Charles Edwin Woodrow Bean was born in Bathurst on the 18th of November 1879 and was raised in bathurst until 1898 when he moved with his family to England. His father, Edwin Bean was the headmaster of the All Saints College in Bathurst and was also a priest. From 1889 to 1898 while living in England, Charles attended several schools including Brentwood, Clifton College and Hertford College. In 1898 he was lucky enough to win a scholarship to Oxford where he was able to study the classics, one of his loves. Charles was a conscientious student who graduated with second-class honours and continued to study law.
In 1904 Charles Bean returned to Australia, sailing into Sydney Harbour full of hope for his next adventure and was soon accepted to the New South Wales Bar. As a lawyer, Charles Bean decided to start his own practice. During the process of setting his practice up, however, he began writing articles for the ‘Evening News’, a newspaper Edited by ‘Banjo’ Paterson and worked as an assistant master at Sydney Grammar School. It was at this time that Charles Bean realised he preferred writing and teaching to law. By 1908, Charles Bean had been made a junior reporter for ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’.
After several successful articles, showing his ability to write the ‘Big Stories’ Bean was assigned as a special correspondent for the Royal Australian Navy to report on the upcoming visit of sixteen American Warships, known as the Great White Fleet. He was later to write a book about his findings which included all his own photographs, drawings and watercolours.
In mid-1914 as war quickly approached, Charles Bean was given the task of writing a daily piece on the escalating crisis in Europe. This soon lead him to becoming the offi...
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...s Bean became the founder of the Parks and Playgrounds Movement of New South Wales. He found himself going off on a tangent becoming involved in the Town Planning Association, working towards creating a city that resembled the country.
Even though Charles Bean was often described as a modest man, he would have described himself as shy and it was said that he admitted that he was ”too self conscious to mix well with the great mass of men". He even declined a knighthood on more than one occasion. It was no secret that he was held in high regard for his bravery during the war, and his commitment to his writings from the war, and was once described by his long-time assistant, Arthur Bazley, as one of the finest men he had ever known.
Charles Bean died on the 30th of August 1968 at Concord Repatriation Hospital after being admitted there in 1964 with failing health.
Being a war correspondent people describes Charles as being quite a dull person but also accurate, papers such as ‘The Age’ and ‘The Argus’ started to stop publishing Charles’ stories as for it had an “unappealing” style
In Dan McCall’s essay, “From the Reliable Narrator,” McCall stresses that the lawyer/narrator should be viewed as a reliable and trustworthy source. His perspective on the lawyer a “distinct minority”, as he feels very few view the lawyer in that way. Many critics see the lawyer as the opposite of McCall, and inforce that the lawyer is unreliable and blameworthy. That he is a representation of ‘consumer capitalism” and the he ‘is simply incapable of recognizing-the political and economic forces that have made him what he is” (McCall, 272). McCall uses other critic’s perspectives in order to reflect light on his own. He explains that the lawyer is someone he trusts, when he first read it at the age of eighteen and even now, because the lawyer
Ralph Vaughan Williams was born in The Vicarage, in Down Ampney, on October 12, 1872 to Arthur and Margaret Vaughan Williams. Ralph’s father; Arthur was the vicar of the All Saints Church in Down Ampney in 1868. Through his mothers side Ralph had two famous great-great-grand fathers; Josiah Wedgwood, the founder of the pottery at Stoke-on-Trent, and Erasmus Darwin, the grandfather of Charles Darwin. In 1875 Ralph’s father suddenly died, when he was only two years old. His mother moved him and his two siblings to the Wedgwood family home: Leith Hill Place, in Surrey.
As the audience knows, Mr Birling’s prediction of “peace and prosperity and rapid progress” could not contradict further the reality of the 40 years following 1912. These “silly little war scares” Mr Birling
Professor Geoff Hayes, “4 August 1914: Slithering Over the Brink, The Origins of the Great War,” Lecture delivered 31 October, 2011, HIST 191, University of Waterloo
Herbert George Wells was born in Bromley, in the south of England on September 21, 1866. Wells was not born into a wealthy family. Sarah Wells was born on October 10, 1822. As a job Sarah Wells became a domestic servant. When Wells was a child he got hurt playing cricket this was a future altering injury because while he wasn’t able to do anything he started to read a lot which gave him the love for literature and writing. Joseph and Sarah Wells felt that the only thing their son was going to be was a clerk in a store. In 1874-1880 Wells got his childhood education at Thomas Morley’s Commercial Academy (Abrams 10+; “Wells, H. G.” 122).
