Chartres, John, 1862-1927
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Name (Latin)
Chartres, John, 1862-1927
Other forms of name
Chartres, J. S. (John Smith), 1862-1927
Date of birth
1862-10-05
Date of death
1927-05-14
Field of activity
Civil service
Ireland--Politics and government
Journalism
Law--Interpretation and construction
Translating and interpreting
Occupation
Translators
Civil service
Diplomats
Journalists
Lawyers
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- Dempsey, Pauric J. "Chartres, John Smith," in Dictionary of Irish Biography, 2009, via http://dib.cambridge.org, Feb. 11, 2016:v. 2, pages 477-478 (Chartres, John Smith (1862-1927), lawyer, civil servant, and diplomat; born 5 October 1862 in Birkenhead, Wirrall, England; died 14 May 1927, Dublin; called to the bar of England and Wales in January 1908; practice was on the south-eastern circuit; wrote several law books, largely of judicial interpretations; in 1904, appointed the first head of the Times' intelligence (news research, indexing, and reference) department; remained there until 1914, when he became an economic correspondent for the Daily Graphic; when the Ministry of Munitions was set up (June 1915), he was appointed to its intelligence and record branch; after the war he joined the Ministry of Labour; became involved in Irish politics in 1917, contributing articles to Arthur Griffith's newspaper Nationality under the pseudonym "HI" (haud immemor, "let them not be forgotten"); in 1918, recruited by Michael Collins as an informant; in 1920, transferred to the Irish branch of the Ministry of Labour; in 1920, retired from the British civil service and became the [Irish] Republican envoy or consul to Berlin, but soon recalled to become second secretary to the Irish treaty delegation; under the name Edward Seaton, published The bloody English serially in the U.S.; in March-June, 1922, envoy in Paris; in 1922, post in Berlin terminated and he returned to Dublin; in 1923, appointed to the statistical committee of the Irish Department of Industry and Commerce, and later made editor of the Irish Trade Journal; in 1927, under the pen name "Fear Faire" ("The Watcher"), wrote three articles for the Nation)
- Encyclopedia of literary translation into English, 2000:page 916 (The Heptameron of the tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, London : Society of English Bibliophilists, 1894, translated by John Smith Chartres) page 449 (Flaubert, Gustave, Salambo, 1886, translated by J.S. Chartres)
- Marguerite, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of Navarre. The Heptameron of the tales of Margaret, Queen of Navarre, 1898(name not given; page opposite title page: "The translation ... was first issued by the Society of English Bibliophilists in 1894")
- The Irish press (Philadelphia, Pa.), Jan. 7, 1922, via ActivePaper Archive (Villanova University), Feb. 11, 2016:page 5 (caption title: The bloody English, by Edward Seaton)
- VIAF, Feb. 11, 2016:VIAF ID: 20491630 20491630 (Chartres, John, 1862-1927: German National Library, ISNI, Library of Congress/NACO; Chartres, John Smith 1862-1927: National Library of France; Chartres, John (John Smith) 1862-1927: National Library of Ireland) VIAF ID: 315632127 (Chartres, John Smith: National Library of Ireland)
- Murphy, B. John Chartres, c1995:t.p. (John Chartres) p. 15 (John Smith Chartres; b. 1862) p. 150 (d. 1927)
- OCLC, 10/20/95(hdgs.: Chartres, John; Chartres, John Smith; usage: John Chartres; J.S. Chartres)