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Philip Campbell Beatson Newington (1888 – 1964) was the author of a cookery book celebrating Malaysian food, something he conceived while starving as a prisoner of war at the Sime Road Camp in Singapore between 1942 and 1945.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Malaysia )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wartime Kitchen )〕 During his incarceration, Newington founded a Gourmet Club, ''Good Food'', for him and his fellow prisoners; the Club celebrated, in precise detail, cooking and eating imaginary meals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Food Culture in Colonial Asia )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Private Papers P C B Newington (Documents.7620) )〕 A book of his experience and the recipes remembered and created, ''Good Food'', was published in 1947.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Good food )〕 Always curious of the culture of his adopted home he was, before and after the War, a contributor to journals on his experiences of local customs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sarawak Museum Journal )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Proceedings of the ... International Symposium on Asian Studies )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sarawak Museum Journal )〕 ==Life== Newington was baptised on 10 July 1888,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History Records at Ancestry.co.uk )〕 the son of Charles Douglas Godfrey Newington and his wife, Frances Maria Newington.〔 He was educated at Bedford Modern School.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Malaysia )〕 Newington began his career in the Malayan Civil Service.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Janus: Archives of the British Association of Malaysia and Singapore )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Colonial Office List for ... )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Malaysia )〕 He was curious about Malayan culture and was a contributor to many journals during his time as an expatriate.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A Borneo Journey Into Death )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=The Sarawak Museum Journal )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Acts of Integration, Expressions of Faith )〕 Newington later became a plantation owner in Sarawak〔 and was a prisoner of war in Singapore between 1942 and 1945.〔 He was initially interned at the Changi Prison〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Good food (11 / 1298) )〕 where he witnessed the so-called Double Tenth incident and kept an extant notebook of his experience.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Private Papers P C B Newington (Documents.7620) )〕 After Changi he was transferred to the Sime Road Camp where he founded a gourmet club, ''Good Food'', which celebrated cooking and eating imaginary meals.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Wartime Kitchen )〕 In his book, ''Wartime Kitchen'', Hong Suen Wong explained that ‘Revelling in the finer details of food and dining in a systematic way…became a way for the prisoners to relieve their hunger and to sustain them psychologically’.〔 A book of Newington's experience in the prison of war camp, ''Good Food'', was published in 1947.〔 In 1919 Newington married Valerie Murray Henderson.〔http://www.pustaka-sarawak.com/gazette/gazette_uploaded/1370831200.pdf〕 He was a prominent Rotarian〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Witness to history )〕 and died in Ipoh on 15 May 1964.〔 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「P.C.B. Newington」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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