June 20th Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (Birth)
     

 

 

Radnorshire – born, Colwyn Edward Vulliamy (1886 – 1971) was a novelist, biographer and artist who studied under Stanhope Forbes (November 18th)

His studies were curtailed by the outbreak of World War I, when he served in France, Macedonia and in Turkey.  After the war he concentrated more on his writing than his art, producing sixteen humorous novels and twenty nine works of non-fiction including a 1931 biography of John Wesley (June 17th) and of William Penn (1933) and philosophical works including ‘Man and the Atom: a Brief Account of the Human Dilemma’ (1947).

His most famous Cornwall – related works include a travel book ‘Unknown Cornwall’ (1925), ‘Prehistoric Remains in West Penwith’ (1921) and ‘Charles Kingsley and Christian Socialism’ (1914).  Charles Kingsley features in this almanack (June 12th).  In 1916, Vulliamy married, the Poona – born, Eileen Hynes (1886 – 1943), a committed Irish Republican.  Eileen had two sisters, Glady Hynes and Sheelah Hynes. 

Gladys, also an Irish Republican and a friend of  Ezra Pound lived in Cornwall (1906 – 1919, studied under Stanhope Forbes (November 18th) and, a close friend of Bernard Walke, she contributed a stall painting for St. Hilary Church. Harold Knight RA (October 3rd) portrayed Gladys in ‘Miss Gladys On the Balcony’ (1933) which sold at Christies in 2017 for £25,000.

 

 

 



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