Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with

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, English social history and

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. He was awarded the

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for literature in 1928 for his book ''

Tarka the Otter ''Tarka the Otter: His Joyful Water-Life and Death in the Country of the Two Rivers'' is a novel by English writer Henry Williamson, first published in 1927 by G.P. Putnam's Sons with an introduction by the Hon. Sir John Fortescue. It won th ...

''. He was born in

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, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and

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. He fought in

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and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to

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after

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and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon.

Early years

Henry Williamson was born in

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in south-east

to bank clerk William Leopold Williamson (1865-1946) and Gertrude Eliza (1867-1936; née Leaver). In early childhood his family moved to

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, and he received a

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education at

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. The then semi-rural location provided easy access to the

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countryside, and he developed a deep love of

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throughout his childhood.Deavin, Mark "Henry Williamson: Nature's Visionary" in ''National Vanguard Magazine'' No. 117 (March–April 1997)

First World War

On 22 January 1914, Williamson volunteered as a rifleman with the 5th (City of London) Battalion of the London Regiment, part of the

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, and was

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when war was declared upon

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on 5 August 1914. In November 1914, he went to France with the London Rifle Brigade's 1st Battalion, entering the Western Front's trenches in the

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, where he witnessed the Christmas Truce between British and German troops. In January 1915, he was withdrawn from the winter trenches with

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and

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and evacuated back to Britain. After convalescence, he was commissioned on 10 April 1915 as a second lieutenant with the 10th (Service) Battalion of the Bedfordshire Regiment. In May 1915, he was attached for training to the 2/1st

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at Newmarket. In October 1915, he was transferred to the 25th

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. He volunteered to specialise in

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warfare, and in January 1916, joined No. 208 Machine Gun Company of the

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at Belton Park,

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. In May 1916, he entered hospital in London with

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, and was granted two months' medical leave. He rejoined No. 208 MGC and in February 1917 departed Britain with it for the Western Front, the unit taking the field with the

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. Williamson acted as his company's transport officer and, in June 1917, he was gassed while transporting ammunition up to the front line. He was returned to the UK, spending the next few months in military convalescent hospitals. In September 1917, he was attached for garrison duty as the adjutant of the 3rd Bedfordshire Regiment at

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. Classed B1 by an Army Medical Board, from the effects of the gas, he was judged to be unfit for active service. After a year at Felixstowe, and frustrated at the nature of garrison life, Williamson attempted to get back to front-line action in September 1918 with an application to be transferred to the

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, but this was rejected due to his medical classification. He then applied for a transfer to the

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, which was granted, but the war was ending and the order was cancelled. He spent a year afterwards on administrative duties demobilising soldiers from military camps on the south east coast of England, and was discharged from the army himself on 19 September 1919. Williamson became disgusted with what he considered to be the pointlessness of the war, blaming its causation on greed and bigotry. He became determined that Germany and Britain should never go to war again. Williamson was also powerfully influenced by the camaraderie that he had experienced in the trenches, and what he saw as the bonds of kinship that existed between the ordinary British and German soldiers.

Early writing

He told of his war experiences in ''The Wet Flanders Plain'' (1929), ''The Patriot's Progress'' (1930) and in many of his books in the semi-autobiographical 15-book series ''A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'' (1951–1969). After the war, he read

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' book '' The Story of My Heart'' and this inspired him to begin writing seriously. In 1921, he moved to

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, initially living in Skirr Cottage there. He married Ida Loetitia Hibbert in 1925; they had six children. One daughter, Margaret, was the first wife of the guitarist and lutenist Julian Bream. In 1927 Williamson published his most acclaimed book, ''

''; it won him the

in 1928, and made him enough money to pay for the wooden hut near Georgeham where he wrote many of his later books, often sitting alone there for 15 hours a day. The wooden writing hut was granted Grade II listed status by English Heritage in July 2014 because of its "historical interest". ''Tarka'' also sparked a friendship with

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who had similar views about the need for a lasting peace settlement in Europe. Lawrence died in May 1935 shortly after receiving a telegram from Williamson, which has sparked some conspiracy theories. In 1936 he bought a farm in Stiffkey, Norfolk. ''The Story of a Norfolk Farm'' (1941) is his account of his first years of farming there.

