Edwin Gerald Jones Biss
Edwin Gerald Jones Biss (1876–1922) was an English motoring journalist and author of short stories. His stories were often serialised in journals and newspapers. Family Biss was born in Cambridge, England; his mother was Janet Jones from Otago, New Zealand; his father was physician Cecil Yates Biss. He was educated at University College, The Leys School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. In the 1901 census, Biss was recorded as visiting Offham Farm, just north of Arundel in Sussex. The farm was owned by Alexander Allan (Allen) who was from Marnech, Banffshire, Scotland. In 1905 Biss married his daughter Sarah Ann Coutts Allan (1878-1952); they had two children: Couttie Margaret Janet Biss (1907-1988) and Godfrey Charles D'arcy Biss (1910-1989). Biss collapsed and died at age 46 whilst visiting his friend Alfred Eyde Manning Foster. Biss' four brothers pre-deceased him; the eldest, Major Harold Cecil Jones Biss, died in 1921 aged 51. Another brother, Dr. Hubert Elwyn Jones Biss (1871-1909), was one of the physicians who attended William Ewart Gladstone during his final illness and death at Hawarden Castle. Career Biss originally planned a career in the legal profession, but he found success in writing short stories. By 1901, he was describing himself