Obituaries: Posted in the Bangor Daily News, Maine, Tuesday, September 9, 2003 London - C.H. Sisson, a British poet, novelist and critic who explored the human condition and the melancholy of growing older, has died. He was 89. Sisson died Sept. 5 at his home in Langport, southwest England, said his daughter Janet Louth. The cause of death was not announced. Born in Bristol, southwest England, Sisson graduated from Bristol University before joining the Ministry of Labor as a civil servant in 1936. During World War II he served with the British army on India's northwest frontier. His first anthology, "The London Zoo", was published in 1961 and one reviewer found in it "the inviting yet menacing ripeness of a bruised pear." But Sisson did not become well known for his poetry until "The Trojan Ditch" was published in 1974. It was regarded by some critics as one of the most important poetry collections published in England since the war. Sisson remained in the civil service until retiring in 1972, as director of Occupational Safety and Health in the Department of Employment. Other works include "Christopher Homm" (1965), a novel about working-class life, and "The Case of Walter Bagehot" (1972), a collection of criticism in which he attacked Victorian liberalism. In "English Poetry 1900-50" (1971), he accused poet W.B. Yeats of strutting and Wilfrid Owen of sometimes being "unpleasant and tasteless" while Dylan Thomas, he opined, has "very little" to say. Sisson's wife Norah died earlier this year and he is survived by his two daughters. Funeral arrangements were no announced.
Good Afternoon, List: I have just discovered that the above is a likely ancestor. His father is "a" Richard, b c1760, but the question is where. Some maintain England, but NO documentation. Your d/b, apparently based on data from Sue (Sisson) Kretchun, says VA, father, one of many Johns, but no real documentation, only vague references. Where may I contact the above? Are there others that descend via this line? Thanks, Sharon __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com