George Green Loane

George Green Loane (1865 – 17 May 1945) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor, and author.

Trinity College, Dublin

Trinity College, Cambridge

St Paul's School, Hammersmith

Early life

A son of the Reverend Richard Hussey Loane, of Rushbrook, Queenstown,^[1] by his marriage in 1859 to Jane Green,^[2] Loane was born at Cork and educated at Midleton College, the Royal College, Armagh, Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar and a gold medallist, and finally at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted there as a sizar in October 1890, gained a scholarship in 1892, and graduated BA with first class honours in the Classical Tripos in 1893, proceeding to MA in 1898.^[1][3]

Life and career

Loane was a schoolmaster at St Paul's School, which was then in Hammersmith, from 1893 to 1925, serving as a housemaster from 1901 to 1908.^[4][1]

Loane edited and wrote a number of books, mostly for use in schools. His Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century (1897) and A Short Handbook of Literary Terms (1900) both had multiple editions.^[5]

On 27 December 1900, Loane married Edith Armitage, a daughter of the Rev. William Firth Armitage, vicar of Scotforth, Lancashire, at Scotforth.^[6][2] Their daughter Alice Margaret was born at Fulham in 1902,^[7] and another daughter, Joan Edith, in 1904.^[8] After retiring from St Paul's, Loane settled in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he died in 1945.^[9] Joan Edith married Francis Wood Smith at St George's, Hanover Square in 1933.^[10]

Selected publications

• George Green Loane, ed., Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century (1897, several editions)
• George Green Loane, A Short Handbook of Literary Terms (1900, a further 14 editions until 1976)
• George Green Loane, ed., Livy: Book XXI, with Introduction, Notes &c (Blackie, reprinted 1986)
• George Green Loane, ed., Selected English Essays (London: Dent, The Kings Treasuries of Literature series, 1921)
• George G. Loane, M.A., Longer Narrative Poems (18th Century) edited for Schools (1921)
• George Green Loane, A Book of Story Poems (University of California Libraries, 1921)
• George Green Loane More English essays (1928, new edition 1941)
• George Green Loane, Echoes in Tennyson, and Other Essays (London: Stockwell, 1928)
• George G. Loane, "Chapman's Homer", The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 156 (1937), pp. 637–640
• George G. Loane, "Misprints in Chapman's Homer", Notes and Queries 173 (1937), pp. 398–402