George Green Loane (1865 – 17 May 1945) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor, and author. Parliament Square from the Graduates Memorial Building (GMB) - geograph

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Early life

A son of the Reverend Richard Hussey Loane, of Rushbrook, Queenstown,

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, "Loane, George Green" in ''

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'', vol. II. Dabbs-Juxton (Cambridge University Press, 1951), p. 194 by his marriage in 1859 to Jane Green,Marriages
at loanegenealogy.webs.com, accessed 21 April 2019 Loane was born at Cork and educated at

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, the Royal College, Armagh,

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, where he was elected a Scholar and a gold medallist, and finally at

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. He was admitted there as a

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in October 1890, gained a scholarship in 1892, and graduated BA with first class honours in the

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in 1893, proceeding to MA in 1898.

Life and career

Loane was a

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at St Paul's School, which was then in

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, from 1893 to 1925, serving as a housemaster from 1901 to 1908. Loane edited and wrote a number of books, mostly for use in schools. His ''Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century'' (1897) and ''A Short Handbook of Literary Terms'' (1900) both had multiple editions. On 27 December 1900, Loane married Edith Armitage, a daughter of the Rev. William Firth Armitage, vicar of

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, at Scotforth. Their daughter Alice Margaret was born at

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in 1902, and another daughter, Joan Edith, in 1904. After retiring from St Paul's, Loane settled in

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, where he died in 1945. Joan Edith married Francis Wood Smith at

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in 1933."Loane Joan E & Wood Smith Francis G" in ''Register of Marriages for St. George's Hanover Sq. Registration District'', vol. 1a (1933), p. 1219

Selected publications

*George Green Loane, ed., ''Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century'' (1897, several editions) *George Green Loane, ''A Short Handbook of Literary Terms'' (1900, a further 14 editions until 1976) *George Green Loane, ed., ''Livy: Book XXI, with Introduction, Notes &c'' (Blackie, reprinted 1986) *George Green Loane, ed., ''Selected English Essays'' (London: Dent, The Kings Treasuries of Literature series, 1921) *George G. Loane, M.A., ''Longer Narrative Poems (18th Century) edited for Schools'' (1921) *George Green Loane, ''A Book of Story Poems'' (University of California Libraries, 1921) *George Green Loane ''More English essays'' (1928, new edition 1941) *George Green Loane, ''Echoes in Tennyson, and Other Essays'' (London: Stockwell, 1928) *George G. Loane, "Chapman's Homer", ''

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'', vol. 156 (1937), pp. 637–640 *George G. Loane, "Misprints in Chapman's Homer", ''

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'' 173 (1937), pp. 398–402

Notes

External links

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