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A. G. Macdonnell
Archibald Gordon Macdonell (3 November 1895 – 16 January 1941) was a Scottish writer, journalist and broadcaster, whose most famous work is the gently satirical novel ''England, Their England'' (1933). Early life and education Macdonell was born in Poona, India to a Scottish family, the younger son of William Robert Macdonell, LL.D, an East India merchant and chairman of the Bombay chamber of commerce, and Alice Elizabeth, daughter of miller and art collector John Forbes White, who had trained as a doctor. The family subsequently lived in Aberdeen. His father was "a prominent personality" in Bombay, and "a devoted student of literature and the arts" who corresponded with the novelist George Gissing; his mother's sister, Rachel White, was a distinguished Newnham College, Cambridge-educated classical scholar and one of the earliest female teachers of the subject. Macdonell was educated at Winchester where he excelled academically and at sports, representing the school at assoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archibald Gordon MacDonell
Archibald is a masculine given name, composed of the Germanic elements '' erchan'' (with an original meaning of "genuine" or "precious") and ''bald'' meaning "bold". Medieval forms include Old High German and Anglo-Saxon . Erkanbald, bishop of Strasbourg (d. 991) was also rendered in Old French. There is also a secondary association of its first element with the Greek prefix '' archi-'' meaning "chief, master", to Norman England in the high medieval period. The form ''Archibald'' became particularly popular among Scottish nobility in the later medieval to early modern periods, whence usage as a surname is derived by the 18th century, found especially in Scotland and later Nova Scotia. Given name English diminutives or hypocorisms include ''Arch, Archy, Archie, and Baldie (nickname)''. Variants include French ''Archambault, Archaimbaud, Archenbaud, Archimbaud'', Italian ''Archimboldo, Arcimbaldo, Arcimboldo'', Portuguese '' Arquibaldo, Arquimbaldo'' and Spanish ''Archibaldo, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |