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Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (; 21 November 1863 – 12 May 1944) was a British writer who published using the pseudonym Q. Although a prolific novelist, he is remembered mainly for the monumental publication ''The Oxford Book Of English Verse 1250–1900'' (later extended to 1918) and for his literary criticism. He influenced many who never met him, including American writer Helene Hanff, author of ''84, Charing Cross Road'' and its sequel, ''Q's Legacy''; and the fictional Horace Rumpole. ==Life== Quiller-Couch was born in the town of Bodmin, Cornwall, by the union of two ancient local families, the Quiller family and the Couch family, and was the third in a line of intellectuals from the Couch family. His younger sisters Florence Mabel and Lilian M. were also writers and folklorists. His father, Dr. Thomas Quiller Couch (d. 1884), was a noted physician, folklorist and historian.〔 He married Mary Ford and lived at 63, Fore Street, Bodmin, until his death in 1884.〔Brittain (1947), p. 2〕 His grandfather, Jonathan Couch, was an eminent naturalist, also a physician, historian, classicist, apothecary, and illustrator (particularly of fish). His son, Bevil Brian Quiller-Couch, was a war hero and poet, whose romantic letters to his fiancée, the poet May Wedderburn Cannan, were published in ''Tears of War''. He also had a daughter, Foy Felicia, to whom Kenneth Grahame inscribed a first edition of his ''The Wind in the Willows'' attributing Quiller-Couch as the inspiration for the character Ratty.〔Auctioned by Bonhams on Tuesday 23 March 2010 for £32,400: 〕 He was educated at Newton Abbot Preparatory College, at Clifton College, and Trinity College, Oxford, and later became a lecturer there. After being granted his degree in 1886 he was for a brief time classical lecturer at Trinity. After some journalistic experience in London, mainly as a contributor to the ''Speaker'', he settled in 1891 at Fowey in Cornwall. In Cornwall he was an active political worker for the Liberal Party. He was knighted in 1910, and in 1928 was made a Bard of the Cornish cultural society Gorseth Kernow, adopting the Bardic name ''Marghak Cough'' ('Red Knight'). He was Commodore of the Royal Fowey Yacht Club from 1911 until his death. Quiller-Couch died in a road accident in May 1944 after being hit by a jeep near his home in Cornwall. He is buried in Fowey's parish church of St. Fimbarrus.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch - Find a Grave )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Arthur Quiller-Couch」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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