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Edward Frederic Benson (1867-1940) was the son of the Archbishop of Canterbury and member of a distinguished and eccentric family. After attending Marlborough and King’s College, Cambridge where he studied classics and archaeology, he worked at the British School of Archaeology in Athens. He ac
John Buchan was born in Perth, in 1875, the son of a minister of the Free Church of Scotland. In 1876 his family moved to Fife, where as a small boy he walked six miles a day in order to attend the local school, and then later to the Gorbals in Glasgow. Buchan was later educated at Hutchesons’
G K Chesterton was born in London in 1874, and lived there for more than half his life. He was educated at St Paul’s School, where, despite his efforts to achieve oblivion at the bottom of his class, he was singled out as a boy with distinct literary promise. He decided to follow art as a caree
John Stewart Collis was born in 1900 of an Irish family. He was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford. Among his publications are SHAW (1925), THE SOUNDING CATARACT (1936), DOWN TO EARTH (1947) – which won the Heinemann Foundation Award, THE LIFE OF TOLSTOY (1969), THE VISION OF
Alfred Walter Stewart (1880-1947) was a British chemist and part-time novelist who wrote in the golden-age of detective fiction under the pseudonym of J J Connington. He created several fictional detectives, including Superintendent Ross and Chief Constable Sir Clinton Driffield.
Frederick Copleston was born in 1907. Raised in England as an Anglican, Copleston converted to Catholicism shortly after he turned 18 years of age. In 1930, he became a Jesuit and was ordained a Jesuit priest while at Heythrop College in 1937.
Constance Garnett (1861-1946) was an English translator of nineteenth-century Russian literature. In 1889 she married Edward Garnett, a distinguished publisher’s reader. In 1891 she was introduced by Edward to the Russian exile Felix Volkhovsky, who began teaching her Russian.
P M Hubbard was educated at Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize for English Verse in 1933. From 1934 to 1947 he served in the Indian Civil Service and upon its disbandment returned to England to work for the British Council in London. In 1951 he resigned to freelance as a writer. Later he
A E W Mason was born in 1865. He became a successful novelist after failing to become an actor. He is best remembered for THE FOUR FEATHERS (1902, with a film version in 1939). His many other popular works include the series featuring Inspector Hanaud, which began with AT THE VILLA ROSE (1910)