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M. R. James

1862-1936 GB, Goodnestone, Dover
Spoken Word
A.k.a. Montague Rhodes James

M. R. James (1862–1936) was an English author and medievalist scholar, best remembered for his ghost stories, collected in "Ghost Stories of an Antiquary" and other volumes. As a scholar, he discovered a manuscript fragment which resulted in excavations in the ruins of the abbey at Bury St Edmunds, West Suffolk, in 1902, leading to the discovery of the graves of several twelfth-century abbots. He also translated the New Testament apocrypha.