Writer. Born Margery Louise Allingham in Ealing. Initially she studied drama and speech-training to cure a stammer. She turned to writing, and in 1929 published her first successful novel, 'The Crime at Black Dudley' which introduced the gentleman detective Albert Campion. The character was immediately popular and appeared in seventeen more novels. Died at Severalls Hospital, Colchester.
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Margery Allingham
Margery Allingham, 1904 - 1966, writer of crime fiction and creator of Albert...
Edward Frederic. Â Writer best know for the Mapp and Lucia series set in the village of Tilling, actually Rye, which Benson first visited to see Henry James who was staying there. Born Wellington C...
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...
Diarist and Secretary of the Admiralty. Â Born Salisbury Court, where his father ran a tailoring business. The house backed onto St Brides church. Highly regarded administrator of the navy. Served C...
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