Novelist. Born Hugh Seymour Walpole in Auckland, New Zealand, the son of Somerset Walpole. He was educated in Britain and became a schoolmaster before turning to authorship. His novels include 'Mr Perrin and Mr Traill', 'The Dark Forest' and 'The Secret City'. Knighted in 1937, he died at his home, Brackenburn, Manesty Park, Derwentwater, Cumberland.
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Hugh Walpole
This plaque is possibly spurious. It has definitely upset the Chairman of the...
Caricaturist and writer. Born 57 Palace Gardens Terrace, Kensington. In the Oscar Wilde circle of friends. He became successful and famous at aged 24, but never rich. Half brother and cousin to He...
Folk singer, songwriter, dramatist, Marxist. Born James Miller in Salford, Lancashire. Three wives: theatre director Joan Littlewood, movement teacher Jean Newlove (with whom he had Kirsty MacColl)...
Person, Literature, Music / songs, Politics & Administration, Theatre
Comic novel written by Jerome K. Jerome, first published in 1889.
Novelist. Â Born Chilvers Coton, Warwickshire. Â Pen name of Mary Ann (or Marian) Evans. Spent her first 21 years on a farm, now (2015) the Griff House Beefeater Grill restaurant on the Coventry Road...
Born Edinburgh, died London. Known for his two-volume biography 'The Life Of Samuel Johnson' (1791).
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