Harry Willoughby Weaving (1885–1976) was a British writer and poet of the
First World War
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era.
Early life and education
Willoughby Weaving was the son of Harry Walker Weaving, brewer and farmer, of Pewet House, Wootton,
Abingdon. He entered
Abingdon School in September 1898 and stayed until 1905.
He was one of five brothers to attend the School and received the Meredith prize for Greek and Latin during 1905. After Abingdon School he was a Abingdon Scholar at
Pembroke College, Oxford.
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Career
In 1911 at the age of 26 he was assisting his father on the Pewet House 54 acre Wootton country residence and farm. He later became a schoolmaster at Rockport School in Holywood
Holy Wood or Holywood may refer to:
Places
* Holywood, County Down, a town and townland in Northern Ireland
** Holywood, County Down (civil parish), a civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland
** Holywood railway station (Northern Ireland)
* ...
, County Down and headmaster and proprietor of Elm Park School, County Armagh
County Armagh (, named after its county town, Armagh) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland. Adjoined to the southern shore of Lough Neagh, the county covers an area of an ...
. He left Ireland in 1954 to return to Abingdon-on-Thames
Abingdon-on-Thames ( ), commonly known as Abingdon, is a historic market town and civil parish in the ceremonial county of Oxfordshire, England, on the River Thames. Historically the county town of Berkshire, since 1974 Abingdon has been ad ...
to live. His work is included in Robert Bridges' 1915 anthology ''The Spirit of Man. ''Serving in the Great War with the Royal Irish Rifles
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,
Works
Weaving wrote various war poems, including:
*''Poems ''(1913)
* ''The Dead'' (1915)
* ''Ghosts'' (1915)
* ''Progress'' (1917)
* ''Dies Irae - Day of Wrath'' (1917)
* ''Between the Trenches'' (1917)
* ''Birds in the Trenches'' (1917)
* ''Warrior Months'' (1917)
Weaving's other publications include ''The Star Fields and other poems'' (1916), ''The Bubble and other poems'' (1917), ''Heard Melodies'' (1918), ''Algazel'' (1920), ''Daedal Wings'' (1920), ''Ivory Palaces'' (1931), ''Spoils of Time'' (1933), ''Toys of Eternity'' (1937), ''Purple Testament of Bleeding War'' (1941) and ''Sonnets: and a few lyrics'' (1952).
Death
He died on 16 February 1976 in Abingdon.
See also
* List of Old Abingdonians
References
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1885 births
1976 deaths
People educated at Abingdon School
English male poets
20th-century English poets
20th-century English male writers