Trevor Blakemore
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Trevor Ramsey Villiers Blakemore (13 October 1879 – 8 July 1953) was an English poet and author.
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Born in Chislehurst, Kent, Blakemore was the son of Ramsey Blakemore, a merchant, of St Leonards-on-Sea,[1] and Anna Maria Elizabeth Baynes, who had married at Wimbledon in 1867.[2] He had an older sister, Ethel Agnes Annette, born about 1872.[3] His father died in 1891.
He was educated at Hurst Court School, Hastings, Wellington College, and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was admitted on 1 October 1897 and graduated BA in 1900.[1][3]
Career
Apart from his work as a poet, Blakemore was the author of a biography of the painter Herbert Schmalz, published in 1911.[4]
In the 1920s, Blakemore spent part of his life on Sark in the Channel Islands, and much of his poetry was inspired by the island.[5][6]
In the 1930s, Blakemore was a member of the selection committee of the Right Book Club, with Anthony Ludovici, Norman Thwaites, Collinson Owen, and W. A. Foyle.[7][8]
In 1955, after Blakemore's death, Poems by Trevor Blakemore was published by Neville Spearman, edited by Robert Gittings and Ann Blakemore, with a foreword by Sir Compton Mackenzie.[6]