Owen Rutter
Edward Owen Rutter (* 1889 ; † 1944 ) was a British historian and writer who was important as the author of novels as well as travelogues.
Rutter joined the North Borneo Chartered Company in 1910 . Because of the First World War , he returned to England from British North Borneo in 1915 and was drafted into military service. Rutter fought as a member of the 7th Battalion of the Wiltshire Regiment in France and on the Salonika Front . He also published the Balkan News , in which he published the Song of Tiadatha under the pseudonym "Klip-Klip" , his parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 's The Song of Hiawatha in the form of a sequel. The Song of Tiadatha was recognized as "one of the masterpieces of World War I poetry" and was later published as Tiadatha ("Tired Arthur"). The story is about a naive young man who matures through his war experiences, especially the battles against the Bulgarians on the Saloniki front. Another setting in its history is the fire in Thessaloniki in 1917 . The book was followed by a second volume, Travels of Tiadatha , in 1922 .
Accompanied by his wife, from whom many of the photographs in his books are taken, Rutter traveled around the globe and made extensive stops in Borneo , Hong Kong , Taiwan (Formosa), Japan , Canada and the USA .
His numerous books include well-known works such as The Scales of Karma (1940), Pirate Wind (1930), Triumphant Pilgrimage: An English Muslim's Journey from Sarawak to Mecca (1937), Pagans of North Borneo (1929), and Through Formosa: An Account of Japan's Island Colony (1923). He also wrote papers on Captain William Bligh and the mutiny on the Bounty . His novella Lucky Star was filmed as Once in a New Moon in 1935 . Triumphant Pilgrimage was a short story about "David Chale", a pseudonym for Gerard MacBryan. Several of his publications belong to the linguistic-anthrophological source literature on the indigenous peoples of Sabah.
From 1933 he became a co-owner of the Golden Cockerel Press publishing house . During the Second World War , Major Rutter worked for the Ministry of Information and wrote a number of brochures there about the British war successes.
He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Anthropological Institute and also a member of the prestigious Athenaeum Club .
Publications
- 1920 The Song of Tiadatha
- 1921 Chandu (Opium) (London: Queensway Press)
- 1922 British North Borneo: An Account of Its History, Resources and Native Tribes (London: Constable and Co Ltd)
- 1922 The Travels of Tiadatha (London: T. Fisher Unwin)
- 1923 The Dragon of Kinabalu. Bornean folk tales
- 1923 General Sir John Cowans GCB, GCMG The Quartermaster-General of the Great War. Volume I (Co-author: Major Desmond Chapman-Huston) (London: Hutchinson and Co)
- 1923 Through Formosa: An Account of Japan's Island Colony
- 1924 General Sir John Cowans GCB, GCMG The Quartermaster-General of the Great War Volume II (co-author: Major Desmond Chapman-Huston) (London: Hutchinson and Co)
- 1925 Dog Days (An anthology of poems on dogs)
- 1925 The New Baltic States and Their Future: an Account of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia (London: Methuen)
- 1926 Sepia (London: Hutchinson and Co) ( republished as Passion Fruit in 1934 )
- 1928 Ask Me Another (London: T. Fisher Unwin)
- 1928 Golden Rain (London: T. Fisher Unwin)
- 1929 Lucky Star
- 1929 The Pagans of North Borneo (London: Hutchinson and Co)
- 1930 One Family, A Dream Of Real Things (London: Elkin Mathews & Marrot)
- 1930 The Pirate Wind: Tales of the Sea-Robbers of Malaya (London: Hutchinson and Co)
- 1931 (Ed.) The Court Martial of the Bounty Mutineers (William Hodge)
- 1932 The Monster of Mu (London: Ernest Benn)
- 1932 Once in a New Moon
- 1932 The Ostrich, at Colnbrook. With illustrations (Some British Inns. No.14)
- 1933 If Crab No Walk: A Traveler in the West Indies (London: Hutchinson and Co)
- 1933 What, Where & Who? A Book of Questions for Children (London: Benn)
- 1934 (Ed.) The History of the Seventh (Service) Battalion, the Royal Sussex Regiment. 1914-1919 (London: Times Publishing Co)
- 1934 One Fair Daughter (London: Victor Gollancz)
- 1934 Passion Fruit (first published in 1926 as sepia )
- 1935 (Eds.) Rajah Brooke & Baroness Burdett Coutts . Consisting of the letters from Sir James Brooke to Miss Angela, afterwards Baroness, Burdett Coutts
- 1935 (Ed.) The Voyage of the Bounty's Launch (Golden Cockerel Press)
- 1936 Clear Waters
- 1936 The True Story of the Mutiny in the Bounty (Newnes)
- 1936 Turbulent Journey: a Life of William Bligh Vice-Admiral of the Blue (London: Ivor Nicholson & Watson)
- 1937 Bligh's Voyage in the Resource (Golden Cockerel Press)
- 1937 The First Fleet. The Record of the Foundation of Australia from its Conception to the Settlement at Sydney Cove. Compiled from Original Documents, with Extracts from the Log-Books of HMS Sirius (Golden Cockerel Press)
- 1937 Triumphant Pilgrimage: An English Muslim's journey from Sarawak to Mecca
- 1938 Anne Alone (London: Michael Joseph)
- 1938 At the Three Sugar Loaves and Crown: a Brief History of the Firm of Messrs. Davison, Newman & Company Now Incorporated with the West Indian Produce Association Limited (London: Davison, Newman & Co)
- 1938 Regent of Hungary: The Authorized Life of Admiral Nicholas Horthy (London: Rich and Cowan)
- 1939 (Ed.) John Fryer of the Bounty (Golden Cockerel Press)
- 1939 Portrait of a Painter. The Authorized Life of Philip de László (with Fülöp Elek László)
- 1939 White Rajah (London: Hutchinson and Co)
- 1940 The Scales of Karma
- 1941 (Ed.) Allies in Arms. The Battle for Freedom
- 1941 The Land of Saint Joan (London: Methuen)
- 1943 Red Ensign: A History Of Convoy (London: Robert Hale)
- 1944 The British Navy's Air Arm: The Official Story of the British Navy's Air Operations
- 1946 (Ed.) 'We Happy Few' An Anthology I: Britain at War II: Britain at Sea III: Britain in the Air (Golden Cockerel Press)
- Unknown release date: The Four Leaf Clover
- Unknown release date: One Family. A Dream of Real Things ... Adapted from the film by Walter Creighton, with illustrations therefrom
- Unknown publication date: Rack Your Brain. A Naval Question Book
- Unknown publication date: Vendetta
- Unknown publication date: Violation: A Variation on an Old Theme
Individual evidence
- ↑ London Gazette 10 May 1918 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The Overshadowed Poets of The Great War
- ↑ The White Rajah: A History of Sarawak from 1841 to 1946 by Steven Runciman, p. 246
- ^ The White Caliph ; Accessed January 7, 2012
- ↑ Hans JB Combrink, Craig Soderberg, Michael E. Boutin, and Alanna Y. Boutin: INDIGENOUS GROUPS OF SABAH: An Annotated Bibliography of Linguistic and Anthropological Sources
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rutter, Owen |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rutter, Edward Owen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1889 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1944 |