Intelligence officer and author. Born at Woodlands, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire. He joined the archaeological team of Sir Flinders Petrie at Carchemish on the Euphrates, where he first met the Bedoui...
Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Seriously Famous, Middle East, Wales
Born Bowman's Lodge, (now Bowman's Mews), the penultimate of 21 children. Artist and writer of nonsense works, such as The Owl and the Pussycat, and limericks, e.g. There was an old person of Putn...
Writer. Born in Erith, Kent. During WW2 he served in Burma where he spent eighteen hours adrift in the Indian Ocean after his ship was torpedoed. After the war he joined the Daily Express and becam...
Pen name of espionage novel writer, David John Moore Cornwell. Born in Poole, Dorset. He took up writing when he was working for MI5 and MI6 in the 1950s and 60s. Best known for the novels 'The Spy...
Historian. Born William Edward Hartpole Lecky in Newtonpark, County Dublin, Ireland. Initially he studied to be a priest in the Protestant Church of Ireland, but turned to historiography. His chief...
Novelist. Born Rosamond Nina Lehmann in Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. An associate of the Bloomsbury Group, she achieved great success with her first novel 'Dusty Answer' in 1927. Her subsequent wor...
Born at the Whittington Hospital to Jamaican parents and and grew up in Twyford House on the Blackstock council estate. Best known for her novels 'Small Island' and 'The Long Song'. She wrote from ...
Poet and novelist. Born Ireland but brought up in London. His mystery novels were written under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake. During the 1940s, while still married to his first wife, he had a long...
Home Secretary 1859-60. Born London. Before entering politics Lewis studied linguistics and published a number of books throughout his life.
Artist and writer. Born Percy Wyndham Lewis but he didn't like the Percy and dropped it. He was born in his wealthy American father's yacht off Amherst, Nova Scotia, to a British mother who left he...
Person, Art, Literature, USA
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