William Arthur Dunkerley

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William Arthur Dunkerley

William Arthur Dunkerley in about 1910
Born (1852-11-12)12 November 1852
Manchester, England
Died 23 January 1941(1941-01-23) (aged 88)
Worthing, Sussex, England
Pen name John Oxenham, Julian Ross
Occupation Journalist, Novelist & Poet
Nationality British
Period 1902-1931

William Arthur Dunkerley (12 November 1852 – 23 January 1941) was a prolific English journalist, novelist and poet. He was born in Manchester, spent a short time after his marriage in America before moving to Ealing, west London, where he served as deacon and teacher at the Ealing Congregational Church from the 1880s, and he then moved to Worthing in Sussex in 1922, where he became the town's mayor.[1]

He wrote under his own name, and also as John Oxenham for his poetry, hymn-writing, and novels. His poetry includes Bees in Amber: a little book of thoughtful verse (1913) which became a bestseller. He also wrote the poem Greatheart. He used another pseudonym, Julian Ross, for journalism. Dunkerley was a major contributor to Jerome K. Jerome's The Idler magazine.

He had two sons and four daughters, of whom the eldest, and eldest child, Elsie Jeanette, became well known as a children's writer, particularly through her Abbey Series of girls' school stories. Another daughter, Erica, also used the Oxenham pen-name. The elder son, Roderic Dunkerley, had several titles published under his own name.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Oxenham, Erica J. O. and Scrapbook of J.O.
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