{"id":405,"date":"2019-11-05T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T16:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/?page_id=405"},"modified":"2019-11-06T09:40:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T09:40:55","slug":"cedric-mays","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/collections\/school-of-social-work\/student-admission-files\/cedric-mays\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedric Mays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-487 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/files\/2019\/11\/CM-round.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"237\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/files\/2019\/11\/CM-round.png 236w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/files\/2019\/11\/CM-round-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/>Cedric &#8220;Spike&#8221; Mays, one of the department&#8217;s mature students, was 45yrs old when he enrolled in 1952. His application includes a letter of reference from poet Edwin Muir as warden at Newbattle Abbey College where Mays was a contemporary of George Mackay Brown. Prior to attending the college he had been in the army for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Essex, Cedric\u2019s memoir \u201cReuben\u2019s Corner: An English Country Boyhood\u201d was first published in 1969 and subsequently re-issued as \u201cThe Only Way Was Essex\u201d in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>He kept in touch with staff and refers in a letter to his association with Lieut. Col. Alfred Wintle, subject of the book and biopic \u201cThe Last Englishman\u201d for whom he was organising a lecture tour of the USA following the Colonel\u2019s short imprisonment in the late 1950s.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><em>&#8220;A man of very considerable ability as well as of unusual experience&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/collections\/school-of-social-work\/student-admission-files\/\">Back<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cedric &#8220;Spike&#8221; Mays, one of the department&#8217;s mature students, was 45yrs old when he enrolled in 1952. His application includes a letter of reference from poet Edwin Muir as warden at Newbattle Abbey College where Mays was a contemporary of George Mackay Brown. Prior to attending the college he had been in the army for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"parent":327,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/PcAc22-6x","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":579,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/405\/revisions\/579"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/socialwork100\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}