George Green Loane (1865 – 17 May 1945) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor, and author.
Early life A son of the Reverend Richard Hussey Loane, of Rushbrook, Queenstown,John Archibald Venn, "Loane, George Green" in Alumni Cantabrigienses, vol. II. Dabbs-Juxton (Cambridge University Press, 1951), p. 194 by his marriage in 1859 to Jane Green,Marriages at loanegenealogy.webs.com, accessed 21 April 2019 Loane was born at Cork and educated at Midleton College, the Royal College, Armagh, Trinity College Dublin, where he was elected a Scholar and a gold medallist, and finally at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was admitted there as a sizar in October 1890, gained a scholarship in 1892, and graduated BA with first class honours in the Classical Tripos in 1893, proceeding to MA in 1898.The Dublin University Calendar, Volume 2 (1901), p. 493
Life and career Loane was a schoolmaster at St Paul's School, which was then in Hammersmith, from 1893 to 1925, serving as a housemaster from 1901 to 1908.The Admission Registers of St Paul's School from 1876 to 1905 (London: Bell, 1906), p. 476
Loane edited and wrote a number of books, mostly for use in schools. His Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century (1897) and A Short Handbook of Literary Terms (1900) both had multiple editions.Loane, George Green at WorldCat, accessed 21 April 2019
On 27 December 1900, Loane married Edith Armitage, a daughter of the Rev. William Firth Armitage, vicar of Scotforth, Lancashire, at Scotforth."Loane George Green & Armitage Edith" in Register of Marriages for Lancaster Registration District, vol. 8e (1900), p. 1286 Their daughter Alice Margaret was born at Fulham in 1902,"Loane Alice Margaret" in Register of Births for Fulham Registration District, vol. 1a (1902), p. 327 and another daughter, Joan Edith, in 1904."Loane Joan Edith" in Register of Births for Fulham Registration District, vol. 1a (1904), p. 323 After retiring from St Paul's, Loane settled in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he died in 1945."Loane George G aged 79" in Register of Deaths for Stroud Registration District, vol. 6a (1945), p. 464 Joan Edith married Francis Wood Smith at St George's, Hanover Square in 1933."Loane Joan E & Wood Smith Francis G" in Register of Marriages for St. George's Hanover Sq. Registration District, vol. 1a (1933), p. 1219
Selected publications George Green Loane, ed., Longer Narrative Poems of the Nineteenth Century (1897, several editions) George Green Loane, A Short Handbook of Literary Terms (1900, a further 14 editions until 1976) George Green Loane, ed., Livy: Book XXI, with Introduction, Notes &c (Blackie, reprinted 1986) George Green Loane, ed., Selected English Essays (London: Dent, The Kings Treasuries of Literature series, 1921) George G. Loane, M.A., Longer Narrative Poems (18th Century) edited for Schools (1921) George Green Loane, A Book of Story Poems (University of California Libraries, 1921) George Green Loane More English essays (1928, new edition 1941) George Green Loane, Echoes in Tennyson, and Other Essays (London: Stockwell, 1928) George G. Loane, "Chapman's Homer", The Cornhill Magazine, vol. 156 (1937), pp. 637–640 George G. Loane, "Misprints in Chapman's Homer", Notes and Queries 173 (1937), pp. 398–402
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External links Loane, George Green 1865– at WorldCat