George Green Loane (1865 – 17 May 1945) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor, and author.
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Early life
editA son of the Reverend Richard Hussey Loane, of Rushbrook, Queenstown,[1] by his marriage in 1859 to Jane Green,[2] Loane was born at Cork and educated at Midleton College, the Royal College, Armagh, Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar and a gold medallist, and finally at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted there as a sizar in October 1890, gained a scholarship in 1892, and graduated BA with first class honours in the Classical Tripos in 1893, proceeding to MA in 1898.[1][3]
Life and career
editLoane was a schoolmaster at St Paul's School, which was then in Hammersmith, from 1893 to 1925, serving as a housemaster from 1901 to 1908.[4][1]
Loane edited and wrote a number of books, mostly for use in schools. His Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century (1897) and A Short Handbook of Literary Terms (1900) both had multiple editions.[5]
On 27 December 1900, Loane married Edith Armitage, a daughter of the Rev. William Firth Armitage, vicar of Scotforth, Lancashire, at Scotforth.[6][2] Their daughter Alice Margaret was born at Fulham in 1902,[7] and another daughter, Joan Edith, in 1904.[8] After retiring from St Paul's, Loane settled in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he died in 1945.[9] Joan Edith married Francis Wood Smith at St George's, Hanover Square in 1933.[10]
Selected publications
edit- George Green Loane, ed., Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century (1897, several editions)
- George Green Loane, A Short Handbook of Literary Terms (1900, a further 14 editions until 1976)
- George Green Loane, ed., Livy: Book XXI, with Introduction, Notes &c (Blackie, reprinted 1986)
- George Green Loane, ed., Selected English Essays (London: Dent, The Kings Treasuries of Literature series, 1921)
- George G. Loane, M.A., Longer Narrative Poems (18th Century) edited for Schools (1921)
- George Green Loane, A Book of Story Poems (University of California Libraries, 1921)
- George Green Loane More English essays (1928, new edition 1941)
- George Green Loane, Echoes in Tennyson, and Other Essays (London: Stockwell, 1928)
- George G. Loane, "Chapman's Homer", The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 156 (1937), pp. 637–640
- George G. Loane, "Misprints in Chapman's Homer", Notes and Queries 173 (1937), pp. 398–402
Notes
edit- ^ a b c John Archibald Venn, "Loane, George Green" in Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. II. Dabbs-Juxton (Cambridge University Press, 1951), p. 194
- ^ a b Marriages at loanegenealogy.webs.com, accessed 21 April 2019
- ^ The Dublin University Calendar, Volume 2 (1901), p. 493
- ^ The Admission Registers of St Paul's School from 1876 to 1905 (London: Bell, 1906), p. 476
- ^ Loane, George Green at WorldCat, accessed 21 April 2019
- ^ "Loane George Green & Armitage Edith" in Register of Marriages for Lancaster Registration District, vol. 8e (1900), p. 1286
- ^ "Loane Alice Margaret" in Register of Births for Fulham Registration District, vol. 1a (1902), p. 327
- ^ "Loane Joan Edith" in Register of Births for Fulham Registration District, vol. 1a (1904), p. 323
- ^ "Loane George G aged 79" in Register of Deaths for Stroud Registration District, vol. 6a (1945), p. 464
- ^ "Loane Joan E & Wood Smith Francis G" in Register of Marriages for St. George's Hanover Sq. Registration District, vol. 1a (1933), p. 1219