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John Moore (British writer)

British author (1907-1967)

John Moore
Born	(1907-11-10)10 November 1907 Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England
Died	27 July 1967(1967-07-27) (aged 59) Bristol, England
Occupation	Author
Subject	Countryside, Rural Life
Spouse	Lucile Douglas Stephens (m. 1 April 1944)

John Cecil Moore (10 November 1907 – 27 July 1967) was a best-selling British writer and pioneer conservationist. He was described by Sir Compton Mackenzie as the most talented writer about the countryside of his generation. His best-selling trilogy, published in the years immediately after the Second World War – Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village and The Blue Field – was followed by a series of novels and self-styled 'country-contentments'.^[1]

Literary career

Moore was the author of more than 40 published works, most of which explored themes relating to rural life in the first half of the 20th century. He also wrote the script of the 1957 film The England of Elizabeth, which is noted for its score compose

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John Moore

John Moore (1907-67) was brought up in Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire, in the oak-beamed Tudor House, 'the loveliest house in Elmbury' (his name for Tewkesbury in a later trilogy of books about it). Literature and the natural world were his focus but, aged 16, he went in to the family business. 'From the clients of a country auctioneer he received an education more liberal than that offered by most universities' (the writer Eric Linklater). He wrote poems and articles, published his first novel at the age of 23 and an excellent life of Edward Thomas in 1939. He joined the Fleet Air Arm and later wrote several books on aspects of the war. The trilogy Portrait of Elmbury came out in the 1940s. Very active in local life, he founded the Cheltenham Festival of Literature. The Waters under the Earth (1965) was the last of his forty books.

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The life of John Moore

John was born near Tewkesbury in 1907 and educated at Malvern. As he himself said, his half-hearted efforts in school and in business were always overshadowed by his keen love of nature study and his irrepressible passion for writing, encouraged by his school masters at ‘The Elms,’ Colwall.
A founder member of the Cheltenham Literary Festival, and for some years its chairman, many of John’s country books are set around Tewkesbury, where he lived for a major part of his life, and where he wrote the trilogy of books that were to establish him as a leading writer on the English countryside: Portrait of Elmbury, Brensham Village, and The Blue Field.
John Moore died in the summer of 1967, and a few days later Sir Compton Mackenzie wrote to The Times: “His death is a tragedy – for the English countryside. No writer in these days, when the English countryside is being slowly exterminated to gratify material progress, was able to preserve what life is left to it with the eloquent and accurate observati