Cranmer-Byng, L.

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works
FirstName / namefirst	Launcelot
LastName / namelast	Cranmer-Byng
MainNamePhon	Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng
SortName	Cranmer-Byng, Launcelot
bio	Launcelot Alfred Cranmer-Byng (23 November 1872 – 15 January 1945) was an author and sinologist. He was a member of the Byng baronets family, landowners in Essex. His father was Lt. Col. Alfred Molyneaux Cranmer-Byng and his mother was Caroline Mary Tufnell. His brother Hugh Edward Cranmer-Byng (1873–1949) was also an author and playwright. Both brothers were brought up at Quendon Hall in Newport, Essex. Launcelot was educated at Wellington College and Trinity College, Cambridge. From around 1912, the two brothers were associated with the 'Warwick Circle' at Easton Lodge, whose other members included H. G. Wells, Ramsay MacDonald and the folk song collector Cecil Sharp. Cranmer-Byng is best known for The Never Ending Wrong (1902), The Odes of Confucius (1908) and Lute of Jade: Selections from the Classical Poets of China (1909). Salma (1923), was a play in three acts with a Persian setting, produced in Birmingham. A Feast of Lanterns (1936), published as part of John Murray's long-running Wisdom of the East series, of which he was a founder and editor, is a later anthology of ancient Chinese poetry, introduced and translated by Cranmer-Byng. His translations of Chinese poetry were set to music by composers including Granville Bantock (Songs from the Chinese Poets), Rebecca Clarke, Bernard van Dieren, Harry Farjeon (The Lute of Jade song cycle, 1917), Charles Tomlinson Griffes (Five Poems of Ancient China and Japan, 1917) and Peter Warlock ('Along the Stream' from Saudades, 1923). Cranmer-Byng served in World War I as a captain. His first wife died in 1913 and he married Daisy Elaine Beach in 1916. There was one son, John Launcelot Cranmer-Byng (1919–1999). They lived at Horham Hall[3] and at Foley Mill, Thaxted in Essex. Cranmer-Byng, a long-term county Alderman and Justice of the peace, died at Great Easton, near Dunmow, at the age of 72. (Source Accessed Nov 25, 2024)
YearBirth	1872
YearDeath	1945
IsInGyatsa	No
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