Ronald Blythe

Ronald George Blythe CBE FRSL (6 November 1922 – 14 January 2023) was a British writer, essayist and editor, best known for his work Akenfield (1969), an account of agricultural life in Suffolk from the turn of the century to the 1960s. He wrote a long-running and considerably praised weekly column in the Church Times entitled "Word from Wormingford".

Quotes

• As for the British churchman, he goes to church as he goes to the bathroom, with the minimum of fuss and with no explanation if he can help it.
  • The Age of Illusion (1963), ch. 12

• An industrial worker would sooner have a £5 note but a countryman must have praise.
  • Akenfield (1969), ch. 5