Politics

In 1935, Williamson visited the

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Congress at

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and was greatly impressed, particularly with the

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movement, which he viewed as having a healthy outlook on life compared with the London slums. He had a "well-known belief that

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was essentially a good man who wanted only to build a new and better Germany."The Norfolk Farm
at The Henry Williamson Society Opposed to war and believing that wars were caused by Jewish "usurial moneyed interests", he was attracted to

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's British Union of Fascists and joined it in 1937.Bolton, K.
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at OswaldMosley.com Mosley became Hereward Birkin in Williamson's ''Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'' (possibly a reference to

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and Freda May Birkin, or possibly a reference to Chattie Wake who married Michel Hewitt Salaman who became master of the Exmoor Hunt 1908-11-see Piers P Read's biography of Alec Guinness). On the day of the British declaration of war, Williamson suggested to friends that he might fly to Germany to speak with Hitler to persuade him away from war. Following a meeting with Mosley later that day, however, he was dissuaded from his plan. At the start of the

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, Williamson was briefly held under

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for his political views. Visiting London in January 1944, he observed with satisfaction that what he perceived as the ugliness and immorality represented by its financial and banking sector had been "relieved a little by a catharsis of high explosive" and somewhat "purified by fire". In ''The Gale of the World'', the last book of his ''Chronicle'', published in 1969, Williamson has his main character Phillip Maddison question the moral and legal validity of the

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. Williamson initially retained a close relationship with Mosley in the immediate aftermath of the war, but when he brought Mosley as his guest to the

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, the former BUF leader was asked to leave. Williamson refused Mosley's request to join the newly established

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and indeed, his suggestion to Mosley that he should instead join him in abandoning politics altogether led to the two men falling out. Nonetheless, Williamson would write for the Mosleys' theoretical journal '' The European''. He also continued to express admiration for aspects of Nazi Germany after the war.

Post-war life and writing

Henry Williamson's former home - geograph

After the war the family left the farm. In 1946 Williamson went to live alone at Ox's Cross,

in North Devon, where he built a small house in which to write. In 1947 Henry and Loetitia divorced. Williamson fell in love with a young teacher, Christine Duffield, and they were married in 1949. He began to write his series of fifteen novels collectively known as ''A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight''. In 1950, the year his only child by this marriage Harry Williamson was born, he edited a collection of poems and short stories by James Farrar, a promising young poet who had died, at the age of 20, in the Second World War. From 1951 to 1969 Williamson produced almost one novel a year, while contributing regularly to the '' Sunday Express'' and '' The European'' magazine, edited by

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. He also contributed a number of reviews and articles to ''

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''. In 1964 he had a short affair with the novelist

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, who was nearly forty years his junior (he had previously had an affair with his secretary Myfanwy Thomas, daughter of poet Edward Thomas). All this put great strain on his marriage and, in 1968, Christine and he were divorced after years of separation. In 1974 he began working on a script for a film treatment of ''Tarka the Otter'', but it was not regarded as suitable to film, being 400,000 words long. Filming went on, unknown to him, and the film of ''Tarka the Otter'', narrated by Peter Ustinov, was released in 1979.

Death

After a general anaesthetic for a minor operation Williamson's health failed catastrophically; one day he was walking and chopping wood, the next day he was unrecognisable and had forgotten who his family were. Suffering from

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, he moved into a hospice at Twyford Abbey in Ealing. He died there on 13 August 1977, by coincidence on the day that the death scene of Tarka was being filmed. His body was buried in the graveyard of

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, North Devon. At a service of thanksgiving in

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delivered the memorial address.

Henry Williamson Society

The Henry Williamson Society was founded in 1980. His first wife, Loetitia, supported the society until her death in 1998 and his son, Richard, is its president.

Bibliography

''The Flax of Dream'' - a

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following the life of Willie Maddison *''The Beautiful Years'' (1921) *''Dandelion Days'' (1922) *''The Dream of Fair Women'' (1924) *''The Pathway'' (1928) ''A Chronicle of Ancient Sunlight'' - a series of 15 novels following the life of Phillip Maddison from his birth in the late 1890s till the early 1950s, based loosely on Williamson's own life and experiences. If considered as one novel, it is one of the longest in English. *''The Dark Lantern'' (1951) *''Donkey Boy'' (1952) *''Young Phillip Maddison'' (1953) *''How Dear Is Life'' (1954) *''A Fox Under My Cloak'' (1955) *''The Golden Virgin'' (1957) *''Love and the Loveless'' (1958) *''A Test to Destruction'' (1960) *''The Innocent Moon'' (1961) *''It Was the Nightingale'' (1962) *''The Power of the Dead'' (1963) *''The Phoenix Generation'' (1965) *''A Solitary War'' (1967) *''Lucifer Before Sunrise'' (1967) *''The Gale of the World'' (1969) Other Works * ''The Lone Swallows'' (1922) * ''The Peregrine's Saga, and Other Stories of the Country Green'' (1923) * ''The Old Stag'' (1926) * ''

