William Byron Forbush
, 1868 - 1927
William Byron Forbush (b. February 1868, Springfield, Vermont) was a Quaker pastor, author, teacher and composer of hymns. Forbush graduated from Dartmouth College in 1888, then served as principal of a New Hampshire school. In 1892, he became a pastor of the Riverside Congregational Church, Rhode Island, and would go on to become pastor in different locations along the East Coast. He gained official religious qualifications at the Union Theological Seminary, from which he graduated in 1889. In his home of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, he led the Woolman House, a school dedicated to religious and social education. He also founded the Knights of King Arthur in 1893, an educational and care organisation for boys. In 1895, Forbush achieved a Doctor of Laws degree from Hanover College, Indiana. He died on 23 October 1927, which makes Myths and Legends a posthumous publication if we accept the 1928 publication year given by the reference work Children’s Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology (Brazouski and Klatt) and multiple internet resources and archives.
Forbush is the author of The boy problem; a study in social pedagogy (1902), The life of Jesus (1912) and The sex-education of children (1919).
Sources:
Biographical note at the start of 2011 edition of the book: Myths and Legends of Greece and Rome: A Book by William Byron Forbush, Read Books Ltd., 2011, no location. No author given for note.
Brazouski, A. and M. J. Klatt, Children's Books on Ancient Greek and Roman Mythology: An Annotated Bibliography, Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1994 (Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature, v. 40).
Bio prepared by Robin Diver, University of Birmingham, RSD253@student.bham.ac.uk
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