Tom Gallon
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Born | Thomas Henry Gallon 5 December 1866 Bermondsey, London, England |
Died | 4 November 1914 London, England | (aged 47)
Occupation | Writer |
Thomas Henry Gallon (5 December 1866 – 4 November 1914) was a British playwright and novelist. He was the brother of author and publicist Nellie Tom-Gallon, who founded the Tom-Gallon Trust Award[1] for beginning writers in memory of her brother.
Biography
Tom Gallon was born in Bermondsey, London, the son of John P. Gallon (an engineer, fitter and turner) and his wife Martha K. Gallon.[2]
Several of Tom Gallon's novels were adapted as films including The Princess of Happy Chance (1916), Meg the Lady (1916), The Cruise of the Make-Believes (1918), The Lackey and the Lady (1919), A Rogue in Love (1922), Boden's Boy (1923), Off the Highway (1925, based on Tatterley), The Great Gay Road (1920, silent) and The Great Gay Road (1931, sound).[2]
He died in London on 4 November 1914.[3]
Selected works
Novels
- Tatterley (1897)
- The Golden Thread (1904)
- Meg the Lady (1905)
- Jimmy Quixote (1906)
- The Great Gay Road (1910)
- The Touch of A Child (1910)
- The Mystery of Roger Bullock (1910)
- The Rogue's Heiress (1910)
- As He was Born (1911)
- Dead Man's Love (1911)
- By the Name of Miss Smith (1912)
- Levity Hicks (1912)
- Memory Corner (1912)
- Young Eve and Old Adam (1913)
- "It Will Be All Right!" (1914)
- The Man in Motley (1915)
- The Princess of Happy Chance (1915)
- The Diamond Trail (1916)
- The Man Hunt (1916)
- The Lady in the Black Mask (1917)
Plays
- The Man Who Stole the Castle, by Gallon and Leon M. Lion (Garrick Theatre, 1900)
- Memory's Garden (1902)
- Lady Jane's Christmas Party (Garrick Theatre, 1904)
- Law and Order (Palace Theatre, 1908)
- The Great Gay Road (Court Theatre, 1911)
- Aurora's Captive (Prince of Wales Theatre, 1913)
- All's Fair (Tivoli Musichall, 1913)
- Felix Gets a Month, Gallon and Lion (Haymarket Theatre, 1917)
- Pistols For Two, Gallon and Lion (Coliseum, 1917)
References
- ^ The Tom-Gallon Trust Award at The Society of Authors.
- ^ a b "Tom Gallon". 24 August 2007. Bear Alley (blog). Steve (steve@bearalley.co.uk).
- ^ "Tom Gallon, English Novelist, Dead". The Boston Globe. London. 4 November 1914. p. 10. Retrieved 26 November 2023 – via Newspapers.com.
External links
- Tom Gallon at Fantastic Fiction – bibliography with cover images]
- Works by Tom Gallon at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Tom Gallon at Internet Archive
- Tom Gallon at IMDb
- Tom Gallon at Library of Congress, with 18 library catalogue records
- Play by Tom Gallon at Great War Theatre
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