A. J. Cronin life Biography

A.J. CRONIN
Life Biography
Theme: THE LIFE AND WORK OF ON INTELLECTUAL IN ARCHIBALD JOSEPH CRONIN`S NOVEL “THE CITADEL”
Student: Ergasheva Xosiyat
Group :1933

CONTENTS

•  Early life
• Birth place of A.J. Cronin
• Medical career
•  Family
•  The Citadel (novel

Early Life Of A.J. Cronin

A.J. Cronin full name (Archibald Joseph Cronin) was a Scottish novelist and Physician . His best-known novel was The Citadel, about a doctor in a Welsh mining village who quickly moves up the career ladder in London. Cronin had observed this scene closely as a Medical Inspector of Mines and later as a doctor in Harley Street. 
Cronin was born at Rosebank Cottage in Cardross, Dunbartonshire the only child of a Protestant mother, Jessie Cronin, and a Catholic father, Patrick Cronin, and would later write of young men from similarly mixed backgrounds. His paternal grandparents emigrated from Country Armagh, Ireland and were glass and china merchants in Alexandria. Owen Cronin, his grandfather, had his surname changed from cronague in 1870.
Rosebank’s Cottage
Place where A.J. Cronin was born

Works other than poetry

A.J. Cronin also had a medical career . During World War I, Cronin served as a Surgeon Sub-Lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve before graduating from medical school. After the war, he trained at various hospitals including Bella houston and Light burn Hospitals in Glasgow and Rotunda Hospital in Dublin. He undertook general practice work in a small village on the Clyde, Gare loch head, as well as in Tredegar, a mining town in South Wales. In 1924 he was appointed as a Medical Inspector of Mines for Great Britain.