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Edward Powys Mathers (28 August 1892 – 3 February 1939) was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords . Powys Mathers was born in Forest Hill , London, the son of Edward Peter Mathers , newspaper proprietor.[1] Loretto School and Trinity College, Oxford .
He translated J. C. Mardrus 's French version of One Thousand Nights and One Night The Garden of Bright Waters: One Hundred and Twenty Asiatic Love Poems (1920); and the Kashmiri poet Bilhana in Bilhana: Black Marigolds (1919), a free interpretation in the tradition of Edward FitzGerald , quoted at length in John Steinbeck ’s novel Cannery Row Aaron Copland .
He was also a composer of cryptic crosswords for The Observer Torquemada " from 1926 until his death. He was the author of Crosswords for Riper Years (1925) and The Torquemada Puzzle Book Cain's Jawbone [2]
In 1919 he married Rosamond Crowdy (5 July 1886 – 7 June 1965), third daughter of Colonel H. Crowdy, RE.[2]
He died in his sleep at his home in Hampstead.[3]
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^ The Stage , 9 February 1939, page 7.
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