34 Facts About Gunby Hadath

John Edward Gunby Hadath was an English schoolmaster, lawyer, company promoter, songwriter, journalist, and author of boarding school stories.

Gunby Hadath is best remembered for over seventy novels of which over two-thirds were set in English Public Schools.

Gunby Hadath's father dies when he is two, and after initially attending a Dame school, he was sent to the Clergy Orphan School at St Thomas Hill in Canterbury, where the 1881 census found him registered as a scholar.

Gunby Hadath was athletic, and like the hero of one of his own school stories, was Captain of the school.

Gunby Hadath matriculated for Cambridge in October 1889 and was admitted as a resident student to Peterhouse College on 2 October 1889.

Gunby Hadath was awarded his BA in 1892, and began a career as a schoolmaster.

On leaving Cambridge Gunby Hadath taught first at Montpellier School in Paignton.

In 1894, Gunby Hadath was advertising for private pupils, so he cannot have been content with his salary.

Gunby Hadath was awarded his MA degree in January 1896 and was the Senior Classics Master at Guildford Grammar-School He continued to play sports, especially cricket.

Gunby Hadath married Florence Annie Webber in Tonbridge in the third quarter of 1898.

Gunby Hadath had been the Matron at Dulwich School for many years.

Gunby Hadath was a member of the Alpine Club of France.

Gunby Hadath was made a Citoyen d'Honneur of the town in 1932.

Gunby Hadath was on the school and college teams at St Edmunds and Peterhouse.

In 1897, Gunby Hadath was appointed liquidator for the Candelaria Gold Mine Limited, a liquidation that was only completed in 1902.

Gunby Hadath was admitted to the Inner Temple on 20 February 1908.

Gunby Hadath had an initial hearing in February 1910, in which he declared that he had been a schoolmaster, a secretary of more than one company, a journalist and songwriter.

At a subsequent hearing on 28 July 1910, the Official Receiver reported that Gunby Hadath's bankruptcy had been brought on by rash and hazardous speculations.

Gunby Hadath joined up in the First World War and served in the 6th Battalion of the Middlesex Volunteer Regiment.

Gunby Hadath was appointed to the Rank of Captain on 2 February 1917.

Gunby Hadath resigned his commission due to ill-health on 2 December 1918.

Gunby Hadath continued writing, and published right up to his death.

Gunby Hadath was the director and co-trustee of the Benevolent Fund of the Performing Right Society.

Gunby Hadath was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts,.

Gunby Hadath died in a London Hospital on 17 January 1954.

Gunby Hadath has attracted a lot of praise for his writing:.

Gunby Hadath himself identified one of the problems facing his work.

Gunby Hadath had his first published juvenile fiction story, a school story, published in The Captain in 1909.

Gunby Hadath had applied for bankruptcy on 18 November 1909, and owed over three hundred pounds in interest to money lenders when he first appeared in court.

Gunby Hadath wrote for The Captain and other boy's papers including Chums, The Modern Boy, and The Boy's Own Paper.

Gunby Hadath used a range of pseudonyms, mainly for his short fiction, with a few exception:.

Gunby Hadath had moved to England by the 1911 census with an address in Bournemouth.

Gunby Hadath published verse, and a volume of angling stories.

Gunby Hadath published seven novels under 4 different aliases in 1933, his most productive year.