Leonard Green

FRAGMENTS FROM THE FRINGE

LEONARD HENRY GREEN CBE (1885-1966)

BY

BARRY VAN-ASTEN

Leonard Henry Green is known to certain literary enthusiasts as the author of two uranian works of prose – ‘Dream Comrades and Other Prose Sketches’ (Oxford. Blackwell. 1916) and ‘The Youthful Lover and Other Prose Studies’ (Oxford. Blackwell. 1919); others may well know of his friendships with T. E. Lawrence and Dorothy L. Sayers. The author, Donald Weeks met Leonard Green at the Reform Club in 1960 for luncheon to discuss aspects in the life of Frederick Rolfe for Weeks’ biography ‘Corvo: Saint or Madman’ (1971); Weeks tells us that ‘the late Captain Leonard Green’, one of Weeks’ correspondents, was ‘an invaluable source of information. A nephew of a brother-in-law of John Addington Symonds.’ He also tells us that Green was familiar with other uranian writers, Charles Kains Jackson, (Green became executor after his death) and John Gambril Nicholson, as well as Edward Carpenter and Theodore Wratislaw. (1) I shall come back to the ‘nephew of a brother-in-law’ link to Symonds later. This is not intended to be an in-depth biography of Green but rather a collection of information I have researched and extended upon, perhaps for future investigation. In researching Leonard Green there were some initial doubts as to his parents, doubts which faded after several factors were confirmed: (a) I could find only one birth for Leonard Henry Green during the year 1885 in England; (b) the great Timothy d’Arch Smith gives us some tantalising glimpses into Green’s life, such as his being a Captain in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment amongst other things in his facsimile edition of ‘The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship’ (2001); (c) Green’s entry in the Oxford University Register, St. John’s College, gives his father’s name, (d) the 1911 census entry stating Green is a ‘lecturer at Saltley Training College’ in Warwickshire and (e) the pivotal connection of photographs [one showing Green in his Royal Warwickshire Regiment uniform] and documents relating to Green and Saltley College donated to the University of Gloucester in 1988 by Green’s niece, Mrs. Mary Wakefield (2).

Leonard Henry Green was born on Thursday 8^th October 1885 in Birkenhead, Cheshire and Christened on 10^th November that year (St. Mary, Liscard, Cheshire). His parents are John Theodore Green, (3) born in 1852 at Normanton-le-Heath, Leicestershire (baptised 25^th July 1852. He died on 30^th October 1947 in Wales), and Florence Anne Frances Green, nee Christian (daughter of Samuel and Frances Emily Christian, born Cambridge and christened on 24^th February 1853-1943) (4); they were married in December 1882. After Leonard’s birth in 1885, three years later a sister was born named Constance Marjorie Mortimer Green, born on 4^th June 1888 and Christened on 1^st July that year at St. Saviours, Oxton, Cheshire. Constance went on to study art at the Liverpool City School of Art, the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art and the Cheltenham School of Art. She became quite a fine painter of landscapes and later lived in Cheltenham; she never married and died in Exeter in 1981. In 1891 another child was born: Valentine Christian Green, born on 14^th February 1891 and Christened at St. Saviours, Oxton on 15^th March 1891. Valentine’s Military service began in 1909 when he was 18 years old; he was in the Cheshire Regiment, 4^th Battalion and the 2^nd Battalion Duke of Wellington Regiment and served in Africa, India and Jamaica. During the First World War, Valentine was in the West India Regiment 1915-16 and in The London Gazette on Friday 6^th April 1945 he is recorded as ‘Lieutenant-Colonel (temp Brigadier) Valentine Christian Green (18699, Royal Artillery) is awarded the CBE on Tuesday 10^th April 1945. He married Pauline Mary Heriot-Hill on 29^th December 1917 at St Bede and All Saints, Birkenhead. They had a daughter named Mary Mortimer Green born in Jamaica on 26^th November 1921. Valentine died in Flintshire, Wales in 1971.

