Editing Joyce Cary (section)

==Early life and education==
Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary was born in 1888 in his grandparents' home, which was above the Belfast Bank on Shipquay Street in [[Derry]] in [[Ulster]], the Northern [[Provinces of Ireland|province]] in [[Ireland]].<ref name=ODNB>{{ODNB|32318|title=Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel (1888–1957)|date=2012|author=Alan Bishop}}</ref> His family had been '[[Plantations of Ireland|Planter]]' landlords in neighbouring [[Inishowen]], a peninsula on the north coast of [[County Donegal]], also in [[Ulster]], since the early years of the [[Plantation of Ulster]] in the early seventeenth century. However, the family had largely lost its Inishowen property on the western shores of [[Lough Foyle]] after the passage of the [[Irish Land Act]] in 1882. The family dispersed and Cary had uncles who served in the frontier [[US Cavalry]] and the Canadian [[North-West Mounted Police]]. Most of the Carys wound up in [[Great Britain]]. Arthur Cary, his father, moved to [[London]] in 1884 and trained as an engineer. He then married Charlotte Joyce, elder daughter of James John Joyce, manager of the Belfast Bank, Derry, in August 1887 and they settled in London.<ref name=ODNB>{{ODNB|32318|title=Cary, (Arthur) Joyce Lunel (1888–1957)|date=2012|author=Alan Bishop}}</ref> His mother died of pneumonia in October 1898.<ref name=ODNB/>

Throughout his childhood, Cary spent many summers at his grandmother's house in the north of Ireland and at Cromwell House in England, home of a great-uncle, which served as a base for all the Cary clan. Some of this upbringing is described in the fictionalised memoir ''A House of Children'' (1941) and the novel ''Castle Corner'' (1938) – i.e., Cary Castle, one of his family's lost properties in [[Inishowen]] in [[Ulster]]. Although Cary remembered his West Ulster childhood with affection and wrote about it with great feeling, he was based in [[England]] for the rest of his life. The feeling of displacement and the idea that life's tranquillity may be disturbed at any moment marked Cary and informs much of his writing. His health was poor as a child. He was subject to asthma, which recurred throughout his life, and was nearly blind in one eye, which caused him to wear a monocle when he was in his twenties. Cary was educated at [[Clifton College]]<ref>"Clifton College Register" Muirhead, J.A.O. ref no 6138: Bristol; J.W Arrowsmith for Old Cliftonian Society; April 1948</ref>  in Bristol, England, where he was a member of Dakyns House. His mother died during this period, leaving him a small legacy which served as his financial base until the 1930s.{{citation needed|date=June 2014}}

In 1906, determined to be an artist, Cary travelled to Paris. Discovering that he needed more technical training, Cary then studied art in Edinburgh. Soon enough, he determined that he could never be more than a third rate painter and decided to apply himself to literature. He published a volume of poems which, by his own later account, was "pretty bad," and then entered [[Trinity College, Oxford]]. There he became friends with fellow student [[John Middleton Murry]] and introduced Murry to Paris on a holiday together. He neglected his studies and graduated from Oxford with a [[British undergraduate degree classification|fourth class degree]].<ref>{{cite book|author=David Scott Kastan|title=The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature|volume=1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DlMUSz-hiuEC&q=Joyce+Cary+Oxford+fourth+class+degree&pg=PA398|page=398|year=2006|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-195-16921-8}}</ref>