J.R. Titmass
J.R. Titmass was a Man who lived in England during the early 21st century.
J.R. Titmass was a Man who lived in England during the early 21st century.
Biography
Mr. J.R. Titmass was a famous "historian of twentieth-century Oxford". When Mr. Howard Green, the school clerk of the Examination Schools in Oxford found the disordered bundle of The Notion Club Papers in the basement, Titmass assisted him in deciphering the papers in any way that he could. Indeed, it was Titmass who discovered that the name "Nicholas Guildford", used by the reporter of the Notion Club, was in origin derived from The Owl and the Nightingale, a medieval dialogue that was once read in Oxford.
After the publication of the first edition of the papers at an unknown date, Titmass informed Green that he couldn't "find any record in the" 1940s of any of the other names given in the Papers. As a result, Green changed his view, writing in his Second Edition foreword in 2014 that he now assumed that if any such club existed at that period, the names would have to be pseudonyms.
In other versions
In an early version of the Foreword, J.R. Titmass's original surname was Titmouse before J.R.R. Tolkien changed this to Titmass.