Amyas Northcote
{{Short description|British writer (1864–1923)}}
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Amyas Stafford Northcote (1864–1923) was a British writer from an aristocratic family.
Family
Northcote was the youngest child and seventh son of Sir Stafford Northcote, 1st Earl of Iddesleigh (the Chancellor of the Exchequer under Disraeli) and his wife Cecilia Frances Farrer, sister of Thomas Farrer, 1st Baron Farrer.
He married Helen May Dudley on 14 May 1890. The couple had two children, a daughter Cecilia and a son the Rev. Dudley Northcote, both of whom died unmarried.
Career
Northcote spent some time in Chicago, running a small business there.
He wrote ghost stories in the line of those of M. R. James, which were compiled in his only book, In Ghostly Company.
Richard Dalby, The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2. Carroll and Graf, {{ISBN|0-88184-701-1}} (p.417).{{cite web|url=http://www.wordsworth-editions.com/author/northcote-amyas |title=Wordsworth Editions |accessdate=2011-11-21 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120615092808/http://www.wordsworth-editions.com/author/northcote-amyas |archivedate=15 June 2012 |df=dmy }} Wordsworth Editions author page.
He was for several years a Justice of the Peace in Buckinghamshire.Neil Wilson,
Shadows in the Attic: A Guide to British Supernatural Fiction, 1820-1950. British Library, London, 2000. {{ISBN|0712310746}}. (p. 383)
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Category:British ghost story writers
Category:Younger sons of earls
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