Percival Leigh (1813 - 1889)

Percival Leigh qualified as a doctor, but soon gave up the medical profession to make his living as a comic writer, and later as assistant editor of Punch magazine.

Liverpool John Moores University has an entertaining biography of Leigh, who also wrote under the pseudonym Paul Prendergast, at http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/HSS/124867.htm.