1886 PEWTER MUG TROPHY AWARDED TO FAMOUS ENG. WRITER G.L. CALDERON/RUGBY SCHOOL for Sale

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1886 PEWTER MUG TROPHY AWARDED TO FAMOUS ENG. WRITER G.L. CALDERON/RUGBY SCHOOL For Sale

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1886 PEWTER MUG TROPHY AWARDED TO FAMOUS ENG. WRITER G.L. CALDERON/RUGBY SCHOOL:
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ANTIQUE 1886 GLASS BOTTOM PEWTER TROPHY/MUG
2ND IN SCHOOLHOUSESTEEPLECHASERUGBY 1886
ENGRAVED TO G. L. CALDERON--FAMOUS ENGLISH WRITER
GEORGE LESLIE CALDERON (12/2/1868 -6/4/15) WAS AN ENGLISH WRITER. HE WAS ONE OF THE MOST KNOWLEDGEABLE ENGLISHMEN OF HIS GENERATION ABOUT RUSSIAN LIFE AND LITERATURE. CALDERON WAS BORN IN ST. JOHN\'S WOOD, THE FIFTH SON OF THE VICTORIAN PAINTER PHILLIP HERMOGENES CALDERON AND EDUCATED AT RUGBY AND TRINITY COLLGE, OXFORD, BEFORE TRAINING AS A BARRISTER.
FROM 1895 TO 1897 HE WORKED IN RUSSIA AS A TEACHER, JOURNALIST AND SCHOLAR, THEN RETURNED TO ENGLAND, LEARNED SEVERAL OTHER SLAVONIC LANGUAGES AND IN 1900 BECAME AN ASSITANT LIBRARIAN AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM. DURING THIS TIME HE PURSUED HIS RESEARCH INTO SLAVONIC FOLKLORE, MARRIED AND PUBLISHED MANY STORIES, ARTICLES AND TRANSLATIONS. IN 1903, CALDERON LEFT THE BRITISH MUSEUM TO BECOME A FULL TIME WRITER. IN 1906 HE LIVED FOR TWO MONTHS IN TAHITI.
ON HIS RETURN, HE REGULARLY REVIEWED FOR THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT. CALDERON WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO TRANSLATE INTO ENGLISH AND SUCCESSFULLY DIRECT A FULL-LENGTH PLAY BY ANTON CHEKHOV (THE SEAGULL, AT GLASGOW IN 1909. HE ALSO PUBLISHED NOTABLE TRANSLATIONS OF CHEKHOV AND TOLSTOY, AND WROTE SEVERAL BALLET LIBRETTI FOR MICHEL FOKINE.
BETWEEN 1908 AND 1910 CALDERON WORKED CLOSELY WITH LEADERS OF THE WOMEN\'S NATIONAL ANTI-SUFFRAGE LEAGUE. HIS PLAYS, THE FOUNTAIN, THE LITTLE STONE HOUSE, AND REVOLT WERE PERFORMED ALL OVER BRITIAN BETWEEN 1909 AND 1913.
IN 1914 CALDERON SUCCEEDED IN ENLISTING IN THE BRITISH ARMY AT THE AGE OF 45, SEEING ACTION IN FLANDERS.HE WAS KILLED AT GALLIPOLI ON JUNE 4, 1915]SMALL INDENT ON SIDE/COULD USE A GOOD CLEANING --SEE PHOTOSPLEASE SEE MY OTHER LISTINGS INCLUDING ANTIQUE PEWTER PLATES I WILL BE LISITNG
THANK YOU,JAN