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{{Infobox rai-fellow
| first_name = Charles James
| name = Billson
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Billson,_Charles_James.jpg
| birth_date = 1858
| death_date = 1932
| address = The Wayside, Oadby, Leicester<br />Silchester House, Silchester, Reading [1911]<br />The Priory, Martyr Worthy, Winchester [1913]<br />33 St Anne's Road, Eastbourne [1919]<br />
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1907.06.03
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1919 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by E.S. Hartland, seconded by John Gray, 1907.04.03<br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Charles James Billson (1858–1932) was a translator, lawyer, and collector of folklore.<br />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]<br />Charles J. Billson was President (1893–94) of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.[2]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
<br />(1895) County Folk-Lore - Leicestershire and Rutland, London, Folk Lore Society <br />(1920) Mediaeval Leicester, Edgar Backus, Leicester <br />(1924) Leicester Memoirs, Edgar Backus, Leicester<br /><br />The popular poetry of the Finns / by Charles J. Billson. <br /><br />The Aeneid of Virgil; with a Translation by Charles J. Billson, <br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===
| first_name = Charles James
| name = Billson
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix = MA
| image = File:Billson,_Charles_James.jpg
| birth_date = 1858
| death_date = 1932
| address = The Wayside, Oadby, Leicester<br />Silchester House, Silchester, Reading [1911]<br />The Priory, Martyr Worthy, Winchester [1913]<br />33 St Anne's Road, Eastbourne [1919]<br />
| occupation =
| elected_ESL =
| elected_ASL =
| elected_AI = 1907.06.03
| elected_APS =
| elected_LAS =
| membership = ordinary fellow
| left = 1919 last listed
| clubs =
| societies = Folklore Society
}}
== Notes ==
=== Office Notes ===
=== House Notes ===
Proposed by E.S. Hartland, seconded by John Gray, 1907.04.03<br /><br />
=== Notes From Elsewhere ===
Charles James Billson (1858–1932) was a translator, lawyer, and collector of folklore.<br />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]<br />Charles J. Billson was President (1893–94) of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.[2]<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
== Publications ==
=== External Publications ===
<br />(1895) County Folk-Lore - Leicestershire and Rutland, London, Folk Lore Society <br />(1920) Mediaeval Leicester, Edgar Backus, Leicester <br />(1924) Leicester Memoirs, Edgar Backus, Leicester<br /><br />The popular poetry of the Finns / by Charles J. Billson. <br /><br />The Aeneid of Virgil; with a Translation by Charles J. Billson, <br />
=== House Publications ===
== Related Material Details ==
=== RAI Material ===
=== Other Material ===