Tollemache, Lionel A.

Old and Odd Memories.

London, Edward Arnold, 1908. 23cm x 15cm. 328 pages. Original hardcover in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of age-related wear including some mild foxing. Inscribed and signed by Lionel A. Tollemache on the endpaper: “To Winnie – Lionel A. Tollemache” / Further inscribed by the recipient ‘Winnie’ who passed on the book as gift: “…+ then to my two dear American friends, the Davenport Wests from Cousin Winnie”.

Includes for example the following chapters: Tales of my Forefathers / My Father and his Clerics / My Father in his Home / My Old-world Kinsfold and Friends / Jottings about Harrow (1850-6) / Jottings about Oxford (1856-60) / Jottings about After-life / My Father’s Anecdotes / Random Recollections of Famous Men.

The son of the first Lord Tollemache of Helmingham, Lionel A. Tollemache was born on May 28, 1838, and his life was remarkable for the persistent triumph of mental and moral qualities over the gravest physical impediments. Although he suffered from extreme short-sight and a continual stammer, and some lameness due to an accident when he was a boy, he became an excellent scholar and a most interesting companion, and was the author of several volumes, in which philosophic discussion alternates with humorous anecdotes. After Harrow and Oxford he read for the Bar for a short time, but stammering and increasing blindness formed a hopeless handicap, and after a time he found an outlet in writing for magazines. His first published writing was “Historical Prediction” in the fortnightly in 1868. Other papers followed, chiefly biographical, in the same magazine and in Macmillan and Fraser, together with many letters in the Journal of Education and the Spectator. [from The Times obituary, February 1909]

• Keywords: Biographies and Memoirs · Biography – Rare · English History · English History – Rare
• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 90301AB

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