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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]
Fothergill: Directed by Claude Whatham. With Robert Hardy, Lynn Farleigh, John Carson, Patrick Newell. John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
- Claude Whatham
- 1981-01-09
- Drama
- Robert Hardy, Lynn Farleigh, John Carson
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 ...
- January 27, 2000
Nov 14, 2023 · Fothergill, John Rowland (1876–1957), innkeeper and author, was born on 27 February 1876 at Kennington, Ashford, Kent, the only son of George Fothergill and his wife, Isabel Eliza (née Crawshay). He had two sisters. His mother died when he was two days old, and George Fothergill subsequently remarried; there was a son by this second marriage.
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 ...
John Fothergill kept the Spreadeagle at Thame in the 1930's transforming a fairly average country pub into a venue of choice for the gentry, the dons and students of Oxford, and the glitterati. Fothergill was an incorrigible name-dropper and the great and the good adorn his pages, much as they would have done had he been a gossip columnist.
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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.
