921 ). Upward wrote a number of now-forgotten novels: ''The Prince of Balkistan'' ( 1895 ), ''A Crown of Straw'' ( 1896 ), ''A Bride's Madness'' ( 1897 ), and ''The Accused Princess'' ( 1900 ) (source: Duncan, p. xii). His 1913 book ''The Divine Mystery'' is an anthropological study of Christian mythology. In , the founder of the Scientology -organization, knew of this book. In 1917 the British Museum refused to take Upwards' manuscripts, "on the grounds that the writer was still alive," and Upward burned them (source: Duncan, p. xi). He shot himself in November 1926, reportedly after hearing of George Bernard Shaw 's Nobel Prize award. References
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