18 Aug 2023
Wife: Louise Mary Hyde Also known as: Lucy Hyde 1,2
Born: 1875 in Oxford 3 (see note 1) Census: 1901 in London (see note 2) Occupation: 1901 Actress Census: 1911 at Hollydene, Shelford Road, Trumpington (see note 3) Father: Mother:
Husband: Reginald Brimley Johnson Married: 1902 in London 3 (see note 4)
Born: 1867 in Cambridge 3 (see note 5) Education: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge 4 (see note 6) Occupation: Publisher, Author, Critic Census: 1911 at Hollydene, Shelford Road, Trumpington (see note 7) Occupation: 1911 Literary Man Died: 1932 in London 5 (see note 8) Father: Mother:
Sources: (1) 1901 census. (2) Marriage record. (3) FreeBMD website. (4) Alumni Cantabrigienses. (5) Index on ancestry.co.uk.
Event Notes Note (1) Mar 1875 Headington 3a 644 Note (2) Lucy Hyde: age 25, born Oxford, Actress Note (3) Louise Johnson: age 35, born Oxford, with husband R Brimley Johnson Note (4) Mar 1902 St Giles 1b 815 bride Lucy Hyde Note (5) Dec 1867 Cambridge 3b 487 Note (6) Name: Reginald Brimley . Johnson College: CORPUS CHRISTI Entered: Michs. 1886 Died: 18 May 1932 More Information: Adm. pens. at CORPUS CHRISTI, Oct. 1, 1886. [Youngest] s. of William Henry Farthing (1843), schoolmaster, of Llandaff House, Cambridge. B. Dec. 6, 1867, at Cambridge. School, Llandaff House, Cambridge, and Crawford College, Maidenhead. Matric. Michs. 1886. Established a small publishing business in London and Edinburgh in 1900, for the purpose of issuing early books by G. K. Chesterton, G. Lowes Dickinson, and others. Founded, in October, 1909, The Gownsman and edited it, 1912-13. Author, Jane Austen, a critical study; Jane Austen, her Life, her Work, her Family and her Critics; The Women Novelists (Fanny Burney to George Eliot); Fanny Burney and the Burneys, etc. Also edited numerous collections of the novels, poems, plays, letters, etc. of many other well-known writers. Died May 18, 1932, in London. Brother of George W. (1876) and Augustine H. (1884), etc. (Scott, MSS.; Who was Who, 1929-40; The Times, May 20, 1932; English Cat. of Books; Cambridge Review, May 27, 1932.) Note (7) Age 44, born Cambridge. Literary Man, with wife Louise Note (8) Jun 1932 Kensington 1a 135 age 65 Copyright © Trumpington Local History Group 2023 Email TLHG Return to TLHG introduction page Name Index