Background
He was born in Dublin, the son of an Irish solicitor, and went to Rugby School in 1903 and then in 1907 to the University of Oxford, where he studied history.
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006D7JOG/?tag=2022091-20
(Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote ...)
Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is Siamese White - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria.' Evening Standard
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0571240860/?tag=2022091-20
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081121169X/?tag=2022091-20
(Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote ...)
Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote during his wide-ranging literary career is ""Siamese White"" - an account of the career of Samuel White of Bath who, during the reign of James II, was appointed by the King of Siam as a mandarin of that country. The book superbly embodies that old adage - truth is stranger than fiction. 'A magnificent story, full of interest and excitement, but there is more to it than that. Collis, who has lived for years on the scene of these high happenings, is able to give us a first-hand picture of a fascinating land: of a lovely archipelago, of rivers and rapids, of an immemorial track through jungles haunted by tigers and malaria' - ""Evening Standard"".
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906011125/?tag=2022091-20
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1443720658/?tag=2022091-20
administrator commissioner magistrate
He was born in Dublin, the son of an Irish solicitor, and went to Rugby School in 1903 and then in 1907 to the University of Oxford, where he studied history.
Rugby School.
He entered the Indian Civil Service in 1911 and was posted to Burma in 1912. He had postings at Sagaing and elsewhere. In 1917, the British army raised a Burmese brigade with which Collis went to Palestine, but he saw no action.
In 1919, he went on leave and travelled in Europe.
In the 1920s he was district commissioner in Arakan. In 1929-1930, a period when relations between Burmese, Indians and British became particularly difficult, he was district magistrate in Rangoon.
This period is narrated in his memoir Trials in Burma. He gives special attention to the political trial of J. M. Senator Gupta, mayor of Calcutta, for sedition in impromptu speeches made during a brief visit to Rangoon in 1930.
Also to two criminal trials which became politically charged because they brought to light underlying attitudes of British merchants and army officers to Burmese people.
Collis"s judgments were (according to his own analysis) too independent to be pleasing to the then British Government of Burma, arousing the particular disapproval of his superior, Booth Gravely, Commissioner of the Pegu Division. After giving judgment in the last of these trials Collis was hastily moved to the post of Excise Commissioner. After returning to England in 1934, he wrote many books, including and Foreign Mud, as well as art and literary criticism.
At the age of 65 he turned his hand to painting.
(Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote ...)
(Foremost among the biographies that Maurice Collis wrote ...)
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
(DJ is a bit worn to edges, with slight loss. Bookplate to...)
(Stanley Spencer: A Biography)
(. with dw, 1968, 285pp)