Currently browsing category

Biographical Entries, Page 2

An index of the Biographical entries made by the students of Writing Lives.

Biographical Entry: Harold Heslop, 1898-1983.

Born 1 Oct 1898 in Rough Lea, Co. Durham. Died 10 Nov 1983. Father a pit deputy. 4 brothers. 3 sisters (one …

C.V. Horner (1897-1980): Biographical Entry

2. 422 HORNER, C.V., ‘Ups and Downs: A Lifetime spent in the Yorkshire Dales’, TS, pp.242 (c.80,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born …

Annie Lord (b. 1899): Biographical Entry

2:486 LORD, Annie, ‘My Life’, MS, pp.12 (c.2,750 words). Brunel University Library. Born around the turn of the century, probably in the district of …

Claude Robinson (b.1898)

669 ROBINSON, Claude, These We Have Loved (New Horizon, Bognor Regis, 1982), pp.165 + 28pp. index, 1p. list of abbreviations, 14pp. chapter …

John Urie (b. 1820) Biographical entry

1:724 URIE, John, Reminiscences of Eighty Years (Alexander Gardner, Paisley, 1908), pp.155. Illustrated. Born 1820 in Paisley. Son of a hand-loom weaver …

John Robinson (b. circa 1850): Biographical Entry

923 ROBINSON, John. ‘A Butler’s View of Man-Service’, The Nineteenth Century, Vol. 31. January – June, 1892. Extract in J. Burnett (ed.), …

Patrick McGeown (b. 1897): Biographical Entry

Born 1897 in Craigneuk, Scotland, of Irish parents. Father a steel furnaceman and mother formerly a mill worker. 1 brother, 1 sister. …

A. Gordon James (b.1885): Biographical Entry

Born 1885 in Fulham. One of 2(?) children of a tailor and cutter. Educated at village school; Board School and Sunday School …

Ada Marion Jefferis (1884-1981): Biographical Entry

1:379 JEFFERIS, Ada Marion,‘The Memoirs of A.M. Jefferis. Written by her Daughter’, TS, pp.1-19 (c.7,000 words). Brunel University Library. Born 10 July 1884 …

Lucy Luck (1848-1922): Biographical Entry

456 LUCK, Lucy, ‘A Little of My Life’, edited by J. C. Squire, London Mercury, Vol. xiii, No.76, Nov 1925-Apr 1926, pp.354-73. …