George Stanley Godwin

Who was George Stanley Godwin?

George Stanley Godwin was an English/Canadian author of fiction and non-fiction books.

Godwin was born in London, one of eight children. He was four when his father died. He was educated at boarding schools in Sussex, Kent and Dresden, Germany. He worked briefly for a bank in England, then emigrated to British Columbia, Canada. A couple of his brothers had already moved there. He returned to England in 1916. He fought in France during World War I for the Canadian army, but contracted tuberculosis and was sent to recuperate at a sanitarium near the Arrow Lakes. He then returned to England. Entering the legal profession, he was called to the bar in the 1920s.