(pseudonym, John Ayscough) (1858 -1928 ) Writer, born Headingly, Leeds, England ; died Salisbury. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; became a Catholic, 26 October 1878 ; and was ordained, 1884 . In 1891 he was appointed private chamberlain to Leo XIII; in 1903 , private chamberlain to Pius X; in 1904 , domestic prelate; in 1909 , Knight of the Holy Sepulcher and Count. He served as military chaplain at Plymouth, 1892 -1899 , at Malta, 1899 -1905 , and at Salisbury Plain, 1905 -1909 . During the World War he served with distinction. In 1918 he became assistant principal chaplain royal, and in 1919 , Commander of the British Empire. Under the name of John Ayscough he published several novels, including “Marotz,” “Dromina,” “San Celestino,” “Hurdcott,” “Jacqueline,” and “Abbotscourt”; short stories, among them those in a “Roman Tragedy” and “Prodigals and Sons”; and essays, notably “Saints and Places,” “Levia Pondera,” and “French Windows.” <\/p>\n
Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew (pseudonym, John Ayscough) (1858 -1928 ) Writer, born Headingly, Leeds, England ; died Salisbury. He was educated at Pembroke College, Oxford; became a Catholic, 26 October 1878 ; and was ordained, 1884 . In 1891 he was appointed private chamberlain to Leo XIII; in 1903 , private chamberlain to Pius X; in 1904 … Continue reading “Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}