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| June 19th | William Golding (Death) |
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The famous writer of ‘Lord of the Flies’ and eleven other novels, the Nobel Laureate (1983), William Golding (1911 – 1993) was born in his maternal grandmother’s home, ‘Karenza’, in Newquay. Golding went to Oxford (Brasenose College) in 1930 to study Natural Sciences but, after two years, transferred to studying English Literature. Golding’s first collection of poems was published in 1934 whilst he was teaching at Maidstone Grammar School. In 1985, Golding and his wife, Ann Brookfield, moved to Tullimaar House, Perranarworthal, a beautiful Regency mansion built for the mining adventurer, Benjamin Sampson, where Golding nurtured five acres of apple tree orchards. Tullimaar House was requisitioned in World War II and was Eisenhower’s headquarters in the two weeks before D-Day. In the central east ground floor room there is a brass plaque worded ‘A shot was fired through this window by a sentry Running Amok 1944’.
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