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John Rowland Fothergill was born in Kent in 1876, his family originating from Westmorland and Caerleon. [2] He studied at St John's College, Oxford, the Slade School of Fine Art and the London School of Architecture. [3][1] His contemporaries at the Slade included Augustus John and William Rothenstein. [4]
Dec 10, 2020 · An innkeeper's diary ... An innkeeper's diary by Fothergill, John, 1876-1957. Publication date 1987 Topics ... 4.2-initial-95-g43a18aa1
This book covers John Fothergill's days as an English innkeeper from the mid-1920s to about 1930. When he purchased the inn, it apparently served mainly salesmen and local workers, but over the years he developed a more selective clientele of intellectuals, writers, politicians, and others.
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Apr 27, 2000 · E.S. Turner. 2868 words. An Innkeeper’s Diary. by John Fothergill. Faber, 278 pp., £23.95, January 2000, 0 571 15014 4. John Fothergill, the high-handed host of the Spreadeagle at Thame between the world wars, described himself in Who’s Who as ‘Pioneer Amateur Innkeeper’. Evelyn Waugh, sending him a copy of Decline and Fall, inscribed ...
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Feb 23, 2024 · An Innkeeper's Diary by JOHN FOTHERGILL. Publication date 2000 Publisher The Folio Society Collection ... 0.0.16_books-20220331-0.2 Boxid IA41128120 Camera ...
Jan 22, 2021 · John Rowland Fothergill was always his own invention, a snob, an Innkeeper, a chef, food and wine connoisseur, author, artist, bully and Wit. Fothergill ran the ’Spread Eagle’ at Thame, later managed the ‘Royal Ascot Hotel’ and lastly the ‘ Three Swans’ at Market Harborough, his life as an Innkeeper was almost four decades long ...
Jun 1, 2018 · John Fothergill, early 20th-century, United Kingdom, English hotels and inns, biography, An Innkeeper's Diary, social history, upper middle class, class, menus, bohemia Abstract Provides a biographical sketch of John Rowland Fothergill, the celebrated author and innkeeper at the Spread Eagle in Thame, the Royal Hotel, Ascot and the Three Swans, Market Harborough.
