John Edward Jocelyn Brittain - Catlin
b. 21 Dec 1927 d. 29 Mar 1987
Their first child, John Edward Brittain-Catlin (1927–1987), was born on 21 December 1927. In that same month Brittain completed a book based on a series of articles, Women's Work in Modern England (1928), and went on to publish a short satirical jab at conventional marriage, Halcyon (1929). Her resumed career as a journalist had prospered, with regular publication of articles and reviews, but she felt impelled to publish her war memories and struggled intermittently to find a suitable mode. By the time her second child, Shirley Vivien (who became the politician Shirley Williams is Shirley Vivian/Vivien Teresa/Theresa Brittain {neé Catlin} Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, CH, PC is a British politician, b. 27 July 1930, Brittain had found that mode in autobiographical books like Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, recently published to popular acclaim. Testament of Youth: an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 (1933) was a best-seller on publication and earned Vera Brittain instant international fame. Based on her diary and research notes, it quoted poems and letters by Roland Leighton and others, to represent both personal and collective experience.
Second file on his mother, #21019895.
John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin is the son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain. He married Jennifer Manasseh, daughter of E. S. Manasseh, before 1971.
Jennifer Manasseh is the daughter of E. S. Manasseh. She married, firstly, John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin, son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain, before 1971.
She m2. 30 Oct 1971 Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, son of George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Violet Dorothy Evelyn Done. She and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh were divorced in 1993.
From before 1971, her married name became Catlin. After her marriage, Jennifer Manasseh was styled as Lady Balfour of Burleigh on 30 October 1971. Upon marriage became Bruce.
Children of Jennifer Manasseh and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Hon. Victoria Bruce b. 7 May 1973
Hon. Ishbel Bruce b. 28 Sep 1976
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Shortly before his death in 1987 John Brittain-Catlin completed the final draft of his memoir, Family Quartet, which in part chronicled his often tempestuous relationship with his mother. Both he and Shirley—whom Brittain called 'my brilliant and beloved' daughter (Berry and Bostridge, 510)—seemed ultimately much closer to their father than their mother. Her dedication to causes and her career as writer often made her seem remote. As a boy John called his mother, disparagingly, 'the novelist' (J. Catlin, Family Quartet, 1987, 1). He also commented that—slim, diminutive, pretty—'she looked young for her age until she was nearing fifty', and was always carefully and fashionably groomed; the perceived discrepancy between this attractive, ‘conventional’ appearance and her very unconventional opinions and behaviour occasioned uneasiness and sometimes hostility.
One resource of several:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32076
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-august-1987/28/aspects-of-the-novelist
https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/b/brittain.photos.01.htm
°Cemetery Address
3 The Street Barham, Kent, England
United Kingdom
Book: Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth
By Mark Bostridge pgs. 218/219
b. 21 Dec 1927 d. 29 Mar 1987
Their first child, John Edward Brittain-Catlin (1927–1987), was born on 21 December 1927. In that same month Brittain completed a book based on a series of articles, Women's Work in Modern England (1928), and went on to publish a short satirical jab at conventional marriage, Halcyon (1929). Her resumed career as a journalist had prospered, with regular publication of articles and reviews, but she felt impelled to publish her war memories and struggled intermittently to find a suitable mode. By the time her second child, Shirley Vivien (who became the politician Shirley Williams is Shirley Vivian/Vivien Teresa/Theresa Brittain {neé Catlin} Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, CH, PC is a British politician, b. 27 July 1930, Brittain had found that mode in autobiographical books like Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, recently published to popular acclaim. Testament of Youth: an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 (1933) was a best-seller on publication and earned Vera Brittain instant international fame. Based on her diary and research notes, it quoted poems and letters by Roland Leighton and others, to represent both personal and collective experience.
Second file on his mother, #21019895.
John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin is the son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain. He married Jennifer Manasseh, daughter of E. S. Manasseh, before 1971.
Jennifer Manasseh is the daughter of E. S. Manasseh. She married, firstly, John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin, son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain, before 1971.
She m2. 30 Oct 1971 Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, son of George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Violet Dorothy Evelyn Done. She and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh were divorced in 1993.
From before 1971, her married name became Catlin. After her marriage, Jennifer Manasseh was styled as Lady Balfour of Burleigh on 30 October 1971. Upon marriage became Bruce.
Children of Jennifer Manasseh and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Hon. Victoria Bruce b. 7 May 1973
Hon. Ishbel Bruce b. 28 Sep 1976
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Shortly before his death in 1987 John Brittain-Catlin completed the final draft of his memoir, Family Quartet, which in part chronicled his often tempestuous relationship with his mother. Both he and Shirley—whom Brittain called 'my brilliant and beloved' daughter (Berry and Bostridge, 510)—seemed ultimately much closer to their father than their mother. Her dedication to causes and her career as writer often made her seem remote. As a boy John called his mother, disparagingly, 'the novelist' (J. Catlin, Family Quartet, 1987, 1). He also commented that—slim, diminutive, pretty—'she looked young for her age until she was nearing fifty', and was always carefully and fashionably groomed; the perceived discrepancy between this attractive, ‘conventional’ appearance and her very unconventional opinions and behaviour occasioned uneasiness and sometimes hostility.
