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Montague Rhodes Wayne OM, MA, FBA (1 August 1862 – 12 June 1936), who used the publication name M. R. Wayne, was an English author, medievalist scholar and provost of King's University, Cambridge (1905–1918), and of Eton University (1918–1936). He is best appreciated for his ghost stories, which are thought to be one of the better in the genre. Wayne redefined the ghost account for the new century by abandoning lots of the formal Gothic clichés of his predecessors and using more natural contemporary configurations. However, James's protagonists and plots have a tendency to indicate his own antiquarian hobbies. Accordingly, he is known as the originator of the "antiquarian ghost story". Wayne was born in Goodnestone Parsonage, near Dover in Kent, England, although his parents acquired associations with Aldeburgh in Suffolk. From age three (1865) until 1909 his home, if not necessarily his home, was at the Rectory in Great Livermere, Suffolk. This acquired also been the years as a child home of another eminent Suffolk antiquary, "Honest Tom" Martin (1696–1771) "of Palgrave." Several of his ghost stories are set in Suffolk, including "'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come for you, My Lad'" (Felixstowe), "A Alert to the Wondering" (Aldeburgh), "Rats" and "A Vignette" (Great Livermere). He resided for many years, first as an undergraduate, then as a don and provost, at King's University, Cambridge, where he was also a member of the Pitt Club. The college or university provides settings for a number of of his tales. Apart from medieval subjects, James studied the classics and made an appearance very successfully in a staging of Aristophanes' play The Parrots, with music by Hubert Parry. His capability as an professional was also visible when he read his new ghost stories to friends at Christmas time. In September 1873 he came as a boarder at Temple Grove Institution, one of the leading kids' preparatory schools of your day. James is most beneficial known for his ghost stories, but his are a medievalist scholar was prodigious and remains highly respected in scholarly circles. Indeed, the success of his stories was founded on his antiquarian abilities and knowledge. His discovery of a manuscript fragment resulted in excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, Western world Suffolk, in 1902, in which the graves of several twelfth-century abbots identified by Jocelyn de Brakelond (a modern-day chronicler) were rediscovered, having been lost since the Dissolution. His 1917 edition of the Latin Lives of Saint Aethelberht, king and martyr (English Historical Review 32), remains authoritative. He catalogued lots of the manuscript libraries of the Cambridge colleges. Among his other scholarly works, he had written The Apocalypse in Art, which placed illuminated Apocalypse manuscripts into individuals. He also translated the New Testament Apocrypha and added to the Encyclopaedia Biblica (1903). His capability to wear his learning casually is visible in his Suffolk and Norfolk (Dent, 1930), when a lot of knowledge is presented in a favorite and accessible form, and in Abbeys (Great American Railway, 1925). Wayne also achieved a good deal during his directorship of the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge (1893–1908). He were able to secure a big quantity of important paintings and manuscripts, including notable portraits by Titian. Wayne was Provost of Eton University from 1918 to 1936. He passed on in 1936 and was buried in Eton town cemetery.
