William James Wintle
William James Wintle (1861–1934) was an English journalist and writer.[1]
Life
[edit]Wintle's family was from Gloucestershire. He was educated at the Sir Walter St John's Grammar School For Boys, in Battersea. He then was headmaster of a school for a time.[1]
By 1896 Wintle was writing for the Windsor Magazine.[2] He then joined the Harmsworth staff, working for Lord Northcliffe. There he worked on magazines, and the Harmsworth Encyclopaedia, a part-published (=serialized) work. Later he was director of a publishing house.[1][3]
As naturalist, Wintle was known as a shell collector; his collection went to that of Arthur Blok.[4] He became a fellow of the Zoological Society during 1899. He joined the Malacological Society of London also, during 1916, and was its Secretary during 1919;[1] he was elected to the Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland during 1917.[5]
Interested in Christian religion, Wintle donated to the Anglican church in Chiswick. He spent time on Caldey Island with the Benedictines there.[1] A British Museum list of those presenting zoology specimens during 1920 includes a Brother W. J. Wintle.[6] He later became a Roman Catholic convert.[1]
Works
[edit]One of Wintle's pieces of journalism, Life in Our New Century from 1901, was published originally in the Harmsworth Magazine.[7]
Wintle also composed and published various books:
- Armenia and its Sorrows (1896),[8] prompted by the Hamidian massacres. A letter of endorsement from W. E. Gladstone to Wintle was used to publicise the book.[9]
- Paradise Row and Some of its Inhabitants (1897)
- Recreations with a Pocket Lens (1911)[10]
- Nights with an Old Lag (1911)[11]
- Pilgrim Songs on the King's Highway (1911) [12]
- The Songs of Old England (1912)[13]
- Ghost Gleams. Tales of the Uncanny (1921).[14] These are regarded as ghost stories for children, and A Light in the Dormitory has been included in an anthology.[15]
Wintle wrote for the Sunday School Union, using the pseudonym "John Upton" for a weekly article for the Union's Sunday School Chronicle. With them he published:[1]
- The Story of Florence Nightingale (1896)
- The Story of Albert the Good (Prince Consort) (1897)[16]
- Dr. J. L. Phillips ... A Biographical Sketch (1898)[17] with Mary Phillips; biography of James Liddell Phillips (1840–1895)[18]
- The Story of Victoria, R.I.: Wife, Mother, Queen (1901)[19]
- Florence Nightingale and Frances E. Willard: the Story of Their Lives, with Florence Witts, undated[20]
According to his obituary, Wintle also wrote a Life of Charles Spurgeon.[1]
Notes
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h Obituary, Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. Vol. XXI, 1934–5. p. 149.
- ^ "The FictionMags Index, Stories, Listed by Author, Wintle to Wire". Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ Richard Bourne (24 July 2015). Lords of Fleet Street: The Harmsworth Dynasty. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 978-1-317-40388-3.
- ^ Haasiana no. 6, April 2012 (PDF) at pp. 52 and 54
- ^ "The Journal of Conchology". Internet Archive. 15 August 1917. p. 217. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ "Return British Museum, for 1920". Internet Archive. 1920. p. 125. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ P. D. Smith (25 September 2008). Doomsday Men: The Real Dr Strangelove and the Dream of the Superweapon. Penguin Books Limited. p. 713. ISBN 978-0-14-191032-1.
- ^ Armenia and its Sorrows, 2nd edition 1896 (PDF)
- ^ The Bookseller. J. Whitaker and Sons, Limited. 1896. p. 1000.
- ^ William James Wintle (1911). Recreations with a Pocket Lens. London.
- ^ W. J. Wintle (1911). Nights with an Old Lag. John Ouseley.
- ^ James Wintle, W. (1911). Pilgrim Songs on the King's Highway.
- ^ The Songs of Old England /selected by W. James Wintle. Ousely. 1912.
- ^ William James Wintle (1921). Ghost Gleams. Tales of the Uncanny. London. ISBN 9781899562695.
- ^ Philippa Pearce (1995). Dread and Delight: A Century of Children's Ghost Stories. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-212605-4.
- ^ William James Wintle (1897). The Story of Albert the Good (Prince Consort). Sunday School Union.
- ^ Dr. J.L. Phillips ... A Biographical Sketch ... Completed and Edited by W.J. Wintle. Sunday School Union. 1898.
- ^ "General Catalogue of Bowdoin College and the Medical School of Maine 1794–1950". 1950. p. 135. Retrieved 20 August 2015.
- ^ William James Wintle (1901). The Story of Victoria, R.I.: Wife, Mother, Queen. Sunday School Union.
- ^ Lavinia Byrne (1 January 1995). Woman At The Altar: The Ordination of Women in the Roman Catholic Church. A&C Black. p. 132. ISBN 978-0-264-67335-6.
