J. Meade Falconer

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John Meade falconer

John Meade Falkner (born May 8, 1858 in Manningford Bruce , Wiltshire , † July 22, 1932 ) was a British author and antiquarian who was best known for his novel Moonfleet . He was also a successful businessman , who during the First World War, CEO of the company Armstrong Whitworth was.

Life

John Meade Falkner was born in 1858 to a country clergyman. After his childhood in Dorchester and Weymouth , as well as visiting the Marlborough College , he studied history at Hertford College of Oxford University and graduated in 1882 from.

Afterwards he was initially a teacher ( master ) at the Derby School . He worked for some time as a private tutor before traveling to large parts of Europe. On his return he found employment with the family of Sir Andrew Noble , the owner of Armstrong-Whitworth Co. He became an employee of his company, an armaments manufacturer from Newcastle, and rose to a managerial position there. He later took over after Sir Andrew Noble's death on October 22, 1915, his position as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Armstrong-Whitworth.

After his retirement in 1921 he was both an honorary professor of paleography at the University of Durham and librarian of the Dean and the Cathedral Chapter of Durham Cathedral . In this position he was able to deepen his interests in church history and architecture, heraldry and books.

Despite his numerous travels, he found Durham his hometown and lived from 1902 until his death in 1932 in the immediate vicinity of the cathedral in Divinity House ("House of Divinity"), today's music school of Durham University.

His writing activity was awakened by numerous private and business trips abroad, during which he also collected countless antiquarian books. In addition to three novels and anthologies , he also wrote three topographical books on Oxfordshire , Bath and Berkshire, as well as a history of Oxfordshire.

In 1955, Das Schloß im Schatten was a film adaptation of his book Moonfleet from 1898. In 2013, a mini-series was also produced.

literature

Novellas
  • The Lost Stradivarius. (1895), a story about the supernatural, most of which is set in Oxford and Naples.
  • Moonfleet (1898) is a classic adventure story about smugglers and their goings-on in a small fishing village in Dorset .
    • John Meade Falconer: Moonfleet. Penguin Books (Penguin Popular Classics), London 1995, ISBN 978-0-14-119794-4 . (English)
  • The Nebuly Coat. (1903) is a novel about a church in danger of collapsing.
    • John Meade Falkner: The coat of arms of Lord Blandamer. Medium Verl., Halle (Saale) 2012, ISBN 978-3-89812-827-8 .
Other works
  • Handbook for Travelers in Oxfordshire. 1894.
  • A History of Oxfordshire. 1899.
  • Handbook for Berkshire. 1902.
  • Bath in History and Social Tradition. 1918.
Published posthumously
  • Poems. 1933, a volume of poetry and an overview of his works.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Lost Stradivarius (Google Books) or The Lost Stradivarius (PDF file) ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.horrormasters.com
  2. ^ Moonfleet (Google Books)
  3. ↑ The Nebuly Coat (Google Books)
personal data
SURNAME Falkner, J. Meade
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Falkner, John Meade (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British author and antiquarian
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Manningford Bruce , Wiltshire , England
DATE OF DEATH July 22, 1932