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	'''George Shipway''' (25 May 1908–1982) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book ''The Chilian Club''.		'''George Shipway''' (25 May 1908–1982) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book ''The Chilian Club''.

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'''George Shipway''' (25 May 1908–1982) was a British author best known for his historical novels, but he also tried his hand at political satire in his book ''The Chilian Club''.

==Military career==
George Frederick Morgan Shipway was born on 25 May 1908 at Allahbad in India and was educated at [[Clifton College|Clifton]].<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. p381: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April, 1948</ref> He then attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and was commissioned on to the Unattached List for the Indian Army on 30 August 1928. He arrived in India on 5 October 1928 and was attached to a British regiment: the 2nd Battalion The Prince of Wales's Volunteers (South Lancashire), for one year from 14 October 1928. This was a standard practice, intended to enable junior officers on the Unattached List to gain practical military experience in an Indian environment before joining their regiments.

After his year Shipway was posted to the [[13th Duke of Connaught's Own Lancers]] on 20 November 1929. Shipway was later to wryly claim that his motive in joining an Indian cavalry regiment was to give him the opportunity to play polo on a regular basis.

He spent two years (1936–1938) as Adjutant of the Mekran Levy Corps. After attending the Quetta Staff college in 1940–41 he became a General Staff Officer, 3rd grade at General Headquarters, India. He remained on the staff until 1944 when he was posted to serve with the [[Hyderabad Lancers]], an [[Indian State Forces]] unit.

Shipway retired as a Major and honorary Lieutenant-Colonel on 9 January 1948, following Indian independence. After retiring he became a teacher at [[Cheam School]] in Berkshire for 19 years before becoming a novelist at the age of 60.

==Novels==
Shipway's cavalry background served him well when he took up writing; his descriptions of cavalry battles are full of minute detail and his works generally were meticulously researched. His first novel ''Imperial Governor'' (1968) made use of both his military and teaching knowledge to analyse the character of the Roman general [[Suetonius Paulinus]], who suppressed [[Boudicca]]'s rebellion of AD 60. Other novels dealt with pre-classical Greek, medieval and Indian historical themes.

In his 1969 novel ''Knight in Anarchy'' Shipway describes the life of Humphrey de Visdelou as he follows [[Geoffrey de Mandeville, 1st Earl of Essex|Geoffrey de Mandeville]] to his doom. In the book Shipway indicates that he lives on the estates that de Visdelou once owned. The Vis de Lou family certainly held lands in Berkshire post-Conquest.

Shipway died in 1982.

==Bibliography==
*''Imperial Governor'' (1968), [[Boudicca]] and Roman Britain. {{ISBN|0-432-14750-0}}
*''Knight in Anarchy'' (1969), in the time of Stephen & Matilda. {{ISBN|0-432-14751-9}}; American title ''The Knight''
*''The Chilian Club'' (1971), {{ISBN|0-432-14752-7}}; American title ''The Yellow Room''
*''The Paladin'' (1972), the story of Walter Tirel, killer of [[William Rufus]]. {{ISBN|0-432-14753-5}}<ref>Tate, Peter.
*''The New Forest, 900 years after''. London : Macdonald and Jane's, 1979. {{ISBN|9780354043625}} (pg.124)</ref>
*''The Wolf Time'' (1973), sequel to above {{ISBN|0-432-14754-3}}
*''Free Lance'' (1975), the British in India during the Napoleonic wars. {{ISBN|0-432-14755-1}}
*''Strangers in the Land'' (1976), The [[Vellore Mutiny]] of 1806 {{ISBN|0-432-14756-X}}
*''Warrior in Bronze'' (1977), the story of [[Agamemnon]]. {{ISBN|0-432-14757-8}}
*''King in Splendour'' (1979), sequel to above. {{ISBN|0-432-14758-6}}
*''Imperial Governor: 50th Anniversary Edition'' (2018), Boudicca and Roman Britain. {{ISBN|9781939650832}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

* Indian Army List (various dates)
* London Gazette (various dates)
* [http://www.1066.co.nz/library/battle_abbey_roll3/subchap205.htm ''Lewawse (Vis de Lou)''] The Battle Abbey Roll: With Some Account of the Norman Lineages.

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[[Category:British historical novelists]]
[[Category:Writers of historical fiction set in antiquity]]
[[Category:Writers of historical fiction set in the Middle Ages]]
[[Category:Writers of historical fiction set in the modern age]]
[[Category:People educated at Clifton College]]
[[Category:Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]
[[Category:Indian Army personnel of World War II]]
[[Category:British Indian Army officers]]
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[[Category:20th-century British novelists]]
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