Joyce Cary Novelist
- Gender: Male
- Citizenship: United Kingdom
- Born: Dec 7, 1888
- Died: Mar 29, 1957
Joyce Cary (born Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, December 7, 1888 - March 29, 1957) was an Anglo-Irish novelist and artist.
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary was born in a hospital in Derry, Ireland, on December 7, 1888. His family had been landlords in Inishowen in County Donegal since Elizabethan times, but lost their property after passage of the Irish Land Act in 1882. Cary's grandfather died soon after and his grandmother moved into a cottage near Cary Castle, one of the lost family properties.
The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier US Cavalry and the Canadian North-West Mounted Police. Most of the Carys wound up in England. Arthur Cary, his father, trained as an engineer and married Charlotte Joyce, the well-to-do daughter of a Belfast banker. After his son was born in 1888, Arthur moved his family to London.
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