| 词条 | Alfred George Gardiner |
| 释义 |
| name = A. G. Gardiner | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birthname = Alfred George Gardiner | birth_date = 2 June 1865[1] | birth_place = Chelmsford, Essex, England | death_date = {{dda|1946|3|3|1865|6|2|df=y}} | death_place = Buckingham, Buckinghamshire, England | education = | occupation = Journalist, editor, and author | alias = "Alpha of the Plough" | title = | family = | spouse = {{marriage|Ada Claydon|1888}}[2] | children = | relatives = | credits = }}Alfred George Gardiner (2 June 1865 – 3 March 1946) was an English journalist, editor and author. His essays, written under the alias "Alpha of the Plough", are highly regarded.[3] He was also Chairman of the National Anti-Sweating League, an advocacy group which campaigned for a minimum wage in industry.[4] Early lifeGardiner was born in Chelmsford, the son of Henry James Gardiner, a cabinet-maker and alcoholic,{{cn|date=December 2018}} and his wife, Susanna Taylor.[5] As a boy he worked at the Chelmsford Chronicle and the Bournemouth Directory. He joined the Northern Daily Telegraph in 1887 which had been founded the year before by Thomas Purvis Ritzema. In 1899, he was appointed editor of the Blackburn Weekly Telegraph.[6] Editor of the Daily NewsIn 1902 Ritzema was named general manager of the Daily News. Needing an editor, he turned to his young protégé to fill the role. The choice soon proved a great success; under Gardiner's direction, it became one of the leading liberal journals its day, as he improved its coverage of both the news and literary matters while crusading against social injustices. Yet while circulation rose from 80,000 when he joined the paper to 151,000 in 1907 and 400,000 with the introduction of a Manchester edition in 1909, the paper continued to run at a loss. Though close to the owner of the Daily News, George Cadbury, Gardiner resigned in 1919 over a disagreement with him over Gardiner's opposition to David Lloyd George.[6] EssayistFrom 1915 he contributed to The Star under the pseudonym Alpha of the Plough.[6] At the time The Star had several anonymous essayists whose pseudonyms were the names of stars. Invited to choose the name of a star as a pseudonym he chose the name of the brightest (alpha) star in the constellation "the Plough." His essays are uniformly elegant, graceful and humorous. His uniqueness lay in his ability to teach the basic truths of life in an easy and amusing manner. Pillars of Society, Pebbles on the Shore, Many Furrows and Leaves in the Wind are some of his best known writings. The end of the essay "The Vanity of Old Age" is typically neat: "For Nature is a cunning nurse. She gives us lollipops all the way, and when the lollipop of hope and the lollipop of achievement are done, she gently inserts in our toothless gums the lollipop of remembrance. And with that pleasant vanity we are soothed to sleep."[7] Works
References1. ^1939 England and Wales Register 2. ^London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1932 3. ^{{cite web | url=http://www.experienceproject.com/stories/Like-To-Read/3056667 | title=A. G. Gardiner - On Saying Please | accessdate=28 February 2014}} 4. ^{{cite book |title= Sweated Industry and the Minimum Wage|last=Black |first= Clementina|year= 1907|publisher= Duckworth & Co |location= London|page= |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=dywXAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=2011-09-24}} 5. ^Essex, England, Select Church of England Parish Registers, 1518-1960 6. ^1 2 {{cite web |url = http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/Gardiner/Gardiner.html |title = Gardiner, Alfred George, 1865 - 1946, Author and Journalist |work = British Library of Political and Economic Science |accessdate = 2009-02-22 |archive-url = https://archive.is/20121223030257/http://library-2.lse.ac.uk/archives/handlists/Gardiner/Gardiner.html |archive-date = 23 December 2012 |dead-url = yes |df = dmy-all}} 7. ^Alpha of the Plough, "The Vanity of Old Age", Windfalls, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., London, 1920, p. 17. Further reading
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