In the 1891 census, five year old Leonard is living with his family at 27 Silverdale Road, Oxton, in the parish of St Saviours, Cheshire (the Green family are still there in April 1905). His father, John Theodore Green is 38 and his occupation is ‘cotton merchant’s cashier’. Leonard’s mother, Florence is also 38, his sister Constance is 2 and Valentine is not yet a year old; at the address are two servants.

Ten years later in the 1901 census the Green’s are at Tranmere, Birkenhead in the parish of Claughton Christ Church; his father is 48 and now a ‘cotton merchant manager’, Florence is 48, Leonard is 15, Constance 12 and Valentine is 10; they still have two servants. Leonard was educated at Birkenhead School.

Leonard Green was up at St. John’s College, Oxford in 1904 until 1908; the college register states that he was educated at Birkenhead School and awarded his B.A. in 1910 and M.A. in 1914. It goes on to state that he was a Captain in the 8^th Royal Warwicks, Regt. (TF Res. [Territorial Force, Reserve]) and that he was ‘employed on recruiting duties 1914.’ (5) He was then employed in school and university teaching from 1908-1914. In the 1911 census we can find Green, aged 25, lecturing at Saltley Training College, Erdington, Warwickshire where he began teaching in 1910, remaining until the outbreak of the war in 1914 (6).

T. E. LAWRENCE

Jebail, Syria.

‘Dear Green,

I am on a divan (anglice – an American bent-wood chair) inhaling haschich (a tannery next door but five) and dreaming of odalisques (who were upper housemaids) and bulbuls. Your letter is a breath of Europe and things spiritual and sensual: most comfortable.’ (7)

Leonard Green met the young Thomas Edward Lawrence (1888-1933) in 1904 when Lawrence was a sixteen year old school boy at Oxford High School; Green, who was an undergraduate at St. John’s College, Oxford from 1904-1908 was friends with Lawrence’s elder brother ‘Bob’ – Montague Robert Lawrence (1885-1971) who was also at St. John’s College studying medicine. T. E. or ‘Ned’ as Green called him, struck up a friendship and Green tells us that young ‘Ned’ would visit Green in his rooms at St. John’s College, something which was strictly forbidden. Leonard and the younger Ned would sit in the garden of the Lawrence’s family home at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford, where the family had lived since September 1896, and they would discuss various literary subjects and plans for the future. Green tells us in a volume of reminiscences, ‘T. E. Lawrence by His Friends’ (1937) edited by T. E.’s brother, A. W. Lawrence that they ‘decided that we would buy a windmill on a headland that was washed by the sea. We would set up a printing press in the lowest storey and live over our shop. We would print only rather “precious” books, an essay or two by Walter Pater, Matthew Arnold’s Scholar-Gypsy, a trifle of my own of which Lawrence thought highly, worthy things written by our friends.’ (8) The idea of the ‘windmill printing press’ must have been mentioned towards the end of 1910 as Lawrence writes to Green on 24^th January 1911, gently dismissing the idea, saying that ‘printing is not a business but a craft.’ That Lawrence ‘thought highly’ of Green’s ‘trifles’ is confirmed in a letter which Lawrence wrote to Green on 16^th February 1910, after reviewing something Green had written, Ned writes: ‘please continue pouring: if the rain is to be of this quality. It is something entirely new to me in style & substance: no Pater no Wilde (to speak of…) no anybody.’ (9) It is possible that Green showed some early poems to Lawrence – ‘Green was a poet as well as aspirant printer. Early in 1910 he invited Lawrence’s comments on his verses and was encouraged by the response. Lawrence suggested that Green would not find a publisher easily, but thought that they were suitable material for the projected press. He cautioned Green not to bow to conventional morality and “develop a sense of sin or anything prurient.”’ (10)

