Thomas Hinde (novelist)
Thomas Hinde | |
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| Born | Thomas Willes Chitty 2 March 1926 Felixstowe, Suffolk, England, UK |
| Died | 7 March 2014 (aged 88) West Hoathly, West Sussex, England, UK |
| Occupation | Novelist and nonfiction author |
| Citizenship | British |
| Spouse |
Susan Hopkinson, Lady Chitty
(m. 1964–2014) |
| Children | Four |
Sir Thomas Willes Chitty, 3rd Baronet (2 March 1926 – 7 March 2014), better known by his pen name Thomas Hinde, was a British novelist.
Life
Thomas Chitty was born in
Chitty married
Pseudonym
The surname Hinde belonged to Chitty's family history on his mother's side. Samuel Henry Gladstone (1853–1932) was son of Robert Gladstone, the younger (1811–1872), of Highfield, Cheetham Hill, Manchester, a member of the Liverpool Gladstone family. Robert Gladstone married in 1852 Anne Mary Hinde, daughter of Samuel Hinde of Lancaster; and after her death another Miss Hinde, a cousin of his first wife.[5][6][7][8][9]
Works
His first novel, Mr Nicholas, was published in 1953.
Hinde published thirteen further novels before turning to non-fiction. After 1980, he also published books on English stately homes and gardens, English court life, and the forests of Britain, as well as histories of English schools.
Bibliography
ISBNs for the books listed. . (April 2015) |
Novels
- Mr. Nicholas (1953)
- Happy as Larry (1958)
- For the Good of the Company (1961)
- A Place Like Home (1962)
- The Cage (1962)
- Ninety Double Martinis (1963)
- The Day the Call Came (1964) ISBN 978-1939140586
- Games of Chance: The Interviewer, The Investigator (1965)
- The Village (1966) ISBN 9780340027806
- High (1968)
- Bird (1970)
- Generally a Virgin (1972)
- Agent (1974) ISBN 978-0340184554
- Our Father (1975) ISBN 978-0340201565
- Daymare (1980) ISBN 978-0333304273
Nonfiction
- Spain A Personal Anthology 1963 (Newnes)
- On Next to Nothing: A Guide to Survival Today (1976, with Susan Chitty)
- The Great Donkey Walk (1977, with Susan Chitty)
- The Cottage Book: A Manual of Maintenance, Repair, and Construction (1979)
- Sir Henry and Sons: A Memoir (1980)
- A Field Guide to the English Country Parson (1983)
- Stately Gardens of Britain (1983)
- Forests of Britain (1985)
- Just Chicken (1986, with Cordelia Chitty)
- Capability Brown: The Story of a Master Gardener (1987)
- Courtiers: 900 Years of English Court Life (1986)
- Tales from the Pump Room: Nine Hundred Years of Bath: The Place, Its People, and Its Gossip (1988)
- Imps of Promise: A History of the King's School, Canterbury (1990)
- Paths of Progress: A History of Marlborough College (1992)
- Highgate School: A History (1993)
- The Martlet and the Griffen: An Illustrated History of Abingdon School(1997, With Michael St John Parker)
References
- ^ Kelly's (1943). Kelly's Handbook to the Titled, Landed and Official Classes. Kelly's Directories. p. 424.
- ^ Tucker, Nicholas. "Obituary: Susan Chitty: Eccentric writer and biographer". Independent. Archived from the original on 7 May 2022. Retrieved 8 August 2021.
- ^ "Obituary: Sir Thomas Chitty". The Daily Telegraph. 11 March 2014. Archived from the original on 11 March 2014.
- ISBN 9781349036509.
- ^ "Uppingham School Roll, 1824 to 1905". E. Stanford. 1906. p. 121.
- ^ "Death of Mr. Robert Gladstone". South Wales Daily News. 4 May 1872 – via newspapers.library.wales, Welsh Newspapers Online.
- ^ "Gladstone, Samuel Henry (GLDN872SH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ Burke, Edmund (1873). The Annual Register. Rivingtons. p. 152.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. F. Jefferies. 1852. p. 304.
- ^ Ricks, Christopher (2 October 1980). "Review of reissue of Mr Nicholas". London Review of Books. pp. 6–7.
- ^ Allsop, Kenneth (1958). The Angry Decade; A Survey of the Cultural Revolt of the Nineteen Fifties. London: Peter Owen Ltd.
- Citadel Press.
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