Alaric Pinder Boor: A Life Reimagined

by Jeff Hopkins

Overview

Alaric Pinder Boor lived and died more than a century ago. His fascinating life has been reconstructed using historical sources including: certificates, documents, photographs, immigration, travel and shipping lists, electoral and rate book rolls, newspaper articles, letters, war records, and interpretative paintings.

The literary device of ‘faction’ has been employed. The facts have been embellished with fictional stories and conversations that may, or may not, have occurred. The aim is to reimagine a life story that should not be allowed to fade into the mists of time, and hopefully introduce Pinder Boor to a new audience who can appreciate a life well lived, but cut short far too soon.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940164116743
Publisher:	Tellwell Talent
Publication date:	06/17/2020
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

About the Author
Jeff Hopkins (1950) is a retired schoolteacher. He lives in Western Australia. As the drama master at a private boys’ school he wrote ten original musical plays and produced and directed them at the school.
In 1992, he researched and wrote a family history, 'Life’s Race Well Run', and after retiring in 2006 he has written eighteen novels, three factional biographies and a memoir.
• Artifice (2015)
• Gnarl (2015).
• The Spiv: The Robbie Sparrow Story (2015)
• Impressment: Managers, Actors and Impressed Boys (2015)
• Benedict Lovelace and the Travelling Show (2016)
• Reflections; A Story of Friendship (2016)
• Rocking Horse Rider (2016)
• The Hydrographer: The Clyde Steadman Story (2017)
• Lord Gnarl : A Sequel to Gnarl (2019)
• Handsome Jack: A Whizz-kid’s Story (2019).
• A Horse Called Signs: A Sequel to Handsome Jack (2020)
• Alaric Pinder Boor: A Life Reimagined (2020)
• Gnarl: Caliphs and Kings:Concluding the Gnarl Trilogy (2020)
• The Gavin Johns Story: A Belle beamish Investigation (2021)
• The Headmaster: Frederick Charles Faulkner's Story (2021)
• Creatively:A Memoir of Plays, Films, Musicals, Commentaries, and Books (2021)
• Resilience: The Story of Cameron and Rick - 1972 (2022)
• Surviving the Silence; the Benjamin Stabton Story 1819-1891 (2022)
• Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon: A Cinematic Story (2022)
• Released and Regained: A Sequel to Directed by McCardle O'Hanlon (2023)
•Adam & Benjamin: The Story of the Seal Island Band (2023)
• Landor: A Saga od Siblings, Schooling, Sparring, and Sinking (2023)

Jeff previously maintained he wrote entirely for pleasure, and to fill in the long summer months between football seasons. Recently he has admitted that he set himself the task of writing in a number of different genres as part of a three-year programme to learn about creative writing and self-publishing. He said it was like an undergraduate degree course for which there was a strict budget and work schedule.That three years has now stretched. It has since become clear that the whole experiment was one of the most interesting and absorbing things he had done in his life. He continues to write.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Alaric Pinder Boor: Birth and Genealogy 1

Chapter 2: A.P. Boor Commences at Christian Brothers’ College, Perth 11

Chapter 3: Pinder at the Opening Ceremony of the Middle Wing 19

Chapter 4: Alaric Pinder Boor’s First Speech Day 27

Chapter 5: Pinder’s Primary and Junior University Years at CBC 35

Chapter 6: Pinder Under the Tutelage of Lieutenant William J.H. Emmott 45

Chapter 7: Pinder’s Penultimate Year at Christian Brothers’ College 1911 55

Chapter 8: Pinder and the Intercollegiate Arts Day 68

Chapter 9: Pinder, Brother Nunan and the College Dance 80

Chapter 10: Alaric Pinder Boor’s Final Speech Day 93

Chapter 11: Pinder’s Unofficial Engagement and Unannounced Fiancée 101

Chapter 12: Alaric Pinder Boor: Rhodes Scholar 112

Chapter 13: Alaric Pinder Boor’s Time in Carnarvon 1913 126

Chapter 14: Alaric Pinder Boor Sails on SS ‘Suevic’ and SS ‘Mongolia’ 137

Chapter 15: Pinder Begins as a ‘Fresher’ at Oxford University 145

Chapter 16: Pinder and Connor Phillips in the Oxford Gymnasium 151

Chapter 17: Pinder and Ian Dalrymple Dewar 161

Chapter 18: Pinder and Ian – Sparring Partners 170

Chapter 19: Pinder at 8 Drumsheugh Gardens Edinburgh 177

Chapter 20: Pinder and Ian in Basement Boxing 190

Chapter 21: Pinder at The New Club 197

Chapter 22: Pinder and Ian Hiking 203

Chapter 23: Pinder At Lady Letitia’s Afternoon Tea 212

Chapter 24: Pinder’s Christmas, Hogmanay and Baron Dewar’s Ball 221

Chapter 25: Pinder During Hilary Term 1914 232

Chapter 26: Ian Dalrymple Dewar’s War 1914 – 1916 In England and France 241

Chapter 27: Alaric Pinder Boor’s War 1914 –1915 In England and France 249

Chapter 28: Alaric Pinder Boor’s War 1915 – 1917 In Greece and Palestine 265

Acknowledgements 281

About the Author: 282