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Iain Lonie (Iain Malcolm Lonie) was born on 1932 in March, Cambridgeshire, is a New Zealand poet and historian. Discover Iain Lonie's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 56 years old?

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Age 56 years old
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Born 1932, 1932
Birthday 1932
Birthplace March, Cambridgeshire
Date of death 18 June, 1988
Died Place Dunedin, New Zealand
Nationality New Zealand

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His wife is Jean Andrews (m. 1951-1966) Judith Benson (m. 1969-1982)

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1942

Lonie was born in the town of March, Cambridgeshire, and moved to Gisborne in New Zealand with his family in 1942.

1951

Lonie married Jean Andrews in 1951, a science student he met at Carrington Hall.

They had four children together between 1951 and 1962.

1954

He completed a Bachelor of Arts in classics at the University of Otago in 1954, and went on to read classics King's College, Cambridge, specialising in ancient philosophy and the history of medicine.

1956

He graduated from Cambridge in 1956 with a first-class honours degree and a distinction in ancient philosophy.

In 1956, Lonie was appointed as a lecturer in classics at the University of New England, New South Wales.

It was at the University of New England that Lonie met famous New Zealand writer C. K. Stead, and the two worked together on a translation of Alcestis by Euripides, which was performed by the University Players in the Armidale Town Hall, and a version later broadcast for the ABC.

1959

In 1959, he moved to the University of Sydney to become a lecturer in Latin.

1965

In 1965, he returned to New Zealand and took up a position as a senior lecturer in classics at the University of Otago.

1966

In 1966, in the new year, he left his wife Jean for Judith Black, a post-graduate student he had met in Sydney, who moved to Dunedin with her daughter.

1967

Lonie's first volumes of poetry were published in 1967 and 1970.

Lonie's first two volumes of poetry were published during this time: Recreations (Wai-te-ata Press, 1967) and Letters from Ephesus (The Bibliography Room, University of Otago, 1970).

1969

They were married in 1969.

1970

In 1970 Lonie was promoted to Assistant Professor, and in 1973 he and Judith had a son.

1974

In 1974 Lonie resigned from his university post to become a deckhand on the Otago Harbour Board dredge, seemingly as a result of an attack of depression, from which Lonie suffered throughout his life.

He gained a nautical qualification at night school.

1978

In 1978 Lonie and his wife moved to Newcastle upon Tyne with their son in order that she could study a degree in speech therapy, and Lonie took up a position as a research fellow at the Wellcome Institute.

1981

His book, A Commentary on the Hippocratic Treatises 'On Generation', 'On the Nature of the Child' and 'Diseases IV' (1981) was the definitive text on these treatises for many years, and continues to be widely cited in academic literature.

1982

After the sudden death of his second wife in 1982, loss and grief became his central poetic themes.

In December 1982, his wife Judith died suddenly and he returned to New Zealand with his young son.

1984

His next volumes of poetry, Courting Death (Wai-te-ata, 1984) and The Entrance to Purgatory (McIndoe, 1986), record the grief he felt about her death and his difficulties in coming to terms with it.

He also edited a collection of Judith's poetry, The Remembering of the Elements, which was published in 1984.

1987

The Entrance to Purgatory was shortlisted at the 1987 New Zealand Book Awards.

A review in The Press described his poetry on the subject of death as "genuine and moving" and displaying "considerable virtuosity", although noted that the title poem in particular seemed to owe a debt to Allen Curnow.

He became an editor for a printing firm and briefly for the Otago University Press.

1988

Iain Malcolm Lonie (1932 – 18 June 1988) was a British-born New Zealand poet and a historian of ancient Greek medicine.

His academic career was spent between New Zealand, Australia and England.

He read classics at the University of Cambridge, lectured at universities in both Australia and New Zealand, worked as a research fellow for the Wellcome Trust, and wrote a definitive textbook on the Hippocratic texts On Generation, On the Nature of the Child and Diseases IV.

In 1988, Lonie took his own life.

1991

His final volume of poetry, Winter Walk at Morning (Victoria University Press, 1991), was published posthumously.

He was described after his death as "one of the best and most innovative modern historians of classical medicine".

He wrote extensively on the Hippocratic Corpus and ancient Greek medicine.

1996

In 1996, Dunedin composer Anthony Ritchie set Lonie's poems "Collection Day" and "My Toaster Tells the Time" to music in his work Opus 76, Five Dunedin Songs.

Lonie's oldest daughter, Bridie Lonie, is an artist and academic.

2006

The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature (2006) records that Lonie was bothered by the "lack of recognition" of his work within the New Zealand literary world, as he hoped to be remembered for his work as a poet rather than as an academic.

It highlights the classicism in his poetry through retold legends and mythological references; "Firmly located within particular places, and enriched by traditional cultural echoes, his poetry reveals a strong lyric voice and intense feeling, always tempered by controlled handling of verse forms and by very discriminating choice of language."

2010

99 Ways Into New Zealand Poetry (2010), by Paula Green and Harry Ricketts, names Lonie as an example of a "maverick" New Zealand poet, "whose work demands but has not yet received the attention it deserves".

2011

It was made available as an e-book in 2011.

Lonie's translations of Hippocratic texts The Nature of the Child, The Seed and The Heart were printed in Hippocratic Writings by G.E.R. Lloyd, a Penguin Classic.

2015

His poems received little critical attention during his lifetime, but in 2015 (nearly three decades after his death) the publication of his collected works by New Zealand poet and editor David Howard sparked renewed interest in his work.