Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 08 March 1928
The Author of “Shadows of Strife.”
Mr. John Davison, author of the play “Shadows of Strife” which is be presented for the first time by the Playgoers’ Society tonight, is a working-man dramatist.
He is employed as a fitter at the Mexborough Loco. Running Sheds of the L. and N.E. Railway Company. He lives at Swinton. He lived in Mexborough before his marriage to Miss Jackson, sister of the late Norman Jackson, V.C., of Swinton, who won the Victoria Cross and was later killed in the Great War.
Mr. Davison owes his development as playwright to his former inclination to write short stories, which venture, although not attended with much publicity, led to recognition of his dramatic instincts.
His friend, Mr. J. Parton, of Mexborough, introduced him London critics, and later Mr. Davison’s “Shadows of Strife” took shape and was favourably criticised and reshaped by the author for production.
He follows his work regularly an engine fitter and does his studying in his leisure time.