Internet: Alan John Neame, only son of Alan Bruce (1888-1967) and Annie Victoria Neame, was born on 24 January 1924 in the Kentish village of Selling. His interest in family history started with a childhood discovery that a large part of the village churchyard was filled with Neame memorials. This early interest, nurtured by elderly relatives with vivid memories of his ancestors living in the mid 19th century, became a fascination that would endure throughout the seventy-six years of his life. Alan Neame graduated from Wadham College, Oxford just after the war, and taught modern languages at Cheltenham College before moving on to lecture at the University of Baghdad. After further lecturing posts in various other Middle Eastern capitals, he gave up teaching for writing and was soon to return to England and to the village of his birth that he so loved. Alan was a religious scholar, working for three years as Literary Editor of the Jerusalem Bible (Old Testament) [dsh was also a Literary Editor of the Jersualem Bible} published in 1966, and a translator of many religious works. As a historian, he wrote the definitive account of the life of Elizabeth Barton in The Holy Maid of Kent and made a study of Bernadette Soubirous in The Happening at Lourdres. Alan was also an accomplished poet and novelist and, throughout his literary life, devoted much of his time to family history. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.