Novelist and poet, author of witty satires like Acorned Hog and A Shroud as well as a Shirt (satirising Mosley's Blackshirts), Porcelain People, Barbary Court, Blow, Blow your Trumpets. Schoolmaster at Clayesmore Prep, war service as Royal Marines officer, lecturer at university in Singapore 1950s, history & English teacher at Bethany School, Goudhurst, Kent 1960's till death.
Renowned ghost story writer including Florinda and The Yew Tree (see anthology "Where Human Pathways end").
Poet, author inter alia of "Professor Todlip's Lovechild" in Penguin More Comic and Curious Verse.
Son of Rev. Joseph Frazer, Anglican priest, of Christ Church, Doncaster, childhood friend and next-door neighbour of Richard Storry, Oxford don and japanologist. Educated at St John's Leatherhead and New College, Oxford. Brother of Rev. Hugh Frazer, chamberlain of York Minster, chaplain of Castle Howard. Husband of Joan Neale Scott Williams who died in July 2007 at Castle Douglas in Scotland. Father of two sons, Peter and Ian. After steady years of slow conversion which produced poems such as his Head in the River, Shamus finally joined the Catholic Church shortly before his untimely death from cancer, a victim of his chain-smoking when writing and correcting.
Renowned ghost story writer including Florinda and The Yew Tree (see anthology "Where Human Pathways end").
Poet, author inter alia of "Professor Todlip's Lovechild" in Penguin More Comic and Curious Verse.
Son of Rev. Joseph Frazer, Anglican priest, of Christ Church, Doncaster, childhood friend and next-door neighbour of Richard Storry, Oxford don and japanologist. Educated at St John's Leatherhead and New College, Oxford. Brother of Rev. Hugh Frazer, chamberlain of York Minster, chaplain of Castle Howard. Husband of Joan Neale Scott Williams who died in July 2007 at Castle Douglas in Scotland. Father of two sons, Peter and Ian. After steady years of slow conversion which produced poems such as his Head in the River, Shamus finally joined the Catholic Church shortly before his untimely death from cancer, a victim of his chain-smoking when writing and correcting.
Novelist and poet, author of witty satires like Acorned Hog and A Shroud as well as a Shirt (satirising Mosley's Blackshirts), Porcelain People, Barbary Court, Blow, Blow your Trumpets. Schoolmaster at Clayesmore Prep, war service as Royal Marines officer, lecturer at university in Singapore 1950s, history & English teacher at Bethany School, Goudhurst, Kent 1960's till death.
Renowned ghost story writer including Florinda and The Yew Tree (see anthology "Where Human Pathways end").
Poet, author inter alia of "Professor Todlip's Lovechild" in Penguin More Comic and Curious Verse.
Son of Rev. Joseph Frazer, Anglican priest, of Christ Church, Doncaster, childhood friend and next-door neighbour of Richard Storry, Oxford don and japanologist. Educated at St John's Leatherhead and New College, Oxford. Brother of Rev. Hugh Frazer, chamberlain of York Minster, chaplain of Castle Howard. Husband of Joan Neale Scott Williams who died in July 2007 at Castle Douglas in Scotland. Father of two sons, Peter and Ian. After steady years of slow conversion which produced poems such as his Head in the River, Shamus finally joined the Catholic Church shortly before his untimely death from cancer, a victim of his chain-smoking when writing and correcting.
Renowned ghost story writer including Florinda and The Yew Tree (see anthology "Where Human Pathways end").
Poet, author inter alia of "Professor Todlip's Lovechild" in Penguin More Comic and Curious Verse.
Son of Rev. Joseph Frazer, Anglican priest, of Christ Church, Doncaster, childhood friend and next-door neighbour of Richard Storry, Oxford don and japanologist. Educated at St John's Leatherhead and New College, Oxford. Brother of Rev. Hugh Frazer, chamberlain of York Minster, chaplain of Castle Howard. Husband of Joan Neale Scott Williams who died in July 2007 at Castle Douglas in Scotland. Father of two sons, Peter and Ian. After steady years of slow conversion which produced poems such as his Head in the River, Shamus finally joined the Catholic Church shortly before his untimely death from cancer, a victim of his chain-smoking when writing and correcting.
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