James Ashcroft Noble

James Ashcroft Noble (1844–1896) was an English journalist, critic and minor poet who wrote for the periodical press and lived for years in Liverpool. He is best remembered for his critical essays, collected in The Sonnet in England and Other Essays (1893).

The one poem included here, "The Red Thread of Honour", a ballad of a British regiment in India, was printed in R. Brimley Johnson's 1894 anthology.