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Dec 28, 2002 · Rupert Davies was a self-made Welsh immigrant who rose from printer's devil to newspaper proprietor, member of the Canadian Senate and ceremonial High Sheriff of Montgomeryshire.
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Third son of Senator William Rupert Davies, Robertson Davies participated in stage productions as a child and developed a lifelong interest in drama. He attended Upper Canada College from 1926 to 1932 and went on to Queen's University from 1932 to 1935 as a special student not working towards a degree. He received a BLit in 1938 at Balliol College,...
Davies returned to Canada in 1940 as literary editor of Saturday Night. Two years later, he became editor of the Peterborough Examiner, a position that afforded him unlimited material for many characters and situations that appear in his novels and plays. While editing this paper (1940–55), and when he served as publisher (1955–65), Davies publishe...
Davies moved from the theory of acting outlined in Shakespeare for Young Players (1947) to the writing of plays with Eros at Breakfast, a one-act play which won the 1948 Dominion Drama Festival Award for best Canadian play. Eros at Breakfast and Other Plays and award-winning Fortune, My Foe were published in 1949; At My Heart's Core, a three-act pl...
Davies found his voice neither in drama nor in occasional humorous essays, but in fiction. His first three novels, later known as The Salterton Trilogy, were Tempest-Tost (1951), Leaven of Malice (1954), which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, - andA Mixture of Frailties(1958). These novels explore the difficulty of sustaining a cu...
After his official retirement, he continued to write novels that extended his fame abroad: The Lyre of Orpheus (1988), completing what came to be known as The Cornish Trilogy (alongside What’s Bred in the Bone andThe Rebel Angels); Murther and Walking Spirits (1991); and The Cunning Man (1994). When he died in 1995, Davies was in the process of wri...
William Rupert Davies (12 September 1879 – 11 March 1967) was a Welsh - Canadian author, editor, newspaper publisher, and politician. Davies was born in Welshpool, Montgomeryshire, Wales and immigrated to Canada in the late 1800s after his family's tailor business failed. [1]
Robertson Davies was born in Thamesville, Ontario in 1913 and was the third son of W. Rupert Davies and Florence Sheppard McKay. Davies’ father, Rupert Davies was born in Wales and was the publisher of The Kingston Whig Standard and was appointed to the Senate as a Liberal in 1942, a position he would hold until his death in 1967.
Davies, Robertson. Playwright, novelist, editor, publisher, born in Thamesville, Ontario in 1913, died in Toronto, Ontario, in 1995. Robertson Davies was the son of Senator William Rupert Davies.
Dec 4, 1995 · William Robertson Davies was born on Aug. 28, 1913, in the southern Ontario town of Thamesville. His parents were William Rupert Davies, a Welshman who became a publisher and Liberal senator,...
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Apr 2, 2009 · He attended Upper Canada College in Toronto from 1926 to 1932 and while there attended services at the Church of St. Mary Magdalene [2]. He would later leave the Presbyterian Church and convert to Anglicanism over objections to Calvinist theology.
