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William Gosse Hay (1875–1945) was an Australian author and essayist. ==History== W. G. Hay was born on 17 November 1875 at "Linden" in the eastern suburbs of Adelaide, the second son of Alexander Hay〔Andrew Gosse Hay, ('Hay, Alexander (1820–1898)' ), ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'', Volume 1, Melbourne University Press, 1966, p. 525.〕 a wealthy merchant, pastoralist and politician, and his second wife Agnes Grant Hay, née Gosse. He was educated by a private tutor on his parents' cattle station, then at Melbourne Grammar School, subsequently at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he studied law. William Gosse Hay and Mary Violet Williams were married on 26 October 1901 at the chapel of St. Peter's College, where her late father, Rev. Francis Williams, had been head master. They lived until 1924 Beaumont then Victor Harbor.〔(Wedding group ) of the writer William Gosse Hay and Mary Violet Williams, who were married on 26 October 1901 at St Peter's College Chapel. They lived for many years at Victor Harbor. nla.gov.au (Photo )〕 Hay's mother and sister were lost at sea aboard the SS Waratah in July 1909. In 1911, as administrator of the estate of his brother Alexander Gosse Hay (1874–1901), he was involved in legal argument related to the insurance paid out on the destruction by fire of his parents' Victor Harbor home "Mt. Breckan", to which he had an option to purchase.〔 〕 He suffered a breakdown and that same year he and his wife visited Tasmania, where he gathered historic material for his writing.〔(Family Picnic ), nla.gov.au〕 He died 21 March 1945 at Victor Harbor〔(Hay, William Gosse ), www.austlit.edu.au〕 after collapsing during an attempt to save his home from bushfire.〔 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「William Hay (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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