Tom Gallon

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Tom Gallon (5 December 1866 – 4 November 1914) was a British playwright and novelist. He was the brother of author and publicist , who founded the Tom-Gallon Trust Award^[1] for beginning writers in memory of her brother.

Biography[]

Thomas Henry Gallon was born in Bermondsey, London, the son of John P. Gallon (an engineer, fitter and turner) and his wife Martha K. Gallon.^[2]

Several of Tom Gallon's novels were adapted as films including The Princess of Happy Chance (1916), Meg the Lady (1916), The Cruise of the Make-Believes (1918), The Lackey and the Lady (1919), A Rogue in Love (1922), Boden's Boy (1923), Off the Highway (1925, based on Tatterley), The Great Gay Road (1920, silent) and The Great Gay Road (1931, sound).^[2]

Selected works[]

Novels

• Tatterley (1897)
• The Golden Thread (1904)
• Meg the Lady (1905)
• Jimmy Quixote (1906)
• The Great Gay Road (1910)
• The Touch of A Child (1910)
• The Mystery of Roger Bullock (1910)
• The Rogue's Heiress (1910)
• As He was Born (1911)
• Dead Man's Love (1911)
• By the Name of Miss Smith (1912)
• Levity Hicks (1912)
• Memory Corner (1912)
• Young Eve and Old Adam (1913)
• "It Will Be All Right!" (1914)
• The Man in Motley (1915)
• The Princess of Happy Chance (1915)
• The Diamond Trail (1916)

• The Man Hunt (1916)
• The Lady in the Black Mask (1917)

Plays

• The Man Who Stole the Castle, by Gallon and Leon M. Lion (Garrick Theatre, 1900)
• Memory's Garden (1902)
• Lady Jane's Christmas Party (Garrick Theatre, 1904)
• Law and Order (Palace Theatre, 1908)
• The Great Gay Road (Court Theatre, 1911)
• Aurora's Captive (Prince of Wales Theatre, 1913)
• All's Fair (Tivoli Musichall, 1913)
• Felix Gets a Month, Gallon and Lion (Haymarket Theatre, 1917)
• Pistols For Two, Gallon and Lion (Coliseum, 1917)

References[]

External links[]

• Tom Gallon at Fantastic Fiction – bibliography with cover images]
• Works by Tom Gallon at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Tom Gallon at Internet Archive
• Tom Gallon at IMDb
• Tom Gallon at Library of Congress Authorities, with 18 catalogue records
• Play by Tom Gallon at Great War Theatre

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