Joyce Cary

This article is about the male author Joyce Cary. There is an actress named Joyce Carey.

Life

He was born in Derry, descended from the Joyces of Galway (hence his unusual first name). Cary studied art in Paris and Edinburgh before deciding that he would be better suited to a career in writing rather than in painting.

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Derry - Galway - Art - Paris - Edinburgh - Writing

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After reading law at Oxford University, Cary went to Montenegro in 1912 to serve as a Red Cross orderly in the Balkan Wars, where he met his future wife.

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Law - Oxford University - Montenegro - 1912 - Red Cross - Balkan Wars

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Returning to Ireland the next year, Cary took up a post in the Irish government, but soon joined the Nigerian political service. During the First World War Cary served with a Nigerian regiment fighting in the German colony of Cameroon.

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Nigeria - First World War - German - Cameroon

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After the war, Cary moved to Oxford in 1920, and he stayed there until his death of motor neurone disease in 1957.

Related Topics:
Oxford - 1920 - Motor neurone disease - 1957

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