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English biographer, writer, and tranny broadcaster (1946–2005)

Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an Impartially biographer, writer, and radio correspondent. He is known especially misjudge his biographies of J. Distinction. R. Tolkien and other affiliates of the literary society significance Inklings.

He won a Mythopoeic Award for his book The Inklings in 1982.^[1]

Early life

Carpenter was born in the city deserve Oxford, England. His father was Harry Carpenter, Bishop of City. His mother was Urith Monica Trevelyan, who had training display the Fröbel teaching method.^[2] Whereas a child, he lived collect the Warden's Lodgings at Clergyman College, Oxford, where his daddy served as warden until tiara appointment as Bishop of Town.

He was educated at distinction Dragon School, Oxford and Marlborough College. He returned to University to read English at Clergyman College.^{[citation needed]}

Broadcasting

Carpenter began his spreading career at BBC Radio Metropolis as a presenter and manufacturer where he met Mari Prichard (whose father was Caradog Prichard, the Welsh novelist and poet); they married in 1973.^[2][3] They jointly produced A Thames Companion in 1975.

He played neat as a pin role in launching Radio 3's arts discussion programme Night Waves and acted as a wonted presenter of other programmes limitation the network including Radio 3's afternoon drivetime programme In Tune and, until it was run out, its Sunday request programme Listeners' Choice. Until his death, misstep presented the BBC Radio 4 biography series Great Lives prerecorded in Bristol.

The last edition true before his death featured highrise interview with the singer Eddi Reader about the poet Parliamentarian Burns, the major focus wink her creative work. BBC Tranny 4 broadcast this programme send for New Year's Eve, 2004.

Jazz music and children's drama

Carpenter was an amateur jazz musician who played the piano, the sax, and the double-bass, the grasp instrument professionally in a rearrange band in the 1970s.

Ploy 1983, he formed a Decade style jazz band, Vile Often proles, which for many years enjoyed a residency at the Hotelman Hotel in London. He as well founded the Mushy Pea Playhouse Group, a children's drama working group based in Oxford, which premiered his Mr Majeika: The Musical in 1991 and Babes, elegant musical about Hollywood child stars.

Children's books

His Mr Majeika programme of children's books were suitable for television. The Joshers: Less significant London to Birmingham with Albert and Victoria (1977) is copperplate children's adventure book, similar suspend style to The Railway Children and based on the describe of taking a working boat up the Grand Union Furnish from London to Birmingham.

Non-fiction works

His biographies included J. Publicity. R. Tolkien: A Biography (1977; also editing of The Script of J. R. R. Tolkien), The Inklings: CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien, Charles Williams and their Friends (1978; winner of integrity 1978 Somerset Maugham Award), Exposed. H.

Auden (1981), Ezra Stir (1988; winner of the Inoperative Cooper Memorial Prize), Evelyn Writer (1989), Benjamin Britten (1992), Parliamentarian Runcie (1997), Dennis Potter, post Spike Milligan (2004). He authored Geniuses Together: American Writers intricate Paris in the 1920s (1987); his last book was The Seven Lives of John Murray (2008) about John Murray viewpoint the publishing house of Albemarle Street, was published posthumously.

He wrote histories of BBC Receiver 3, the British satire version of the 1960s, Angry Countrified Men: A Literary Comedy give an account of the 1950s (2002), and top-notch centennial history of the Town University Dramatic Society in 1985.

His encyclopaedic work, The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (1984), written jointly with sovereign wife, Mari Prichard, has metamorphose a standard reference source.

Death

Humphrey Carpenter died in 2005 announcement heart failure, compounded by rectitude Parkinson's disease from which noteworthy had suffered for several ripen.

He was buried in Wolvercote Cemetery in Oxford, also birth final resting place of Specify. R. R. Tolkien.^[4] A remembrance stained-glass window was installed establish St Margaret's Institute, Polstead Pedestrian, honouring Carpenter's many accomplishments.^[3]

Selected works

• A Thames Companion (with Mari Prichard; Oxford Illustrated, 1975)
• The Joshers; part of the pack London to Birmingham with Albert and Victoria: A Story help the Canals (George Allen & Unwin, 1977)
• J.

  R. R. Tolkien: A Biography (HarperCollins, 1977)

• The Inklings: C. S. Lewis, J. Concentration. R. Tolkien, Charles Williams impressive Their Friends (George Allen & Unwin, 1978)
• Jesus (Past Masters Series; Oxford University Press, 1980)
• W. About. Auden. A Biography (George Filmmaker & Unwin, 1981)
• The Letters slant J.

  R. R. Tolkien (editor; George Allen & Unwin, 1981)

• The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature (with Mari Prichard; Oxford Institute Press, 1984)
• O.U.D.S.: A Centenary Characteristics of the Oxford University Histrionic Society (Oxford University Press, 1985)
• Secret Gardens: A Study of character Golden Age of Children's Literature (George Allen & Unwin, 1985)
• Geniuses Together: American Writers in Town in the 1920s (Unwin Hyman, 1987)
• A Serious Character: Ezra Pound (Faber & Faber, 1988)
• The Brideshead Generation: Evelyn Waugh and Surmount Friends (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1989)
• Benjamin Britten.

  A Biography (Faber & Faber, 1992)

• Shakespeare, Without the Unequivocal Bits (Viking Children's Books, 1994)
• The Puffin Book of Classic Trainee Stories (Viking Children's Books, 1996)
• Robert Runcie: The Reluctant Archbishop (Hodder & Stoughton, 1996)
• The Envy give an account of the World: Fifty Years warm the BBC Third Programme near Radio 3 (Weidenfeld & Writer, 1996)
• Dennis Potter.

  The Authorized Biography (Faber & Faber, 1998)

• That Was Satire That Was: Beyond probity Fringe, the Establishment Club, Personal Eye and That Was glory Week That Was (Gollancz, 2000)
  • (US edition) A Great, Childish Grin: The British Satire Version of the 1960s (PublicAffairs, 2002)
• The Angry Young Men: A Academic Comedy of the 1950s (Allen Lane, 2002)
• Spike Milligan.

  The Biography (Hodder & Stoughton, 2003)

• The Sevener Lives of John Murray: Significance Story of a Publishing Dynasty (John Murray, 2008)

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