{{Short description|Anglo-Irish classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor and author (1865–1945)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=November 2020}} {{Use Irish English|date=November 2020}} '''George Green Loane''' (1865 – 17 May 1945) was an Anglo-Irish classical scholar, schoolmaster, editor, and author. thumb|Trinity College, Dublin thumb|Trinity College, Cambridge thumb|St Paul's School, Hammersmith
==Early life== A son of the Reverend Richard Hussey Loane, of Rushbrook, Queenstown,<ref name=venn>John Archibald Venn, "Loane, George Green" in ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'', vol. II. Dabbs-Juxton (Cambridge University Press, 1951), p. 194</ref> by his marriage in 1859 to Jane Green,<ref name=webs>[https://loanegenealogy.webs.com/Marriages.pdf Marriages] at loanegenealogy.webs.com, accessed 21 April 2019</ref> 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.<ref name=venn/><ref>''The Dublin University Calendar'', Volume 2 (1901), p. 493</ref>
==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.<ref>''The Admission Registers of St Paul's School from 1876 to 1905'' (London: Bell, 1906), p. 476</ref><ref name=venn/>
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.<ref>[http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-116733312/ Loane, George Green] at WorldCat, accessed 21 April 2019</ref>
On 27 December 1900, Loane married Edith Armitage, a daughter of the Rev. William Firth Armitage, vicar of Scotforth, Lancashire, at Scotforth.<ref>"Loane George Green & Armitage Edith" in ''Register of Marriages for Lancaster Registration District'', vol. 8e (1900), p. 1286</ref><ref name=webs/> Their daughter Alice Margaret was born at Fulham in 1902,<ref>"Loane Alice Margaret" in ''Register of Births for Fulham Registration District'', vol. 1a (1902), p. 327</ref> and another daughter, Joan Edith, in 1904.<ref>"Loane Joan Edith" in ''Register of Births for Fulham Registration District'', vol. 1a (1904), p. 323</ref> After retiring from St Paul's, Loane settled in Stroud, Gloucestershire, where he died in 1945.<ref>"Loane George G aged 79" in ''Register of Deaths for Stroud Registration District'', vol. 6a (1945), p. 464</ref> Joan Edith married Francis Wood Smith at St George's, Hanover Square in 1933.<ref>"Loane Joan E & Wood Smith Francis G" in ''Register of Marriages for St. George's Hanover Sq. Registration District'', vol. 1a (1933), p. 1219</ref>
==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== * [http://worldcat.org/identities/viaf-116733312/ Loane, George Green 1865–] at WorldCat
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