Edward Augustine Wyke-Smith was an English adventurer, mining engineer and writer. He is known mainly for The Marvellous Land of Snergs, a children's fantasy novel he wrote as E. A. Wyke-Smith, whose "snergs" provided inspiration for Tolkien's... Wikipedia
Born: April 12, 1871, United Kingdom
Died: May 16, 1935 (age 64 years), Cornwall, United Kingdom