Allen Upward, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAllen Upward
British politician
Date of Birth: 20-Sep-1863
Place of Birth: Worcester, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 12-Nov-1926
Profession: poet
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Allen Upward
- George Allen Upward (20 September 1863 – 12 November 1926) was a poet, lawyer, politician and teacher.
- His work was included in the first anthology of Imagist poetry, Des Imagistes, which was edited by Ezra Pound and published in 1914.
- He was a first cousin once removed of Edward Upward.
- His parents were George and Mary Upward, and he was survived by an elder sister (Mary) Edith Upward.Upward was brought up as a member of the Plymouth Brethren and trained as a lawyer at the Royal University of Dublin (now University College Dublin).
- While living in Dublin, he wrote a pamphlet in favour of Irish Home Rule. Upward later worked for the British Foreign Office in Kenya as a judge.
- Back in Britain, he defended Havelock Wilson and other labour leaders and ran for election as a Lib-Lab candidate, taking 659 votes in Merthyr at the 1895 general election.He wrote two books of poetry, Songs of Ziklag (1888) and Scented Leaves from a Chinese Jar.
- He also published a translation Sayings of Confucious and a volume of autobiography, Some Personalities (1921). Upward wrote a number of now-forgotten novels: The Prince of Balkistan (1895), A Crown of Straw (1896), A Bride's Madness (1897), The Accused Princess (1900) (source: Duncan, p.
- xii), "''The International Spy: Being a Secret History of the Russo-Japanese War" (1905), and Athelstane Ford.
- His 1910 novel "The Discovery of the Dead" is a collected fantasy (listed in Bleiler) dealing with the emerging science of Necrology. His 1913 book The Divine Mystery is an anthropological study of Christian mythology. In 1908, Upward self-published a book (originally written in 1901) which he apparently thought would be Nobel Prize material: The New Word.
- This book is today known as the first citation of the word "Scientology", however there was no delineation in this book of its definition by Upward.
- It is unknown whether L.
- Ron Hubbard, the founder of the Scientology-organization, knew of this book. In 1917 the British Museum refused to take Upwards' manuscripts, "on the grounds that the writer was still alive," and Upward burned them (source: Duncan, p.
- xi). He shot himself in November 1926.
- Ezra Pound would a decade later satirically remark that this was due to his disappointment after hearing of George Bernard Shaw's Nobel Prize award which Shaw won in 1925.
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