On March 13, 1855, Percival Lowell was born in Cambridge, to a wealthy Bostonian family. His parents were Augustus Lowell, a president of cotton companies and director of banks, and Katherine Bigelow Lawrence, daughter of Abbott Lawrence, a textile manufacturer and founder of the city of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Percival Lowell was very well educated, having attended and graduated Noble and Greenough School in 1872, as well as Harvard University, graduating in 1876 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics. Interestingly, his graduation speech was about the formation of the solar system, which showed that, even then, he was interested in astronomy. He was later awarded honorary LL.D degrees from Amherst College in 1907 and Clark University in 1909. His brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, went on to become the president of Harvard, while his sister, Amy Lowell, helped introduce new poetry into America. He then took the customary grand tour of Europe, though he traveled farther than most--all the way to Syria. Once he completed college, Lowell worked in his family’s textile business for six years. A lecture concerning Japan in 1882 inspired Lowell to travel to the Far East. He served as a foreign secretary to the Korean Special Mission, part of the first Korean diplomatic mission, in 1883. He later wrote a number of books on the Far East. Books by Percival Lowel...
In his youth he went to preparatory schools instead of attending any regular schools. In 1907, he got a scholarship to go to Charterhouse. While there he had many harsh feelings towards any of his fellow classmates and even less feelings for the teachers there. He started up writing poetry after he was a boxer and becoming school boxing champion in Welter and Middle weight. In academics he was very successful also. So successful that he got a full ride St. Johns College in Oxford where he wanted to study classics. He travelled to the nearest place he could find for officer training and signing up as a reaction to the declaration of war for WWI. While on a holiday vacation in Wales he .joined the Royal Welsh Fusiliers. He toured France as a captain in the month of M...
Herbert George Wells was born on September 21, 1866 in Bromley, England, the last of four children. His mother was a house cleaner and his father was a shopkeeper. When he was eight years old, he broke his leg, spent a lot of time reading, and discovered an intense interest in books. At the age of thirteen, his father was injured in an accident so Wells had to leave school and work for a draper. He hated this work and managed to change his employment by working for his uncle and becoming a part-time tutor. This gave him the opportunity to continue his studies in his free time. He finally won a scholarship to The Normal School of Science in London. He worked as a journalist while continuing his education.
Citizens pushed to the side, through streams of proud troops. Women draped in long dresses with the sun bearing down on them, smiling in aspiration of these ‘heroes’ marching through Germany. Impeccable attired men, looking witty and smart, marched with these troops. Frocking little boys and girls on their way home from school. All accompanied by the Nazi band who were playing music. A rich and visual symphony defined the streets of berlin, Germany, 1933. Juxtaposed to his familiar surroundings, a lone 12-year-old boy a sauntered in congruously through the jostling crowds. A 12-year-old boy who was more interested in football, card games and family time, not ‘nationalism’ nor ‘the father land’. Far different to the boys attitude around him, He wore a simple brand of clothes, again different to the Schwartz sticker on many boys around him. Tomas Muller’s strong features; mirrored by seventy million who were part of this pulsating nation. He did not grow up here, but having listened with great fascination to a plethora of myths and stories about Germany from a young age, you would think he would be more excited. He wasn’t. Around him was German propaganda of bringing back to the fatherland.
Suzanne Edgar, 'Logue, Lionel George (1880–1953)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/logue-lionel-george-10852/text19261, accessed 21 December 2013.
H.G. Wells was born on September 21, 1866 as Herbert George Wells in Bromley, Kent, England. He was the youngest child of Joseph and Sarah Wells. Although Herbert’s father owned a shop, the Wells family struggled with poverty while he was growing up. In 1874 at the age of seven, Wells, bedridden for several months with a broken leg, utilized this time and his passion for reading, pouring through many novels his father rented from their local library, which included novels from Charles Dickens and Washington Irving. At the age of 14 after losing their family’s shop and main source of income, Wells and his brother were set off to work, Wells found an apprenticeship with a draper at the Southsea Drapery Emporium, Hyde’s, while his mother began working at an estate as a housekeeper. After several unhappy months, Wells left his job as a draper’s apprentice and returned home much to his mother’s dismay. The experiences he gained as an apprentice, thirteen-hour long workdays and living in a crowded dormitory, would inspire some of his later novels, The Wheels of Chance and Kipp. After visiting the estate that employed his mother, he discovered the owner’s extensive library where he read various works from cla...
Charles would move to Germany and enroll in University of Leipzig. While at Leipzig, he would become William Wundt’s intern. However, Charles was reluctantly called back to serve the British army once more during the South African War. After finally being released again in 1902, Charles would take his new wife Frances Henrietta Priaulux Ail...
Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. "1989." Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Vol. 4. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2006. 1874-1880. World History in Context. Web. 11 Mar. 2014.
...e. After sometime of being lonely, he married his cousin, Emma Wedgewood, in 1839. For his studies he earned the Royal Society’s Royal Medal in 1853. He wanted to publish his findings so that people all the world could read about his studies. He published a book called, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life on November 22, 1859. For the rest of his life, he spent all of his time improving and defending his theories. He wrote an autobiography for his grandchildren, not for the public, so they could remember him.