Roden Noel
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany | |
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| Education | Windlesham House School Harrow School |
| Alma mater | Trinity College, Cambridge |
| Spouse |
Alice de Broë
(m. 1863) |
| Children | Conrad Noel |
| Parent(s) | Charles Noel, 1st Earl of Gainsborough Lady Frances Jocelyn |
Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel, also known as Noël (27 August 1834 – 26 May 1894), was an
Early life
He was the youngest son of
His mother was the second daughter of Robert Jocelyn, 3rd Earl of Roden, and the former Maria Catherine Stapleton (a daughter of Thomas Stapleton, 15th Baron Despencer). His paternal grandparents were Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet and Diana Noel, 2nd Baroness Barham (who succeeded her father as second Baroness Barham in 1823).[3]
Noel was educated at
Career
Roden Noel's versification was unequal and sometimes harsh, but he has a genuine feeling for nature, and the work is permeated by philosophic thought.[6]
His other works include a drama in verse, The House of Ravensburg (1877), an epic on
His Collected Poems were edited (1902) by his sister, Lady Victoria Buxton, with a notice by John Addington Symonds, which had originally appeared in the Academy (January 19, 1899) as a review of The Modern Faust. The selection (1892) in the series of Canterbury Poets has an introduction by Robert Buchanan.[6]
His poem "Sea Slumber Song" was set to music by Sir Edward Elgar as the first song of his song-cycle Sea Pictures.[6]
Noel was a spiritualist and interested in parapsychology. He was a founding vice-president of the Society for Psychical Research.[7]
Personal life
In 1863, he married Alice Maria Caroline de Broë, daughter of Paul de Broë, the director of the Ottoman Bank in Beirut. Their third child, Eric, who died aged five, is commemorated in Roden Noel's best-known book of verse, A Little Child's Monument (1881).[6]
The latter part of his life was spent at Brighton, but he died in the train station of Mainz in Germany. His son Conrad Noel became a Christian Socialist, famous as the "turbulent priest of Thaxted". After his death, his widow Alice married the Rev. David MacAnally in 1895.[2]
Publications
- Behind the Veil, and Other Poems (1863), not included in his collected works
- Beatrice, and Other Poems (1868)
- The Red Flag (1872)
- Livingstone in Africa (1874)
- A Little Child's Monument (1881)
- Songs of the Heights and Deeps (1885)
- A Modern Faust, and Other Poems (1888)
- Poor People's Christmas (1890)
- My Sea, and Other Poems (1896).
References
- ^ . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
- ^ a b c d "Gainsborough, Earl of (UK, 1841)". www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk. Heraldic Media Limited. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ISBN 978-0-89236-862-4. Retrieved 14 October 2020.
- ^ Malden, Henry C. (1902). Muster Roll. Windlesham House, Brighton. A.D. 1837 to 1902 (2nd ed.). Brighton: H. & C. Treacher.
- ^ "Noel, the Hon. Roden Berkeley Wriothesley (NL854RB)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ a b c d e This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Noel, Roden Berkeley Wriothesley". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 732.
- ISBN 978-0521037280
External links
Works by or about Roden Berkeley Wriothesley Noel at Wikisource
Quotations related to Roden Noel at Wikiquote
Media related to Roden Noel at Wikimedia Commons- Works by or about Roden Noel at Internet Archive
- Works by Roden Noel at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
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