Charles James Billson
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| Born | 1858 | ||||||||
| Died | 1932 | ||||||||
| Residence |
The Wayside, Oadby, Leicester Silchester House, Silchester, Reading [1911] The Priory, Martyr Worthy, Winchester [1913] 33 St Anne's Road, Eastbourne [1919] | ||||||||
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Proposed by E.S. Hartland, seconded by John Gray, 1907.04.03
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Charles James Billson (1858–1932) was a translator, lawyer, and collector of folklore.
Billson was born in Leicester, graduated from Oxford University, and died in Heathfield in Sussex. He is buried in All Saints Church yard. His works include a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, and a noted paper on the Easter Hare. He began a correspondence with Herman Melville, after requesting a reading list from the great author, and introduced him to works by the then obscure poet James Thomson. Billson forwarded his correspondence to Melville's biographers.[1]
Charles J. Billson was President (1893–94) of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.[2]
Publications
External Publications
(1895) County Folk-Lore - Leicestershire and Rutland, London, Folk Lore Society
(1920) Mediaeval Leicester, Edgar Backus, Leicester
(1924) Leicester Memoirs, Edgar Backus, Leicester
The popular poetry of the Finns / by Charles J. Billson.
The Aeneid of Virgil; with a Translation by Charles J. Billson,