WAR AND ERIK

Green joined the Territorial Force, Warwickshire Regiment, 8^th Battalion, who had their Headquarters at Aston Barracks in Birmingham; we find in The London Gazette of 19^th May 1911, Green recorded as being with the 8^th Battalion, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, to be ‘Second Lieutenant’, dated 2^nd March 1911; he is Lieutenant in 1913 and Captain in 1916. D’Arch Smith, to whom we are indebted, tells us that while Green was in the Royal Warwickshire’s he ‘met and fell in love with a fellow officer, Eric (later – pretentiously – Erik) Arnold. Years later, Arnold was to kill himself by throwing himself under a tube-train at Trafalgar Square station (17 April 1951) rather than face prosecution (ironically) on a charge of fare-dodging on the London Underground.’ (11) He was 53 years old when he died. Erik, was born Eric Stennet Arnold on 23^rd August 1897 in Brentford, Middlesex; the son of pawnbroker George Arnold (1850- 18^th December1930) and Sophia Emily Jones (1850-1905) (12). In the 1901 census the Arnold’s are living at 44 Inglis Road, Brentford, Middlesex and Eric is 3 years old; the family are listed as: George Arnold, 51 (born St Pancras) and the head of the household, his wife Sophia, 50 (born Shoreditch), son Arthur G[eorge] Arnold, 20 (born Highgate1880-1930) ‘pawnbroker’s assistant’; daughters Norah K[atharine] Arnold, 18 (born Highgate1882, she married Arthur Edwin Walters (1882-1920) in Brentford in 1911 who died of the Spanish Flu. Norah died in 1961) and Olive G[eorge] Arnold, 17 (born Highgate 1884, died Ealing 1964 aged 80); son Arnold K[eith] Arnold, 13 (born Ealing in 1888, he married Adela Mary Townsend in Brentford in 1915; Adela filed for divorce in 1923 for ‘restitution of conjugal rights’. Arnold K. Arnold, an estate agent, auctioneer and surveyor of Orchard Bungalow, Ruislip, suffered fits and died aged 40 in May 1928 presumably after a seizure while riding his motorcycle), (13) and daughter Doris M[ary] Arnold who is 10 and born in Ealing in 1890, (she possibly married Basil Cartwright in Brentford in 1926). Eric is the youngest and the family also have one servant, a 37 year old governess named Edith Emily Tomlinson – George’s wife Sophia Emily Arnold died in 1905 and two years later George married the governess, Edith Emily Tomlinson, thirteen years his junior, born 1863 in Marylebone; one cannot help wondering if the flame of romance was not lit before his wife’s death! Another brother of Eric’s, John Leslie Arnold (1885-1939) is 15 years old in 1901 and away at school in Kempston, Bedfordshire (he died in Surrey on 5^th February 1939 aged 53). Ten years later we find 13 year old Eric in Blatchingham East, Newhaven, Sussex as a school pupil. Eric attends Tonbridge School in Kent from 1911-1916 (14) and wins a scholarship to St. John’s College, Cambridge in 1916 (BA 1921). His father George, in the 1911 census describes his occupation as ‘independent’; he is 61 living in Ealing with his 47 year old wife, Edith, daughters Norah 28, Olive 26, sons Leslie 25, a ‘pawnbroker’ and Arnold 23, a ‘land surveyor’s  assistant’ and daughter Doris 20, who works as a ‘Government clerk employed at Post Office Savings Bank, Kensington’. The family have three servants.

Just before his 19^th birthday Eric joins the Air Service on 18^th June 1916 (Number of R.A.C. [Royal Air Corps] certificate: 3422 obtained at Eastbourne on 15^th August 1916). Looking at his Air Officer’s Service Record we can find the following information such as his unit transfers: Crystal Palace (15.6.16) to Eastbourne, St. Anthony’s Hill, East Sussex (5.7.16), to Eastchurch, Kent (22.10.16), to Westgate, Kent [sea planes] (23.11.16) to Ark Royal number 2 Wing [sea planes] HMS Ark Royal was stationed at the port of Mudros (Greece) on this date,  (14.5.17) to Manston, Kent (6.5.18), to Dunkirk, France [sea plane base] March 1918. We can see that he is admitted to Chatham Hospital in Kent on 16^th November 1917 with an ‘old injury to left leg’; he is discharged from Chatham on 23^rd November and still ‘unfit’ on 18^th February 1918. He is ‘found fit’ again on 4^th March 1918. While he is stationed at Liettres air base (9-27 April 1918), Flight Lieutenant E S Arnold of 210 squadron was forced to land at Hesdigneul in France after a piston rod broke on his Sopwith Camel on 18^th April 1918; not long after this, Captain E S Arnold was stationed at Omer air base (27 April-30 May 1918) when he was wounded in a flying accident while on an offensive bombing patrol in France on 11^th May 1918, he flew into mist in his Sopwith Camel and crashed in a forced landing at Bollezeele, France, and was taken to hospital with a fractured skull; he is one of three pilots from 210 squadron to crash in fog that day. He is transferred to England on 1^st June 1918 and enters Hospital that day (possibly Hill House Hospital, Rye, East Sussex where he is sent sometime during the summer of 1918). He is in hospital recovering for 8 weeks and pronounced fit again on 20^th August 1918 and given ‘ground duties only’ (possibly working in Number 5 stores depot).

