Ernest Gilliat-Smith
Born
Frederick Ernest Gilliat-Smith

(1858-07-08)8 July 1858
Woodmansterne, England
Died22 February 1935(1935-02-22) (aged 76)
Newbury, England
OccupationWriter
SpouseElinor Cockerell
Children3

Frederick Ernest Gilliat-Smith (1858–1935) was an English Catholic poet and author of historical non-fiction.

Life

Gilliat-Smith was born in Woodmansterne, Surrey, on 8 July 1858. He converted to Catholicism in 1879 and pursued a literary career. He married Elinor Cockerell, with whom he had three children, Bernard, Guy[1] and Monica. After living some years in Bruges, Belgium, he moved to Rome in 1913. He died at home in Newbury, Berkshire, on 22 February 1935.[2]

Publications

Gilliat-Smith was a contributor to the Dublin Review, The Tablet, the American Ecclesiastical Review, the Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Catholic World, and the Catholic Encyclopedia. His independent publications include:

  • Songs from Prudentius (London, John Lane, 1898)
  • Fantasies from Dreamland (London, 1899)
  • Story of Bruges, illustrated by Edith Calvert and Herbert Railton (London, J.M. Dent, 1901).[3]
  • Story of Brussels, illustrated by Katharine Kimball and Guy Gilliat-Smith (London, J.M. Dent, 1906).[4]
  • St. Clare of Assisi (London, J.M. Dent, 1914).[5]
  • Some Notes, Historical and Otherwise, concerning the Sacred Constantinian Order (London, J.M. Dent, 1922).[6]
  • Saint Anthony of Padua according to his contemporaries (London & Toronto, J.M. Dent; New York, E.P. Dutton, 1926).[7]

References

  1. ↑ Burnand, Francis Cowley. The Catholic Who's Who and Yearbook, Volume 17, 1924, p. 185
  2. ↑ Obituary in The Tablet, 2 March 1935, p. 19.
  3. ↑ Story of Bruges at Internet Archive.
  4. ↑ Story of Brussels at Internet Archive.
  5. ↑ St. Clare of Assisi at Internet Archive.
  6. ↑ Some Notes at Internet Archive.
  7. ↑ "Gilliat-Smith, Ernest". id.loc.gov. Library of Congress.
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