Humphry Francis Ellis (17 July 1907 – 8 December 2000) was an English comic writer. He created A. J. Wentworth, the ineffectual schoolmaster whose fictional diaries were first published in the magazine Punch.
Humphry Francis Ellis was born in Metheringham, Lincolnshire. After gaining a double first in Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1930, Ellis was employed by Marlborough College to teach. Punch first accepted a submission in 1931, and he left to become a staff writer on the magazine in 1933, the same year he married Barbara Hasseldine.
Ellis became literary and deputy editor of the magazine in 1949, a post which he held until 1953, when he resigned in protest at the appointment of Malcolm Muggeridge as editor. Punch continued to publish Ellis's work, but from 1954 he found a more lucrative market in The New Yorker, where the Wentworth stories proved very popular.
The Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A. were republished by Prion Press before Ellis's death in Taunton in 2000.
A. J. Wentworth, B.A.edit
In Punch, from November 1938[1] onwards, Ellis developed the character of A. J. Wentworth, which was inspired by his experience as a schoolmaster. A collected version, The Papers of A. J. Wentworth, B.A., was first published in book form in 1949. Four further Wentworth titles appeared up to 1982.
A. J. Wentworth, B.A., a gauche, diffident and rather ineffectual mathematics teacher, works at Burgrove Preparatory School in the fictional village of Wilminster. His diaries recount the trials of teaching Pythagoras to unruly schoolboys, as well as Wentworth's experiences as an officer in the Second World War, and later his life in retirement.
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