One resource of several:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32076
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-august-1987/28/aspects-of-the-novelist
https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/b/brittain.photos.01.htm
°Cemetery Address
3 The Street Barham, Kent, England
United Kingdom
Book: Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth
By Mark Bostridge pgs. 218/219
John Edward Jocelyn Brittain - Catlin
b. 21 Dec 1927 d. 29 Mar 1987
Their first child, John Edward Brittain-Catlin (1927–1987), was born on 21 December 1927. In that same month Brittain completed a book based on a series of articles, Women's Work in Modern England (1928), and went on to publish a short satirical jab at conventional marriage, Halcyon (1929). Her resumed career as a journalist had prospered, with regular publication of articles and reviews, but she felt impelled to publish her war memories and struggled intermittently to find a suitable mode. By the time her second child, Shirley Vivien (who became the politician Shirley Williams is Shirley Vivian/Vivien Teresa/Theresa Brittain {neé Catlin} Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, CH, PC is a British politician, b. 27 July 1930, Brittain had found that mode in autobiographical books like Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, recently published to popular acclaim. Testament of Youth: an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 (1933) was a best-seller on publication and earned Vera Brittain instant international fame. Based on her diary and research notes, it quoted poems and letters by Roland Leighton and others, to represent both personal and collective experience.
Second file on his mother, #21019895.
John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin is the son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain. He married Jennifer Manasseh, daughter of E. S. Manasseh, before 1971.
Jennifer Manasseh is the daughter of E. S. Manasseh. She married, firstly, John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin, son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain, before 1971.
She m2. 30 Oct 1971 Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, son of George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Violet Dorothy Evelyn Done. She and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh were divorced in 1993.
From before 1971, her married name became Catlin. After her marriage, Jennifer Manasseh was styled as Lady Balfour of Burleigh on 30 October 1971. Upon marriage became Bruce.
Children of Jennifer Manasseh and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Hon. Victoria Bruce b. 7 May 1973
Hon. Ishbel Bruce b. 28 Sep 1976
------
Shortly before his death in 1987 John Brittain-Catlin completed the final draft of his memoir, Family Quartet, which in part chronicled his often tempestuous relationship with his mother. Both he and Shirley—whom Brittain called 'my brilliant and beloved' daughter (Berry and Bostridge, 510)—seemed ultimately much closer to their father than their mother. Her dedication to causes and her career as writer often made her seem remote. As a boy John called his mother, disparagingly, 'the novelist' (J. Catlin, Family Quartet, 1987, 1). He also commented that—slim, diminutive, pretty—'she looked young for her age until she was nearing fifty', and was always carefully and fashionably groomed; the perceived discrepancy between this attractive, ‘conventional’ appearance and her very unconventional opinions and behaviour occasioned uneasiness and sometimes hostility.
One resource of several:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32076
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-august-1987/28/aspects-of-the-novelist
https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/b/brittain.photos.01.htm
°Cemetery Address
3 The Street Barham, Kent, England
United Kingdom
Book: Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth
By Mark Bostridge pgs. 218/219
b. 21 Dec 1927 d. 29 Mar 1987
Their first child, John Edward Brittain-Catlin (1927–1987), was born on 21 December 1927. In that same month Brittain completed a book based on a series of articles, Women's Work in Modern England (1928), and went on to publish a short satirical jab at conventional marriage, Halcyon (1929). Her resumed career as a journalist had prospered, with regular publication of articles and reviews, but she felt impelled to publish her war memories and struggled intermittently to find a suitable mode. By the time her second child, Shirley Vivien (who became the politician Shirley Williams is Shirley Vivian/Vivien Teresa/Theresa Brittain {neé Catlin} Williams, Baroness Williams of Crosby, CH, PC is a British politician, b. 27 July 1930, Brittain had found that mode in autobiographical books like Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, recently published to popular acclaim. Testament of Youth: an Autobiographical Study of the Years 1900–1925 (1933) was a best-seller on publication and earned Vera Brittain instant international fame. Based on her diary and research notes, it quoted poems and letters by Roland Leighton and others, to represent both personal and collective experience.
Second file on his mother, #21019895.
John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin is the son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain. He married Jennifer Manasseh, daughter of E. S. Manasseh, before 1971.
Jennifer Manasseh is the daughter of E. S. Manasseh. She married, firstly, John Edward Jocelyn Brittain Catlin, son of Sir George Edward Gordon Catlin and Vera Mary Brittain, before 1971.
She m2. 30 Oct 1971 Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh, son of George John Gordon Bruce, 7th Lord Balfour of Burleigh and Violet Dorothy Evelyn Done. She and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh were divorced in 1993.
From before 1971, her married name became Catlin. After her marriage, Jennifer Manasseh was styled as Lady Balfour of Burleigh on 30 October 1971. Upon marriage became Bruce.
Children of Jennifer Manasseh and Robert Bruce, 8th Lord Balfour of Burleigh
Hon. Victoria Bruce b. 7 May 1973
Hon. Ishbel Bruce b. 28 Sep 1976
------
Shortly before his death in 1987 John Brittain-Catlin completed the final draft of his memoir, Family Quartet, which in part chronicled his often tempestuous relationship with his mother. Both he and Shirley—whom Brittain called 'my brilliant and beloved' daughter (Berry and Bostridge, 510)—seemed ultimately much closer to their father than their mother. Her dedication to causes and her career as writer often made her seem remote. As a boy John called his mother, disparagingly, 'the novelist' (J. Catlin, Family Quartet, 1987, 1). He also commented that—slim, diminutive, pretty—'she looked young for her age until she was nearing fifty', and was always carefully and fashionably groomed; the perceived discrepancy between this attractive, ‘conventional’ appearance and her very unconventional opinions and behaviour occasioned uneasiness and sometimes hostility.
One resource of several:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-32076
http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/29th-august-1987/28/aspects-of-the-novelist
https://library.mcmaster.ca/archives/b/brittain.photos.01.htm
°Cemetery Address
3 The Street Barham, Kent, England
United Kingdom
Book: Vera Brittain and the First World War: The Story of Testament of Youth
By Mark Bostridge pgs. 218/219
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