His service record states that he is a ‘very good pilot’ and a ‘good officer’ who was ‘recommended for promotion’ (19^th May 1917) while at Westgate and that he is a ‘good officer. Little experience in command.’ (30^th June 1917). In the Navy Lists of January 1918 – Royal Flying Corps (p. 577-9) on 1^st October 1917 E S Arnold is listed as ‘temporary, Naval Wing (RNAS) Flight Lieutenant’. The records also show that he is an ‘Honorary Captain’ on 1^st April 1918 and ‘Captain’ on 7^th November 1918. In April 1919 he is ‘transferred to the unemployment list’. His permanent address is given as: ‘Chromehurst’, 11 Gunnersbury Avenue, Ealing, W5, his father George Arnold is also at the address and named as a contact should Eric become a casualty; and his occupation in civil life is: ‘Scholar. St. John’s College, Cambridge, from 1916’. Following his time in the Air Service and as a scholar at St. John’s College, Eric works in banking and finances for N M Rothschild & Sons at New Court, St Swithin’s Lane, London until 1945.

During the Second World War Arnold joins the RAF as a Volunteer Reserve pilot and is listed in the London Gazette of 9^th May 1941 under ‘Administrative and Special Duties Branch: commission’ – Eric Stennet Arnold (63877) 11^th April 1941, ‘Pilot Officer on probation’. In the Air Force List for September 1941 (p. 747) he is a ‘Pilot Officer’. Just ten years later on 17^th April 1951 his suicide was a tragic end to a fine pilot of 210 Squadron!

DOROTHY L. SAYERS

Green wrote to Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957) in the summer of 1919 requesting a contribution to his projected volume on associated friendships – ‘Quorum’

Sayers replied to Green’s letter on 29^th August 1919 from Christchurch: ‘I have just received your prospectus and appealing letter – being at home for the moment, just before starting for France to be Secretary to the enclosed, which in your Schoolmastering capacity (you are one, now, aren’t you?) may interest you.

As regards “Friendship”, I must confess to being one of those cynically-minded people who consider that the least said on the subject the soonest mended. Few friendships among women will stand the strain of being romantically considered – all those I’ve ever watched have ended in dead-sea apples (the romantic ones, I mean), & I avoid them like the plague. Men manage better, I think, because most of them spend half their lives in Cloud-cuckooland in any case! Of course there is the amusing cock-a-hen friendship – but it is so very like a game of chess, & one can’t make literature out of KB to QR4 – at least, not the sort of literature you would care about! This is to explain why I’m very unlikely to write much about the subject. If I ever do, of course, I will send it to you with pleasure, but it would probably be in the strain of my contribution to this year’s Oxford Poetry (q.v. when published) –

Now scold me for blasphemies!

