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[1] USC Main Page Tom Stacey FRSL, British novelist, publisher and man of letters (screenwriter, foreign correspondent), traveller/kingmaker, penologist

=level 1=Early Life Born 11 January, 1930, in the Manor House, Bletchingley, Surrey. He is the younger brother of the Rev Nicolas Stacey Nicolas_Stacey.

Attended Wellesley House school (1938-43), originally at Broadstairs, Kent, but from September 1939 evacuated to the Scottish Highlands.

Eton College (1943-48) TS being a fourth-generation successive Stacey pupil at Eton, where he was a solo treble, the founder of Wotton’s Society in the field of philosophy, editor (with Douglas Hurd) of the weekly Eton College Chronicle, winner of the Essay Prize, and House Captain.

Scots Guards (1948-50), in which he received his commission as 2nd Lieutenant, on active service in what is now known as peninsular Malaysia, spent his leave with the Temiar aborigines in the jungle, and wrote his first book (The Hostile Sun).

Worcester College, Oxford www.worc.ox.ac.uk (1950-51), where he founded an co-organised the controversial students’ tour operation, Undergrad Tours, during the 1951 Festival of Britain year. =level 1=Journalistic career

Staff writer Lilliput Magazine (1951-2), as a colleague of Patrick Campbell and Maurice Richardson

Feature writer and foreign correspondent for Picture Post (1952-54)

Daily Express’ ‘Express Explorer’ during 1954 in which he crossed Africa overland from the Atlantic to East Africa, accompanied by Ugandan Cambridge graduate Erisa Kironde, and lived with the Bakonzo people of the Ruwenzori Mountains

Reporter and roving correspondent for the Montreal Star (1955-56)

Rejoined Daily Express (London) in 1956-60 as foreign correspondent and diplomatic correspondent, America columnist (1957), Joined Sunday Times as roving correspondent and chief foreign correspondent (1960-65), with a worldwide brief and covering dismantling of British empire globally, and major conflict zones of the period, and interviewing many heads of state (including Nikita Khrushchev, Morarji Desai, Ayub Khan, Harold Macmillan, Eamon DeValera).

(London) Evening Standard (1965-67) to which TS moved while standing for Parliament, where TS was a columnist and roving correspondent Subsequent freelance assignments for contributions to The Times, The Sunday Telegraph, Daily Telegraph, Observer, Daily Mail, Spectator etc.

In all, Stacey has reported from over 120 countries, many of them several times.

=level 1=Publishing career

1967-70 editor and creator of Correspondence World Wide, a current affairs service for schools and universities, the company being sold to Pergamon Press

1969-73 creator and joint managing director of Tom Stacey Ltd and subsidiaries (Tom Stacey Reprints, Tom Stacey Education Ltd), which published inter alia The 20-volume ‘Peoples of the Earth’ series conceived by Stacey, and the Prospect for Man ecological series

1974 to the present day, founder and chairman of Stacey International www.stacey-international.co.uk, book publishers, originally majoring in the Middle East and Islamic world, since 2005 expanding into general book publishing and incorporating subsidiary imprints, notably Capuchin Classics www.capuchin-classics.co.uk.

=level 1=Personal life, Politics and Penology

Married Caroline Clay, in January 1952, who was to become a notable sculptor, mostly in clay for bronze, and exhibiting widely at home and abroad. The couple have had 5 children (Emma, born 1952; Tilly, born 1954; Isabella (married to Christopher Simon Sykes, the photographer and biographer), who as an international stage and opera designer works as Isabella Bywaterwww.isabellabywater.com (being the name of her first husband Michael Bywater); Sam, a civil engineer and mountaineer; and Tomasina. They have several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

The couple live at Clementi House Article text. Link text, Kensington Church Street, an early 18th century house which became Felix Mendelssohn’s music base during his early visits to London.

In October 1954, in Uganda, Stacey co-founded the Bakonzo Life History Research Society, which was to evolve as the vehicle of a recognized Kingdom of Rwenzururu 55 years later.

