JOHN OXENHAM DEAD

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLIX, Issue 21872, 27 January 1941, Page 10

JOHN OXENHAM DEAD

Noted British Author By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, January 24. The death of Mr John Oxenham, the noted writer, has been announced. He was over 80 years of age. John Oxenham was educated at Old Trafford School and at Victoria College, Manchester. He went into business and lived for some years in France and the United States, travelling over the greater part of Europe and Canada. He visited the Southern States with a view to starting orangegrowing or sheep-raising, but decided against them and went back to England. He took to writing as an alternative to and as an alleviate from business, and found it so much more enjoyable than business that he “dropped business and stuck to writing.” I-s publications included: “God’s Prisoner” (1898), "Rising Fortunes,” "A Princess in Vascony,” “Our Lady of Deliverance,” "John of Gerisau,” “Under the Iron Flail” (all before 1902). He continued to produce books at the rate of twp and sometimes three a year, and his last was “Christ and the Third Wise Man,” in 1934.