I shall look out for your first number, any how – ‘

In a postscript Sayers adds: ‘Dr. Bradford [the Rev. E E Bradford], who wrote “Passing the Love of Women” & “The New Chivalry”, is a sort of neighbour of ours, & says he knows your books & has corresponded with you. He’s an entertaining little crank - & rather a dear – but he can’t write poetry, can he? I had an awful time trying to tell polite lies – I can’t lie about verse.’ (15)

QUORUM: THE MAGAZINE OF FRIENDSHIP

The ‘Friendship’ mentioned in Sayers’ letter refers to a magazine which only appeared in one edition in June 1920 called ‘Quorum, the Magazine of Friendship’. Some of the contributors are well-known amongst a ‘uranian readership’ such as John Gambril Nicholson (1866-1931) who provides ‘Ad Amicum’ (p. 38) for the edition, Kenneth Ingram (1882-1965) of Charterhouse and the writer of detective stories, provides two works: ‘Allegory’ (p. 24-27) and ‘Class Hatred’ (p. 28-33) and there are two short pieces by Leonard Green – ‘In Hospital’ (p. 18-19) and ‘A Bubble’ (p. 20-21). Green’s friend, with whom he often went abroad on holiday and who also wrote detective stories, the Reverend Arthur Robert Lee Gardner (1889-1961) of Lincoln College, Oxford and curate of St Luke’s, Chelsea has ‘Victorian Ethics and Neo-Georgian Romantics’ on pages 10-17. (16) Dorothy L Sayers did in fact contribute two pieces: ‘Veronica’ (p. 22) and ‘Prayer to the Holy Ghost against Triviality’ (p. 23).

THE DISGRACED VICAR

Timothy d’Arch Smith mentions that Green appeared as a character witness in a case involving the Rev. A. R. Thorold Winckley who was accused of  an indiscretion ‘with a boy bent over a comic paper at a railway bookstall’ (17). 61 year old Alfred Reginald Thorold Winckley (1866-1951) of St. John’s College, Cambridge (matriculating on 17^th October 1885, BA 1888, MA 1893), (18) appeared at the Lincolnshire Assizes on Monday 8^th November 1926 and ‘pleaded guilty to 8 charges of committing acts of gross indecency and was sentenced to six months imprisonment’ by Mr. Justice Sankey who said 'he could not accede to a request to send the prisoner to a home. He must pay the penalty provided by the law, but at the same time the judge recognised that the case was a mental one and the time might come when such cases would be treated medically.' (19) D’Arch Smith goes on to tell us that Green was ‘reprimanded for a testimony, however well-intentioned, that came dangerously close to perjury’ (20). It is not known quite exactly how Green came to know Thorold Winckley but he obviously knew him well enough in some capacity to feel confident enough to be a witness as to his character and they both shared a common interest; Reverend Thorold Winckley gave his volume of ‘Men and Boys: An Anthology’ by Edward M. Slocum (1924) from his ‘private collection’ to Henry Spencer Ashby (1834-1900), the book collector, author and bibliographer for his erotic library (21).

THOMAS HILL GREEN AND A CROMWELL CONNECTION

Donald Weeks mentions in his biography of Frederick Rolfe – ‘Corvo: Saint or Madman’ (1971) that Green was a ‘nephew of a brother-in-law of John Addington Symonds.’ Having explored this connection to Symonds I have found that John Addington Symonds’ sister, Charlotte Byron Symonds (1842-1929) married the philosopher Thomas Hill Green (1836-1882) on 1^st July1871, in Clifton, Gloucestershire; (22) T. H. Green, who was a friend of J. A. Symonds, is linked to Leonard Henry Green through his father, the Reverend Valentine Green, the Rector of Birkin, West Riding of Yorkshire; Valentine, is the brother of Leonard Green’s Grandfather, the Reverend John Henry Bakewell Green (1817-1899) of Jesus College, Cambridge and Rector of Normanton-le-Heath, Leicestershire.

T. H. Green’s ‘paternal grandfather was a squire living at Normanton-le-heath in Leicestershire, who married a Miss Mortimer of Caldwell Hall in Derbyshire. (23) An ancestor of this lady, John Mortimer, whose first wife was a granddaughter of Oliver Cromwell, afterwards married a daughter of one of Cromwell’s officers, Colonel Sanders, and from her the Greens were descended. Mrs. Valentine Green (24) was the eldest daughter of Edward Thomas Vaughan, vicar of St. Martin and All Saints at Leicester; her mother was a daughter of Daniel Thomas Hill of Aylesbury, whose son, vicar of Chesterfield and afterwards archdeacon of Derby, gave the living of Birkin to Valentine Green.’ (25)

Leonard Henry Green died in Wandsworth in 1966 aged 80 years old and will forever be remembered for his small contribution to uranian literature and I feel there is much more to be said about Leonard Henry Green and that time will surely come in the future when perhaps his writing and his war-time work will be of interest to a new generation of enthusiasts!

