Amyas Stafford Northcote (1864–1923) was a British writer from an aristocratic family.

Family

Northcote was the youngest child and seventh son of Sir

Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh Stafford Henry Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (27 October 1818 – 12 January 1887), known as Sir Stafford Northcote, 8th Baronet from 1851 to 1885, was a British Conservative Party (UK), Conservative politician. He was Chancellor of the E ...

(the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Disraeli) and his wife Cecilia Frances Farrer, sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer. He married Helen May Dudley on 14 May 1890. The couple had two children, a daughter Cecilia and a son the Rev. Dudley Northcote, both of whom died unmarried.

Career

Northcote spent some time in

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, running a small business there. He wrote

ghost stories A ghost story is any piece of fiction, or drama, that includes a ghost, or simply takes as a premise the possibility of ghosts or characters' belief in them."Ghost Stories" in Margaret Drabble (ed.), ''Oxford Companion to English Literature''. ...

in the line of those of

M. R. James Montague Rhodes James (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936) was an English medievalist scholar and author who served as provost of King's College, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton College (1918–1936) as well as Vice-Chancellor of the Univers ...

, which were compiled in his only book, ''In Ghostly Company''. Richard Dalby, ''The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2''. Carroll and Graf, (p.417). Wordsworth Editions author page. He was for several years a Justice of the Peace in

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.Neil Wilson, ''Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950''. British Library, London, 2000. . (p. 383)

References

English writers British ghost story writers 1864 births 1923 deaths

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