He served as Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh from 1930 to 1937.

In 1922 he delivered his celebrated Rectorial Address on Courage at St Andrews, and visited University College Dundee with Earl Haig to open its new playing fields, with Barrie bowling a few balls to Haig. In 1919 he was elected Rector of the University of St Andrews for a three-year term. He was made a member of the Order of Merit in 1922. Honoursīarrie was appointed a baronet by King George V in 1913. He left the bulk of his estate to his secretary Cynthia Asquith, but excluding the rights to all Peter Pan works (which included The Little White Bird, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, the play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Would Not Grow Up and the novel Peter and Wendy), whose copyright he had previously given to Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. Before his death, he gave the rights to the Peter Pan works to Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, which continues to benefit from them. Barrie was made a baronet by George V on 14 June 1913, and a member of the Order of Merit in the 1922 New Year Honours. Barrie unofficially adopted the Davies boys following the deaths of their parents. There he met the Llewelyn Davies boys, who inspired him to write about a baby boy who has magical adventures in Kensington Gardens (included in The Little White Bird), then to write Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up, a 'fairy play' about an ageless boy and an ordinary girl named Wendy who have adventures in the fantasy setting of Neverland.Īlthough he continued to write successfully, Peter Pan overshadowed his other work, and is credited with popularising the name Wendy. He was born and educated in Scotland but moved to London, where he wrote a number of successful novels and plays.

Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM ( – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish novelist and playwright, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan.

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