NOTES:

1. Corvo: Saint or Madman. Donald Weeks. London. Michael Joseph Ltd. 1971. p. xi.
2. I established the connection that ‘Mary’ is Mary Mortimer Green, the daughter of Leonard Green’s brother, Valentine (1891-1971), born in 1921; she married Peter M. C. Wakefield in Cheltenham in 1958.
3. John Theodore Green is the son of the Rev. John Henry Bakewell Green (1817-25^th April 1899), Rector of Normanton-le-Heath, Leicestershire. He married Janetta Watkins on 30^th July 1847 in Daventry, Northamptonshire. Janetta died on 15^th June 1857 (buried on 18^th June 1857 at Normanton-le-Heath, aged 33. J. H. B. Green re-married on 3^rd July 1868, to Eliza Alethea Fell, in Coventry (Eliza died on 25^th January 1916 in Bristol).
4. Florence Anne Frances Christian, born in Cambridge in 1853 (Christened on 24^th February 1953 at St Mary-the-Less Church, Cambridge), the daughter of Samuel Christian and Frances Emily Christian nee Mellor.
5. Thanks are due to Mr. Michael Riordan FSA, archivist at St. John’s College, Oxford Archives for providing information on Green’s time at the college. In correspondence, Mr. Riordan went on to say that ‘it seems that he took a Pass degree, a type of degree that no longer exists. Unlike the Honours degree (which existed then and now) the student didn’t specialise in a single subject, but chose several different subjects to study. Green was at St. John’s from 1904-8. Our register states that he took his BA in 1910; I can’t be absolutely certain from the records in our Archive (as examinations were managed by the University rather than the colleges), but I should [think] it highly likely that he took his exams in the summer of 1908, but didn’t actually attend a graduation ceremony until 1910. The MA degree was a kind of upgrade after a certain period of time, so he didn’t need to be studying in Oxford from 1908-1914.’ (Michael Riordan FSA. Archivist St. John’s and The Queen’s Colleges, Oxford. 15^th July 2020)
6. see the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Gloucester which contains 13 photographs and two documents, donated by Green’s Niece, Mrs. Mary Wakefield on 17^th February 1988. [Series D388]. There is a photograph of Green in his Army uniform (Royal Warwickshire Regiment) on parade prior to WW1. (D388/2); the two documents (D388/5) contain biographical notes and an accompanying letter.
7. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Edited by David Garnett. London. Jonathan Cape. 1938. p. 93. Letter received on 14^th January 1911. Lawrence mentions his camera being stolen and unable to ‘take anything interesting’ [in a previous letter from Will Lawrence dated 18^th December 1910, he tells Green that ‘as Ned was away he had opened Green’s letter before forwarding it, and was sending negatives of photographs of Syrian castles for which Green had asked.’ (p. 92)]. Green had asked for advice from Lawrence in preparing lectures he was giving on the Crusades and Lawrence goes into some details before pointing Green towards Pirie-Smith as an authority.
8. T. E. Lawrence by His Friends. Ed. A. W. Lawrence. London. Jonathan Cape. 1937. p. 68. In the brief biography Green gives of himself he says that he is: ‘Secretary to Flour Milling, Employer’s Federation and to National Joint Industrial Council for the Flour-Milling Industry… Assistant Director of Milk Supplies, Ministry of Food, 1918; Executive Committee, League of Nations Union; Vice Chairman, National Industrial Alliance.’
9. The Letters of T. E. Lawrence. Edited by David Garnett. London. Jonathan Cape. 1938. p. 83.
10. The Golden Warrior: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia. Lawrence James. Paragon House. New York. 1993. p. 30-31.
