Ward Muir

J. J. Muir, a minister of the Waterloo Presbyterian Church of England, and his wife Sarah Openshaw Clapperton, both born in Scotland.

[5] After leaving school, Muir matriculated at Liverpool University, but soon after that his health broke down, due to a lung disease, and he was ordered to go to Davos.

"[3] After travelling in France, the Low Countries, Italy, and Austria, about 1898 Muir began selling photographic work to magazines.

"[10] Muir's novel When We Are Rich (1911) is a tale of Bohemian art student life, with "a fascinating flirt, a delightful old maid, and a generous baron".

[13] He served as an orderly with his artist friends Francis Derwent Wood[14] and C. R. W. Nevinson, working at the Third London General Hospital at Wandsworth, where he established a magazine, "Happy Though Wounded".

[3] In Observations of an Orderly (1917), Muir wrote of wounded soldiers arriving from the theatres of war and "the spontaneous geniality of the battered occupants".

"[3] In October 1920, Muir was reported to have suffered a breakdown in health, due to over-work, soon after completing a book of short stories, Adventures in Marriage.

In its review, The Spectator comments that the minor characters are very life-like, but "It is difficult to believe in the beautiful Miriam herself and impossible to suppose that she lived happily and virtuously ever after in the company of Bob Taylor, a very unexciting person.