tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post5641329949890865000..comments2024-03-28T04:26:30.557-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: The Legend of “Gentleman Johnny” BurgoyneUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-5748074286622582592013-09-23T14:29:02.873-05:002013-09-23T14:29:02.873-05:00Thanks for the links! Shaw’s phrase was “Gentleman...Thanks for the links! Shaw’s phrase was “Gentlemanly Johnny,” so someone had to cut that down to “Gentleman Johnny.” <br /><br />Hudleston was the first author to use it in a Burgoyne biography, but Google Books finds some earlier examples between Shaw’s play and Hudleston’s book. Among them are;<br />• Archibald Henderson’s critical biography of Shaw in 1911. <br />• Article about play-reading in the <i>Bulletin of the New Hampshire Public Libraries</i> for 1915.<br />• <i>A Handbook of New England</i> from 1916. <br />• The <i>Automobile Blue Book</i> for 1917. <br />• paper by Samuel F. Batchelder in the <i>Cambridge</i> (Mass.) <i>Historical Society Publications</i> for 1918.<br /><br />So we can trace the phrase from Shaw into New England popular history and finally scholarship. <br /><br />I’ll work on “Sir Jack Brag” for tomorrow. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-34829061602357276582013-09-23T13:47:30.923-05:002013-09-23T13:47:30.923-05:00Interesting, not to doubt my friend (and former Ch...Interesting, not to doubt my friend (and former Chief of Interpretation at Saratoga NHP) however in my interview with Doug Cubbison,http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/2012/06/27/qa-douglas-cubbison-on-british-general-burgoyne/ he attributes it to English biographer, F.J. Huddleston in 1927 in his study: Gentleman Johnny Burgoyne, Misadventures of an English General in the Revolution<br /><br />The other Burgoyne nickname is earlier - Sir Jack Brag attributed to Stone in 1893<br />http://archive.org/stream/balladspoemsrela00ston/balladspoemsrela00ston_djvu.txt<br /><br /><br /><br />Sean Kelleherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03304030755291791475noreply@blogger.com