James Elroy Flecker (5 November 1884 - 3 January 1915) was a British, novelist and playwright. As a poet he was most influenced by the Parnassian poets.Born on 5 November 1884 in Lewisham, London, and baptised Herman Elroy Flecker, Flecker later chose to use the first name "James," either because he disliked the name "Herman" or to avoid confusion with his father. "Roy," as his family called him, was educated at Dean Close School, Cheltenham, where his father was the headmaster, and later at Uppingham School. He studied at Trinity College, Oxford, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. While at Oxford he was greatly influenced by the last flowering of the Aesthetic movement there under John Addington Symonds, and became a close friend of the classicist and art historian John Beazley