James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915)

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James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) was born in London the eldest son of a Headmaster. He studied Oriental Languages at both Oxford and Cambridge Universities before commencing a career in the Foreign Office where he had postings in Constantinople, Smyrna and Beirut. His health unfortunately was never good, and he was forced to take regular leave of absence from his postings to return to England and Switzerland for treatment. He died in Davos, Switzerland, on January 3rd, 1915, at the tender age of thirty and is buried in Cheltenham, England, at the foot of the Cotswold Hills. His death was described by one contemporary (MacDonald, 1924) as "unquestionably the greatest premature loss that English literature has suffered since the death of Keats".
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