Fred T. Jane
John Fredrick Thomas Jane (6 August 1865 – 8 March 1916) was the founding editor of
Biography
Jane was born in Richmond, Surrey, England, but worked most of his life in Portsmouth. His father was a Church of England vicar and he attended Exeter School.[1] He first began to sketch warships in his teens, and was notable in the 1890s for illustrating scientific romances by George Griffith and other authors, as well as for his own science fiction novels such as To Venus in Five Seconds (published in 1897) and The Violet Flame (1899).
An avid miniatures
In 1909, he created
Jane was an accomplished maritime and naval artist whose works were widely published in periodicals and his own books, those illustrations are now collectable.
He was also involved in politics, standing as an
His Portsmouth home, on Southsea Common, now bears a plaque recording that he lived there.[4]
In later life Jane lived at
After catching a chill while on a speaking tour in December 1915, Jane became ill, and in March 1916, died alone in his apartment from influenza and heart congestion.[2] He is buried in Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea.[6]
Jane's Combat Simulations are named after him.
References
- ^ A wealth of knowledge, The Guardian, 31 October 2001
- ^ a b Ireland & Grove 1997, p. 7.
- ^ BROOKS R. (1997) Fred T. Jane: an Eccentric Visionary, Jane’s Information Group, London: 260 pp.
- ^ "Memorials and Monuments in Southsea (Fred T Jane plaque)".
- ^ NEAL O. (2008) The Centenary History of Bedhampton Scouts, 1st Bedhampton Scout Troop, Bedhampton
- ^ History of Highland Road Cemetery, Southsea
Bibliography
- Ireland, Bernard; Grove, Eric (1997), Jane's war at sea, 1897-1997, New York: HarperCollins, ISBN 978-0-00-472065-4
External links
- Works by Fred T. Jane at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Fred T. Jane at Internet Archive
- Works by Fred T. Jane at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- The Angel of The Revolution and Olga Romanoff, illustrated by Jane.
- The Violet Flame: A Story of Armageddon and After; written and illustrated by Jane; New York and Melbourne: Ward Lock & Co., 1899
- Fred T. Jane at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database