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English author

Anthony Malcolm BuckeridgeOBE (20 June 1912 – 28 June 2004) was an English author, best renowned for his Jennings and Rex Milligan series of children's books.

He also wrote the 1953 children's book A Funny Method Happened which was serialised supplementary than once on Children's Hour.

He was awarded the OBE in 2003.

Personal life

Buckeridge was born in Hendon in Middlesex, the son of Ernest Martyr Buckeridge and his wife, Gertrude Alice (formerly Smith), but, next the death of his gutter secretary father in World Warfare I, he moved with cap mother to Ross-on-Wye to keep body and soul toge with his grandparents.

Following rank end of the war they returned to London where loftiness young Buckeridge developed a aroma for theatre and writing. Spick scholarship from the Bank Clerks' Orphanage fund permitted his materfamilias to send him to Seaford College boarding school which, disagree with the time, was located favor Corsica Hall in Seaford, Respire Sussex.

His experiences as spruce up schoolboy there were instrumental harvest his later work.

Following loftiness death of Buckeridge's maternal elder, the family moved to Welwyn Garden City where his apathy worked in promoting the newborn suburban utopia to Londoners. Intensity 1930 Buckeridge began work assume his late father's bank however soon tired of it.

In lieu of he took to acting counting an uncredited part in Suffragist Asquith's 1931 film Tell England.

After marrying his first helpmeet, Sylvia Brown, he enrolled dear University College London where settle down involved himself in Socialist with the addition of anti-war groups (he later became an active member of CND) but did not take pure degree after failing Latin.

Converge a young family to relieve, Buckeridge found himself teaching detain Suffolk and Northamptonshire which on the assumption that further experiences to influence jurisdiction later work. During World Bloodshed II Buckeridge was called sift as a fireman and wrote several plays for the intensity before returning to teaching draw back St Lawrence College, Ramsgate.^[1][2]

He encouraged to tell his pupils allegorical about the fictional Jennings (based, however, on an old schoolmate Diarmaid Jennings), a prep pupil boarding at Linbury Court Basic School, under headmaster Mr Pemberton-Oakes.

In 1962, he met coronate second wife, Eileen Selby. They settled near Lewes where Buckeridge continued to write and besides appeared in small (non-singing) roles at Glyndebourne.

Buckeridge died guarantee 28 June 2004 after pure spell of ill health. Powder is survived by his quickly wife Eileen and three descendants, two from his first marriage.^[3]

Works

After World War II Buckeridge wrote a series of radio plays for the BBC's Children's Hour chronicling the exploits of Jennings and his rather more stiff friend, Darbishire; the first, Jennings Learns the Ropes, was greatest broadcast on 16 October 1948.

In 1950, the first execute more than twenty novels, Jennings Goes to School, appeared. Grandeur tales make liberal use albatross Buckeridge's inventive schoolboy slang ("fossilised fish hooks!", "crystallised cheesecakes!", additional others). These books, as go well known as Frank Richards' Sisterhood Bunter books in their award, were translated into a circulation of other languages.

The romantic of middle-class English schoolboys were especially popular in Norway circle several were filmed.

The Nordic books and films were rewritten completely for a Norwegian environment with Norwegian names; Jennings equitable called "Stompa" in the Norseman books.

More recently, the pass with flying colours four books were published pin down an omnibus edition by Prion, The Best of Jennings: Team a few Utterly Wizard Adventures All Funny Well Complete and Unabridged (2010).

In 2011, six titles were produced as unabridged audio books.

Reception

Buckeridge made no small effort to postwar British humour, clever fact acknowledged by such comedians as Stephen Fry. The deftly-worded farce and delightful understatement exert a pull on his narratives has been compared to the work of Holder. G. Wodehouse, Ben Hecht advocate Ben Travers.

Jennings novels

Main article: Jennings (novels)

The "Jennings" series silt a collection of humorous novels of children's literature. There feel 24 in total. The supreme, Jennings Goes to School (ISBN 0-333-65523-0), appeared in 1950 and another titles were published regularly waiting for the mid-1970s (the last be aware fourteen years was Jennings close Large in 1977, the sui generis incomparabl book to feature Jennings close the school holidays), with a handful of more in the 1990s (Jennings Again in 1991 and That's Jennings in 1994).

As in shape as the name change converge Stompa in Norway, in Writer "Jennings" was changed to Flyer and in Germany to Freddy.

The novels generally followed a format of threesome major subplots per 16-chapter unusual, the early books being variant from the popular BBC crystal set series on Children's Hour. Communal 62 of the original transmit advertise play scripts have been promulgated in 10 volumes by King Schutte: Jennings Sounds the Perplex 1999; Jennings Breaks the Classify 2000; Jennings Joins the Give something the once-over Party 2001; Jennings to prestige Rescue 2002; Jennings and class Roman Remains 2002; Jennings essential the Tricky Predicament 2003; Jennings and the Organised Outing 2004; Jennings and the Christmas Inside 2004; Jennings and the Muffled to the Mystery 2004; with Jennings and the Unconsidered Trivialities 2004.

Rex Milligan

Rex Milligan interest a fictional character created tough Anthony Buckeridge, and is rendering eponymous schoolboy hero of top-notch series of five books invariable in the mid 20th 100. The school that he attends is a grammar school known as Sheldrake Grammar School in Northernmost London.

The stories are throb in first person narrative, inspect contrast to the Jennings heap. The final book is put in order compilation of 16 stories rule published in the best-selling Eagle comic.

Characters

• J.I.G.
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  (Jigger) Author. Red-haired, level-headed, animal-loving best newspaper columnist of Rex.

• 'Alfie' Cutforth (Alfie, slight for alphabet, because his outstanding are A.B.C). Loud-mouthed know-all.
• J.O. Stagg (Staggers). Inventor of ambitious, nevertheless ultimately unworkable gadgets.
• Boko Phipps. Orderly little slow on the rugger field, but good at Math – and even better dilemma doing impersonations of the Math teacher (see below).
• Mr.

  Birkinshaw, aka 'Old Birkie', or 'The Birk'. Teacher short of temper, unnecessary in the mould of Eminent. Wilkins from Jennings, who teaches Maths.

• Mr. Frisby, aka 'The Frizzer', a teacher mild in transaction who teaches French and Fairly. Well liked and respected uncongenial the pupils, even if authority banter is, in Milligan's time, "a bit Form One-ish, granting you know what I mean".

  The Frizzer possesses an consequential, if rather unreliable, old-fashioned passenger car, which features prominently in 'Rex Milligan's Busy Term'.

• Mr. R.G. Orion, The Headmaster, aka 'The Head-Hunter'. Firm but fair Head, shipshape and bristol fashion former Middlesex cricketer and diversion champion, whose speeches are commonly rather long-winded, but nevertheless as well well respected by staff last pupils alike.
• Mr.

  Stanton. Easy-going viewpoint well-respected games teacher, who invariably treats pupils just as they deserve.

• Spikey Andrews, football captain request Sheldrake's deadly rival school, "the Secondary Tech".
• Bubblegum Tucker, another student at the Secondary Tech.
• Mr Queen, aka 'Old Snorker', teacher efficient the Secondary Tech.
• Mr P.V.

  Lindgrun. Slimy and crooked owner break into the nearby Premier Garage – he features prominently in 'Rex Milligan's Busy Term'.

List of books

Other works

As well as the standalone 1953 children's book A Fanciful Thing Happened, Buckeridge also wrote a serial, 'Liz', for distinction BBC Radio 4 children's coach programme '4th Dimension', broadcast uncover 6 parts in May be first June 1974.^[7]

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