Amyas Northcote (1864–1923) was a British writer from an aristocratic family.

Family

Northcote was the youngest child and seventh son of Sir

Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (27 October 1818 – 12 January 1887), known as Sir Stafford Northcote, Bt from 1851 to 1885, was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chancellor of the Exchequer between 1874 and 18 ...

(the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Disraeli) and his wife Cecilia Frances Farrer, sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer. He married Helen May Dudley on 14 May 1890. The couple had two children, a daughter Cecilia and a son the Rev. Dudley Northcote, both of whom died unmarried.

Career

Northcote spent some time in

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, running a small business there. He wrote

ghost stories A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them."Ghost Stories" in Margaret Drabble (ed.), ''Oxford Companion to English Literature''. ...

in the line of those of

M. R. James Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English author, Medieval studies, medievalist scholar and provost (education), provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936). He was List of ...

, which were compiled in his only book, ''In Ghostly Company''.

Richard Dalby Richard Lawrence Dalby (15 April 1949 – 4 May 2017) was an editor and literary researcher noted for his anthologies of ghost stories. Early life Richard Dalby was born in London on 15 April 1949 to Tom, a publishing editor, and Nancy, an amate ...

, ''The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2''. Carroll and Graf, (p.417). Wordsworth Editions author page. He was for several years a Justice of the Peace in

Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire (), abbreviated Bucks, is a ceremonial county in South East England that borders Greater London to the south-east, Berkshire to the south, Oxfordshire to the west, Northamptonshire to the north, Bedfordshire to the north-ea ...

.Neil Wilson, ''Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950''. British Library, London, 2000. . (p. 383)

References

English writers Ghost story writers 1864 births 1923 deaths Younger sons of earls {{England-writer-stub