11. The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship. (facsimile edition with an introduction) by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Asphodel Editions. 2001. p. 7 (footnote) [original source: Pimlico News. 27 April 1951].
12. In 1881 George Arnold’s occupation is ‘miscellaneous salesman’ and the family are living at St. Alban’s Villas, St. Pancras; in 1891 he gives his occupation as ‘jeweller’ and the family are living at 44 Inglis Road, Brentford. George Arnold, pawnbroker and jeweller, had two shops, one at 213-215 Kentish Town Road, opened in 1884 and another at 228 High Road, Kilburn. George married Sophia Emily Jones, born 27^th December 1850 in 1879 at St. Pancras. Sophia was the daughter of John Jones, pork butcher, living at 98 High Street, Shoreditch. She died in Brentford in 1905.
13. The Scotsman. Thursday 24^th May 1928. p. 11.
14. The Register for Tonbridge School from 1900-1965. (ed Charles Harold Knott). Tonbridge School. 1966. p. 398.
15. Dorothy L. Sayers. A Literary Biography. Ralph E. Hone. Kent State University Press. 1979. p. 32-34.
16. Rev. Arthur R L Gardner also published: ‘The Art of Crime’. Philip Allan. London. 1931. ‘Prisoner at the Bar’. Philip Allan. London. 1931. ‘Tinker’s Kitchen’. Philip Allan. London. 1932. ‘Lower Underworld’. Quality Press Ltd. London. 1942. ‘Letters from Abroad (1924-1932)’. Privately printed. 1948.
17. The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship. (facsimile edition with an introduction) by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Asphodel Editions. 2001. p. 6 (footnote).
18. Reverend Alfred Reginald Thorold Winckley M.A. was born on 9^th March 1866, the son of William Winckley F.S.A. [Fellow of the Society of Antiquarians] (1821-1897) and Frances Harriet Thorold of Flambards, Harrow on the Hill. He was ordained deacon (Rochester) in 1889 and priest in 1890; appointed curate at Christ Church, Battersea 1889-92; Pulborough, Sussex 1893-5; Buxton, Derbyshire 1895-1900 and in 1900, vicar of St. Mary’s Church, Ashbury, Berkshire. Chaplain at Aix-la-Chapelle 1905-08; missionary at East Angus 1908-9; in the American Church 1909-11. In 1911 he is curate at St. Mary’s Church, Sculcoates, Yorkshire; vicar of Newton-in-Cleveland 1914-17; vicar at Baumber with Great Sturton, Lincolnshire 1917-20 and vicar of Cadney with Howsham and Newstead, Lincolnshire 1920-26. His two elder brothers are also in the clergy: Rev. Charles Richard Thorold Winckley (1844-1941) and Rev. Sidney Thorold Winckley (1858-1937). Alfred died in 1951 aged 85 and was living at 3 Collingham Place, Earls Court, London.
19. ‘Prison for a North Lincs. Vicar – Mental Treatment Refused’ – Hull Daily Mail. Tuesday 9^th November 1926. p. 9 (also see ‘A Vicar’s Downfall’. The Gloucester Citizen. Tuesday 9^th November 1926. p. 8)
20. The Quorum: A Magazine of Friendship. (facsimile edition with an introduction) by Timothy d’Arch Smith. Asphodel Editions. 2001. p. 6 (footnote).
21. see The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British [Museum] Library. (compiled by Patrick J. Kearney). J. Landsman. 1981.
22. Thomas Hill Green, born in Birkin, Yorkshire, on 7^th April 1836, educated at Rugby (1850) and Balliol College, Oxford (1855). Green is known for his philosophical thoughts on moral philosophy and social liberalism. He died on 26^th March 1882 at Oxford.
23. Thomas Hill Green’s paternal grandfather is Valentine Green, born 1767; he married Theodosia Frances Georgiana Mortimer (1775-1852) on 20^th July 1796.
24. Anne Barbara Vaughan, born 1830, Chesterfield. She married Thomas Hill Green’s father, Valentine Green (1800-1873).
25. Memoir of Thomas Hill Green. R. L. Nettleship (with short preface by Mrs. T. H. Green). Longmans, Green and Co. London. 1906. p. 2.