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- 18 Aug 1993, 3 Old Park Road, Exeter - Will
23 Jul 1994, 3 Old Park Road, Exeter, d - Probate
From Rutlish Reunions (http://www.rutlishreunions.org.uk) :
Maurice Hemingway entered Rutlish in September 1957 and was in Vikings. He was born on 2 November 1945 and died on 23 July 1994. He was living in Exeter (Devon) at the time of his death which was registered in the Exeter Registration District.
Martin Flatman writes: At Rutlish, Maurice much appreciated the teaching of Roy Howard and Henry Locke. In 1965 he went up to St Catharine's College Cambridge to read Modern Languages. In 1968 he moved on to Worcester College Oxford, where he took the degree of DPhil, with a thesis on the later 19th century Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Baz?n, later published as a book by Cambridge University Press. He was offered two lecturerships more or less simultaneously, choosing the post at Exeter University where he remained until his premature death in 1994, teaching modern Spanish and Spanish-American literature, and retaining strong practical musical interests on the side and a strong commitment to the Roman Catholic faith. He had been promoted to a Readership before he died.
And an Obit in St Catharine's College Society 1995 (pdf) :
DR MAURICE HEMINGWAY (1965) Maurice Hemingway's early education was at Rutlish School Mertin, from where he went up to St Catharine's in 1964, reading both parts of t he Modern Languages Tripos, and actively participating in the College's musical and, in a more low-key way, religious life. (He later became a Roman Catholic.) Perhaps the most important intellectual influence on him in Cambridge was the late Helen Grant, Fellow of Girton. He next enjoyed an especially happy period at Worcester College Oxford, and did a DPhil, a degree he was awarded in 1977 for a thesis on the Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Bazan. This already notable piece of work was published by Cambridge University Press in 1983 By this time, he was Lecturer in Spanish at the University of Exeter, (a post he chose in preference to another, in a Faculty further north). He stayed in Exeter for the remainder of his career, cut short by early retirement on grounds of ill health, in 1992. His commitment to teaching and to research were both strong, and he took full part in administrative tasks as well: his stature was recognised by appointment to a personal Readership in Modern Spanish Literature. Whilst retaining a central interest in the nineteenth-century novel, his academic concerns ranged widely, and encompassed modern Spanish-American writing also. His skills were both in textual scholarship and in critical interpretation. His great modesty, together with a humour both wry and warm by turns, might distract one from his true distinction, but his writings have deservedly acquired international celebrity among Hispanists. He had a great gift for friendship, and his influence will remain through both pupils and friends, who cherish memories of his generosity of spirit and clear-sighted encouragement of others.
And an obit in the Independent newspaper Tues 2 Aug 1994 :
Maurice John Dominic Hemingway, Spanish scholar: born London 2 November 1945; Reader in Modern Spanish Literature, Exeter University 1971-92; died Exeter 23 July 1994.
MAURICE HEMINGWAY's early death is a loss to British and to international Hispanism.
His major work was on the late 19th-century Spanish novelist Emilia Pardo Bazan, whom he revaluated in a European context. His discovery of the whereabouts of her library, which had been preserved in the Pazo de Meiras, one of Franco's palaces in Galicia, enabled him to appraise the literary influences which helped to mould her as a writer. His Emilia Pardo Bazan: the making of a novelist (1983), and a stream of articles, reviews and studies on the same subject, brought him distinction in the United States, Spain and France. His edition of Pardo Bazan's unpublished poems was in press at the time of his death.
Hemingway was educated at Rutlish School, and after an undergraduate career at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and a postgraduate career in Oxford at Worcester College, where he completed a DPhil, he was recruited to the Spanish Department at Exeter University in 1971. There he remained until he took ill-health retirement in 1992. The European perspective which he brought to his scholarship - he spoke French fluently as well as Spanish - was appreciated by many generations of students of Spanish and French at Exeter. They responded to his inspirational teaching, his blend of tolerance, wry humour, perspicacity and understatement. His bons mots enlivened even the most sombre meetings, but he was a meticulous and efficient administrator, particularly as admissions tutor.
Hemingway's Catholicism, to which he was converted whilst at Oxford, and his spirituality which led him on one memorable occasion to make the pilgrimage on foot to Walsingham, were firm and indestructible elements in his life, as was his love for music. He had an excellent baritone voice and was in demand as a soloist in opera and choral concerts; his disappointment at narrowly failing to gain the award of LRCM was matched by the disbelief of those who were conversant with his musical talent.
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1945 - 1994 (48 years)
