John Glendower Bruce Glasier

KBG 's son John Glendower Bruce (Glen), not yet eighteen years old, died from heart failure on the football field, as her own account puts it. Reference sources say (but she does not) that...

KBG 's son Malcolm Bruce Glasier was born in 1903, and another son, John Glendower Bruce Glasier (Glen), in 1910. Malcolm, apparently unsuited to formal education, ran away to sea in 1917, and became within...

Glen , born on 24 April 1910, attended Ackworth School at Saffron Walden (a well-known Quaker boarding-school, still flourishing), where he was a gifted and brilliant scholar. At not yet eighteen he suddenly collapsed and...

In the year that her son Glen collapsed and died on the football field, KBG commemorated him in The Glen Book, published at Manchester by the Workers' Northern Publishing Co.

Published the year after her son Glen 's death, the pamphlet features a photo of the young Glen at the age of seven, head ringed in curls, with round, cherubic cheeks.

The Bruce Glasiers were finally rescued from subsistence living in 1909, when a wealthy philanthropic American widow, Elizabeth Glendower Evans , established a trust fund of $15,000 to cover their living expenses so that they...