Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew

Rt Rev Msgr Count Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew, CBE, LLD (born Francis Browning Bickerstaffe) K.H.S., better known as John Ayscough,[1][2] (11 February 1858 – 3 July 1928) was a British writer[3] and Roman Catholic priest.

The Right Reverend

Monsignor Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew

K.H.S.
Born11 February 1858
Died3 July 1928 (aged 70)
Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
NationalityBritish
OccupationCleric, author
ReligionRoman Catholic
Ordained1884
TitleRt Rev Msgr

Biography

Born in Headingley, Leeds, the younger son of Harry Lloyd Bickerstaffe, an Anglican cleric, and Elisabeth Mona Brougham Drew, the daughter of daughter of Rev. Pierce Drew of Heathfield Towers, Muckridge, Youghal, County Cork, Ireland.[4] He had one sibling, an elder brother, Pierce.[5]

In 1878, he converted to Roman Catholicism, while an undergraduate at Pembroke College, Oxford. Bickerstaffe-Drew was ordained as a Catholic priest in 1884 and served as a chaplain in the British Army for more than thirty years. He was made a private Papal Chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII in 1891 and by Pius X in 1903, was a member of the Pontifical Chamber of Malta.[6]

Rt Rev Msgr Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew died in Salisbury, England on 3 July 1928, aged 70.

Distinctions

Works
  • Oremus: or, Little Mildred (1880).
  • Dominus Vobiscum: or, The Sailor Boy (1880).
  • Veni Creator; or, Ulrich's Money (1881).
  • Pater Noster; or, An Orphan Boy (1881).
  • Per Jesum Christum: or, Two Good Fridays (1881).
  • Ave Maria; or, Catesby's Story (1882).
  • Credo; or, Justin's Martyrdom (1882).
  • Ora Pro Nobis (1883).
  • Marotz (1908).
  • Mr. Beke of the Blacks (1908).
  • Dromina (1909).
  • A Roman Tragedy and Others (1909).
  • San Celestino (1909).
  • Outsiders—and In (1910).
  • Mezzogiorno (1911).
  • Hurdcott (1911).
  • Faustula N. A.D. 340 (1912).
  • Gracechurch (1913).
  • Monksbridge (1914).
  • Prodigals and Sons (1914).
  • French Windows (1918).
  • Jacqueline (1918).
  • The Tideway (1918).
  • Fernando (1919).
  • Abbotscourt (1920).
  • First Impressions in America (1921).
  • Discourses and Essays (1922).
  • Mariquita (1922).
  • Pages from the Past (1922).
  • Dobachi (1923).

Selected articles

Short stories

References
  1. Halkett, Samuel & John Laing (1956). Dictionary of Anonymous and Pseudonymous English Literature. New York: Haskell House Publishers, pp. 135, 169.
  2. Room, Adrian (2010). Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, Inc., p. 40.
  3. Keller, Leo W. (1920). "John Ayscough, Novelist," The Catholic World, Vol. CXI, pp. 164–173.
  4. Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley (10 June 1908). "The Catholic Who's who and Yearbook". Burns & Oates – via Google Books.
  5. Gorman, W. Gordon (1910). Converts to Rome. London: Sands & Co., pp. 23, 33.
  6. "The Rt Rev Msgr Count Francis Bickerstaffe-Drew, LL.D.," The Notre Dame Alumnus, Vol. VII, No. 1, September 1928, p. 16.

Further reading
  • Adams, J.R. (1922). "The Modern Catholic Novel," The American Catholic Quarterly Review, Vol. XLVII, pp. 130–135.
  • Bickerstaffe-Drew, F. (1919). John Ayscough's Letters to his Mother during 1914, 1915 and 1916. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons.
  • Braybrooke, Patrick (1931). "John Ayscough; Priest and Novelist." In: Some Catholic Novelists: Their Art and Outlook. London: Burns, Oats & Washbourne, Ltd.
  • Gerrard, Thomas J. (1911). "The Real Romance of Life," The Catholic World, Vol. XCIII, No. 553, pp. 1–16.
  • Martin, Arthur A. (1915). A Surgeon in Khaki. London: Edward Arnold.
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