Contested the Parliamentary seat of Hammersmith North for the Conservative in 1964, and defeated; and of Dover 1966, where he increased the Party vote against a landslide to Labour nationally. Re-adopted for Dover, he decided to quit active politics the following year to allow for his creative life.

In 1968 he jointly led the first water-borne expedition to explore the upper reaches of the Blue Nile.

In 1974 he became a Prison Visitor, following his own imprisonment (as a foreign correspondent) in India in 1965. He continued in the role ever since.

In 1981 he conceived the electronic tag for (appropriate) offenders, as an alternative to imprisonment, and in 1982 formed and launched the Offender’s Tag Association as a pressure group for the adoption and exploitation of the Tag (a term adopted by Stacey from the inception of the scheme.) Offender Tagging has subsequently become widely used in penological reform in Britain and throughout the world. Stacey remains Director of the OTA.

In 1999 he conceived and organised ‘Pilgrimage 2000’, being the nationwide Christian pilgrimage, starting at 8 sacred sites and converging upon Canterbury to herald the new Millennium.

In 2001 Stacey was the first man to ascend to the Ruwenzori glaciers following the defeat of the guerrilla ADF.

In 2009 Tom Stacey was hailed by the 600,000 people of the Ruwenzori Mountains of central Africa as ‘catalytic agent’ in the recognition by the Government of Uganda of the King of their ethno-cultural entity, Rwenzururu.

=level 1=Literary Work

Literary work has been central to Tom Stacey throughout his life. His published work includes:

italicThe Hostile Sunitalic (Duckworth 1952), describing his journey into the Malayan rainforest in 1950. italicThe Brothers M ''italic'(Secker and Warburg1960), a major novel, set in Africa and Britain, also published in the US and in translation italicSummons to Ruwenzoriitalic (Secker and Warburg 1965), being the account of his attempt to mediate peace between the Rwenzururu rebellion and the Uganda government italicToday’s Worlditalic, a map-book of world affairs (Collins, 1970) italicImmigration and Enoch Powellitalic (Stacey) 1971 italicThe Living and the Dyingitalic (Macmillan 1976), a novel italicThe Pandemoniumitalic (WH Allen, 1980), a novel italicThe Twelfth Night of Ramadanitalic (Heinemann, 1983), a novel written under the nom-de-plume of Kendal J Peel italicThe Worm in the Roseitalic (Heinemann, 1985), a novel italicDeadlineitalic (Heinemann 1988), a novel italicBodies and Soulsitalic (Heinemann 1989), collected long-short stories italicDeclineitalic (Heinemann, 1991), a novel italicThomas Brassey, the Great Railway Builder in the Worlditalic (Stacey International 2005) a biographical monograph

Successive long-short stories: italicThe Same Old Story, The Tether of the Flesh, Golden Rain, Grief, The Swap, Boredom Or the Yellow Trousers, Mary’s Visit, The Kelpie from Rhumitalic (published in Confrontation, New York, between 1999 and 2009) italicTribe, the Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moonitalic (Stacey International, 2003), a work of travel and Kingdom-building in Rwenzururu in central Africa italicThe First Dog to be Somebody’s Best Frienditalic (Stacey International 2007), for children italicThe Man Who Knew Everythingitalic (Capuchin Classics 2008), being a revised version of Deadline

Tom Stacey's novel italicDeadlineitalic Article text. Link text was filmed to his own screenplay in 1989, starring John Hurt and Imogen Stubbs.

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literaturewww.rslit.org in 1977. His awards include the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and the Foreign Correspondent of the Year Award (1961). Various of his books have been Book of the Year choices by critics of national journals, including italicDeadlineitalic (Sunday Telegraph), italicTribeitalic (TLS), and italicThe Man Who Knew Everythingitalic (New Statesman). Most of his fiction has been separately published in the US, and some in translation. Work-in-progress includes 2 novels, and 2 further collections of long-short stories. Profiles of Tom Stacey have been published in the Observer Magazine and elsewhere.