'' (1927) * ''The Linhay on the Downs'' (1929) * ''The Ackymals'' (1929) * ''The Wet Flanders Plain'' (1929) * ''The Patriot’s Progress'' (1930) * ''The Village Book'' (1930) * ''The Labouring Life'' (1932) * ''The Wild Red Deer of Exmoor'' (1931) * ''The Star-born'' (1933) * ''The Gold Falcon or the Haggard of Love'' (1933) * ''On Foot in Devon'' (1933) * ''The Linhay on the Downs and Other Adventures in the Old and New Worlds'' (1934) * ''Devon Holiday'' (1935) * ''Salar the Salmon'' (1935) * ''Goodbye West Country'' (1937) * ''The Children of Shallowford'' (1939) * ''The Story of a Norfolk Farm'' (1941) * ''Genius of Friendship: T. E. Lawrence'' (1941; reprinted by the Henry Williamson Society 1988; e-book 2014) * ''As the Sun Shines'' (1941) * ''The Incoming of Summer'' (undated) * ''Life in A Devon Village'' (1945) * ''Tales of a Devon Village'' (1945) * ''The Sun in the Sands'' (1945) * ''The Phasian Bird'' (1948) * ''The Scribbling Lark'' (1949) * ''Tales of Moorland and Estuary'' (1953) * ''A Clearwater Stream'' (1958) * ''In The Woods, a biographical fragment'' (1960) * ''The Scandaroon'' (1972) Writings published posthumously by the Henry Williamson Society * ''Days of Wonder'' (1987; e-book 2013) * ''From a Country Hilltop'' (1988; e-book 2013) * ''A Breath of Country Air'' (2 vols, 1990–91; e-book 2013) * ''Spring Days in Devon, and other Broadcasts'' (1992; e-book 2013) * ''Pen and Plough: Further Broadcasts'' (1993; e-book 2014) * ''Threnos for T.E. Lawrence and Other Writings'' (1994; e-book 2014) * ''Green Fields and Pavements'' (1995; e-book 2013) * ''The Notebook of a Nature-lover'' (1996; e-book 2013) * ''Words on the West Wind: Selected Essays from The Adelphi'' (2000; e-book 2013) * ''Indian Summer Notebook: A Writer's Miscellany'' (2001; e-book 2013) * ''Heart of England: Contributions to the Evening Standard, 1939-41'' (2003; e-book 2013) * ''Chronicles of a Norfolk Farmer: Contributions to the Daily Express, 1937-39'' (2004; e-book 2013) * ''Stumberleap, and other Devon Writings: Contributions to the Daily Express and Sunday Express, 1915-1935'' (2005; e-book 2013) * ''Atlantic Tales: Contributions to the Atlantic Monthly, 1927-1947'' (2007; e-book 2013)

Sources

* Farson, Daniel, ''Henry: An Appreciation of Henry Williamson''. London, Michael Joseph. 1982. * Higginbottom, Melvyn David, ''Intellectuals and British Fascism: A Study of Henry Williamson''. London, Janus Publishing Co. 1992. * Lamplugh, Lois, ''A Shadowed Man: Henry Williamson 1895-1977''. 2nd revised ed., Dulverton, Somerset, Exmoor Press, 1991. * Matthews, Hugoe, ''Henry Williamson. A Bibliography''. London, Halsgrove. 2004. * Murry, John Middleton, 'The Novels of Henry Williamson', in ''Katherine Mansfield, and other Literary Studies''. London, Constable. 1959. * Sewell, Fr. Brocard ''Henry Williamson: The Man, The Writings: A Symposium''. Padstow, Tabb House. 1980. * West, Herbert Faulkner, ''The Dreamer of Dreams: An Essay on Henry Williamson'', Ulysses Press, 1932. * Williamson, Anne, ''Henry Williamson: Tarka and the Last Romantic'', Sutton Publishing (1995) . Paperback edition (1997) * Williamson, Anne, ''A Patriot's Progress: Henry Williamson and the First World War'', Sutton Publishing (1998) * Wilson, Peter (ed), ''T. E. Lawrence. Correspondence with Henry Williamson''. Fordingbridge, Hants, Castle Hill Press. 2000. (Volume IX of ''T. E. Lawrence Letters'', edited by Jeremy Wilson)

References

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