Why was C.S. Lewis known as “Jack”?
He didn’t like the name “Clive” and as a small child had a pet dog called Jacksie, which was run over by one of the first cars in Northern Ireland. Jack decided that from thenceforth he would answer to nothing but “Jacksie,” and this became “Jack” in due course. The only person who seems ever to have called him Clive was William Kirkpatrick, his boyhood tutor.
He didn’t like the name ‘Clive’ and as a small child had a pet dog called Jacksie, which was run over by one of the first cars in Northern Ireland. Jack decided that from thenceforth he would answer to nothing but ‘Jacksie’, and this became ‘Jack’ in due course. The only person who seems ever to have called him Clive was William Kirkpatrick, his boyhood tutor.
