Tom Gallon

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Tom Gallon
In The Sketch, 19 December 1900
Born	Thomas Henry Gallon (1866-12-05)5 December 1866 Bermondsey, London, England
Died	4 November 1914(1914-11-04) (aged 47) London, England
Occupation	Writer

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

Biography

Tom Gallon was born in Bermondsey, London, the son of John P. Gallon (an engineer, fitter and turner) and his wife Martha K. Gallon.

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).

He died in London on 4 November 1914.

Selected works

References

External links

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

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