C. S. Lewis: A Biography. Walter Hooper

Malvern he went to Hertford College, Oxford, after which he became a professional serviceman. Edward Anderson (1898–1928) was a member of School House, 1913–17. He served in the war as a 2nd lieutenant. He later moved to Rhodesia. Kenneth Ernest Lodge (1899–?) was a member of School House, 1913–17, after which he served with the Duke of Lancaster’s Own Yeomanry. He remained in the Army.

^* William Eyre Hamilton Quennell (1898–?) entered School House the same term as Jack. From Malvern he went to the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, and in 1917 he was gazetted into the 7th Dragoon Guards. After the war he trained as a doctor at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, London. During the Second World War he was a medical officer with the Essex Yeomanry.

      ^† ‘The James’ was Canon James, the headmaster. The ‘Old Boy’ was George Gordon Fraser (1870–1958), the headmaster’s assistant in the management of School House. He was a pupil at Malvern College, 1879–85. He was appointed an assistant master at Malvern in 1901, and in 1917 he became house master of No. 9 House, a position he held until 1927.

^* Austin Farrer (1904–68), distinguished philosopher and theologian, was born in London and went up to Balliol College, Oxford in 1923. He took Firsts in Classical Honour Moderations, Literae Humaniores, and Theology. On being ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1929 he served his title in Dewsbury. He returned to Oxford in 1931 as Chaplain and Fellow of St Edmund Hall where he remained until 1935. He was afterwards Chaplain and Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, from 1935 until 1960 when he became Warden of Keble College. His books include Finite and Infinite (1943) and The Revelation of St John the Divine (1964). He came to know Lewis through the Socratic Club, and he and his wife, Katharine Farrer, became close friends of Lewis’s wife, Joy Davidman. See his biography in CG.

^* Alfred Cecil Harwood (1898–1975), who was to become a lifelong friend, was born in London and attended Highgate School. After serving during the war with the Royal Warwickshires, he went up to Christ Church, Oxford in 1919, taking his BA in 1921. In 1923 he became a member of the Anthroposophical Movement founded by Rudolf Steiner, and in 1923 he and his fiancée, Daphne Olivier, became teachers in Michael Hall School, the first Anthroposophical school in Britain. He married in 1925 and devoted the rest of his life to teaching, lecturing and writing. See his biography in CG.

^† >Arthur Owen Barfield (1898–1997), a lifelong friend and a member of the Inklings, was born in London and attended Highgate School where he became friends with Cecil Harwood. He served with the Royal Corps of Signals during the First World War, after which he went up to Wadham College, Oxford on a Classical scholarship. He met Lewis during his first year at Wadham. After taking a BA in English in 1921 he wrote a B.Litt. thesis on ‘Poetic Diction’ which became the basis of his book of that title. He became a follower of Rudolf Steiner in 1923 and was a devoted member of the Anthroposophical Society all his life. He married Maud Douie on 11 April 1923, and settled down to a life of literature. However, in 1929 he gave it up to help in the family law firm, Barfield & Barfield, in London. His many influential books include Poetic Diction (1928), History in English Words (1926), Saving the Appearances (1957) and Worlds Apart (1963). His writings about Lewis are collected in Owen Barfield on C.S. Lewis, ed. G.B. Tennyson (1990). See his biography in CG.

      NOTES

¹ ‘C.S. Lewis: 1898–1963’, ch. 1, p. 1. In 1964 Warren Lewis began writing a biography of his brother, to be based on the old notion of a ‘Life and Letters’. However, on discovering that, of the 230,000 words which made up the book, only 23,300 words were narrative, the publishers hired a copy-editor to revise it. The greater part of the narrative was brought together as a ‘Memoir’ and the book was published as Letters of C.S. Lewis, edited, with a Memoir, by W.H. Lewis (1966). Unfortunately, much of Warren’s original narrative was omitted from the ‘Memoir’ and when we began writing our biography he gave us use of his original book, ‘C.S. Lewis: 1898–1963’; that is what is quoted above. There are two typescripts of the original book, one in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and the other in the Marion E. Wade Center at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois.

² Ibid., pp. 3–4.

³ SBJ, ch. 1, p. 13.

⁴ FL, p. 776.

⁵ ‘C.S. Lewis: 1898–1963’, p. 11.

⁶ Ibid.

⁷ SBJ, ch. 1, p. 6.

⁸ Ibid., p. 7.

⁹ Ibid., p. 2.

¹⁰ An Experiment in Criticism (1961), ch. 3, p. 14.

¹¹ William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611), I.ii.50.

¹² SBJ, ch. 1, p. 10.

¹³ Ibid., pp. 8–9.

¹⁴ Ibid, p. 11, n. 1.

¹⁵ Ibid., pp. 10–11.

¹⁶ Ibid., p. 9.

¹⁷ ‘C.S. Lewis: 1898–1963’, ch. 2, p. 23.

¹⁸ SBJ, ch. 1, pp. 10–11.

¹⁹ Ibid., p. 12.

²⁰ Ibid., p. 11.

²¹ Ibid.

²² Ibid.

²³ Ibid., p. 12.

²⁴ Ibid., pp. 12–13.