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An Innkeeper’s Diary. If you’re interested in travel and tourism, hotels and inns, then this is a blog for you. Hands up all those who have heard of John Fothergill! Or his book, first published in 1931 by Chatto and Windus: An Innkeeper’s Diary. It’s a classic; and possibly best read while staying at The Spread Eagle in Thame, the ...
Dec 10, 2020 · An innkeeper's diary by Fothergill, John, 1876-1957. ... 2020-12-10 00:08:04 ... No suitable files to display here. PDF access not available for this item.
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]
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.
Apr 27, 2000 · E.S. Turner. by John Fothergill. 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 it to ‘Oxford’s only civilising influence’. To those who, in 1931, goggled and ...
Author of An innkeeper's diary, My three inns, John Fothergill's cookery book, Confessions of an innkeeper, An innkeeper's diary, The Fothergill omnibus for which eighteen eminent authors have written short stories upon the one and the same plot, The Fothergill omnibus for which seventeen eminent authors have written short stories upon one and the same plot
