R. A. H. Goodyear

Robert Arthur Hanson Goodyear was an English author of children's stories, primarily in a boys' school setting.
Born in Barnsley in Yorkshire, Goodyear attended Holgate School, Barnsley.
At the age of only seventeen he wrote a serial called "The Football Rivals" and sent it to Robert Hamilton Edwards, who had just successfully launched the The Boy's Friend periodical. Edwards was impressed and the story made its debut in the first Christmas number of the half penny Boy's Friend in 1895.
Shortly afterwards he sent some stories to Alfred Barratt who was then Editor of Henderson's Nugget Library. Barratt liked them and published them.
From these two auspicious beginnings, Goodyear went on to write many more stories and serials for both editors and also for the "Athletic News", "Tit-Bits", "Cassell's Saturday Journal" and "Pearson's Weekly".
After some years of writing for the popular weeklies and various libraries he turned his attention to writing hard-cover boys school stories, which became very successful as prizes and gifts. In all he wrote over 50 such novels between 1920 and 1938.
He also produced guides for writers.
In private life one of his favourite pastimes was producing village plays, some of which he also wrote.
He was a keen old boys' book collector and contributed many articles to the Story Paper Collector, the Collectors' Digest and Collectors' Miscellany.
He died in November 1948 at his home in Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
His home was named "Wintergleam" which was also the name of the school in his 1928 novel With Wat At Wintergleam.