| J. R. L. Anderson
William Empson P. Sargant Florence Elsie Graham Martin and Eva Kolinsky |
Joseph Lauwerys
I. A. Richards Dora Russell Marjorie Todd Lord Zuckerman |
ILLUSTRATIONS
(between pages 152 and 153)
PART A. INTRODUCTORY
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Before we forget -- or die -- several of Ogden's still surviving friends and admirers, happily joined by J. R. L. Anderson, thought to preserve his memory by each telling what we could remember about him. Of he group, I knew him longest -- indeed from his undergraduate years -- and have been asked to write a brief preface. Such a general introduction is needed because each of us writes of a different period of time, and no one of us really knew him and his activities continuously. There are gaps in the narrative which the chronology printed on pp. 4-6 clearly indicates. Moreover, Ogden, as all of us testify, was peculiar in keeping his friends in separate compartments ; and some surviving friends should be acknowledged in a preface who have not felt able to write a chapter but have supplied valuable notes. Among these are : Mrs. Dorothy Gates, Ogden's secretary for many years who was with him at the end ; Miss Leonora Lockhart, now Mrs. Hannay, one of the chief translators into Basic English ; Mark Harmon of the Orthological Institute ; Fredric Warburg, quoted in Marjory Todd's contribution ; Leonard Elmhirst ; Rupert Crawshay-Williams ; James Wood ; and Frank Ogden. We are most grateful to Messrs Routledge & Kegan Paul, who have supplied lists of books edited by Ogden.P. Sargant Florence
CHRONOLOGY
| Born June 1st 1889 | Father : C. B. Ogden, a housemaster at Rossal. Head of Modern side. Mother : nee Fanny Hall |
| 1905-6 | "Good at everything" -- School, Games, Piano, Chess, etc. Contracts rheumatic fever and bedridden in dark room at 16, but illness arrested by Dr. Armstrong of Buxton, his preparatory school doctor. |
| 1908-9 | Classics Scholarship at Magdalene College, Cambridge, First Class Part I of Tripos |
| 1909 | Founds Heretics Society with Pittiotto and other "Paulines". C. K. Honorary Secretary. |
| 1910 | Billiards Half-Blue. Moves from Pepysian building, Magdalene College to "Top Hole" Falcon Yard, Cambridge. Pittiotto retires; C. K. becomes President of Heretics. |
| 1912 | Cambridge Magazine, first number January 20. Published and financed by Stephen Swift Co. |
| 1913, Jan | Publishing house fails. Finance raised by L5 from each of twenty don or undergraduate friends of C.K. |
| 1913 July | Enquiry into German Continuation Schools with Mr. R. H. Best |
| 1915-1920 | Cambridge Magazine (continued weekly with Summary of Foreign Press, translating continental, including German, anti-war articles.) Writes 1915 Militarism vs. Feminism ; Fecundity vs Civilisation (as "Adelyne More"). |
| 1920 | Cambridge Magazine as a quarterly : Summer 1920, Jan-March 1921; Decennial 1912-21, Double Number 1923. |
| 1920-27 | Editing Psyche (1920-31). Writes Foundations of Aesthetics with I. A. Richards and James Wood (1921); The Meaning of Meaning with I. A. Richards (1922)
Settles in Soho and Bloombury; joins the 1917 Club. Organizes the Orthological Institute. Spends Summers at Cap'Antibes. |
| 1921 Onward | Assumed editorship of the International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method and in November 1921, takes up with Bertrand Russell to the question of publishing in that series as English translation of Wittgenstein's Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung in Ostwald's Annalen des Natrphilosophie. This appears (partly at G.E. Moore's suggestion) under the title Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. The translation was partly the work of Frank Ramsey.* Edits (1) History of Civilisation series; (2) Today and Tomorrow Series; (3) Psyche Miniatures. |
| 1926-7 | First visit to the United States. Editorship of Forum. |
| 1928 | Writes ABC of Psychology (published 1929) |
| 1928 Onward | Writes Basic English Text Books : ABC of Basic English (1928), Basic by Examples (1928). |
| (1931) | Basic English
Debabelization. |
| (1932) | Basic English Applied (Science)
The Basic Words. A detailed account of their uses. Basic English versus the Artificial Languages, . . . Opposition. A Linguistic and Psychological analysis Basic Step by Step. The Basic Teacher. Brighter Basic. |
| 1932 | Second visit to the United States
Writes Jeremy Bentham 1832-2932 (in Basic) |
| 1935 | Elected to Atenaeum Club |
| 1939-44 | Resides in Buxton |
| 1942 | Basic for Science (takes place of Basic English Applied and gives examples in Basic). |
| 1954 | Book collection sold to University College, London. |
| 1956 | Moves from Bloomsbury to house in Cadogan Square. |
| Mar 1957 | Dies, London Clinic, of cancer |
FORWARD
J. R. L. Anderson