Biography of aj cronin
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By what appears to be an amazing coincidence, AJ Cronin, known mostly nowadays for the Dr Finlay’s Casebook programmes, worked as a GP in Tredegar, Monmouthshire, in the early s, at the same time as Aneurin Bevan, who was born there. It is almost inconceivable that they didn’t meet, although there is no evidence that they did. Bevan worked for the Tredegar Workmens’ Medical Aid Society in this traditional coal mining community and Cronin was particularly interested in the effects of coal dust exposure on miners’ lungs. Bevan was on his way to becoming the architect of the NHS as a Labour Health Minister, while Cronin’s career would take him to medical practice in London and on to a hugely successful career as an author. His first novel, Hatter’s Castle, was written when he was being treated with prolonged rest for a duodenal ulcer, and was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd in to immediate critical and public acclaim. He never practised again.
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Archibald Joseph Cronin - better known simply as A.J. Cronin - lived from 19 July to 6 January He was one of the most commercially successful Scottish writers of the 20th Century. The wider picture in Scotland at the time is set out in our Historical Timeline.
Cronin was born in Cardross in Dunbartonshire. He was an only child of a Catholic father and a Protestant mother, and was brought up by his mother as a Catholic after the death of his father. Religion was something that mattered more than it should have done in West Central Scotland at the time, and he talked years later of "A feeling of social inferiority a sort of spiritual wound deriving from my religion."
He attended Dumbarton Academy and his obvious abilities won him a scholarship to study medicine at Glasgow University, where he met his wife, another medical student, Agnes Gibson. Cronin interrupted
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A. J. Cronin
Scottish physician and novelist (–)
Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July – 6 January ), known as A. J. Cronin, was a Scottish physician and novelist.[2] His best-known novel is The Citadel (), about a Scottish physician who serves in a Welsh mining village before achieving success in London, where he becomes disillusioned about the venality and incompetence of some doctors. Cronin knew both areas, as a medical inspector of mines and as a physician in Harley Street. The book exposed unfairness and malpractice in British medicin and helped to inspire the National Health Service.[3]
The Stars Look Down, set in the North East of England, is another of his best-selling novels inspired bygd his work among miners. Both novels have been filmed, as have Hatter's Castle, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years. His novella Country Doctor inspired a long-running BBC radio and TV series, Dr. Finlay's Casebook (–), set in the s. There was a