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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 46. Chapters: William Golding, Howard Spring, John Betjeman, A. L. Rowse, Nick Darke, Davies Gilbert, Donald Adamson, Arthur Quiller-Couch, Nicholas Williams, Henry Jenner, Jack Clemo, Winston Graham, Richard Edmonds, Derek Tangye, Craig Weatherhill, Richard Quiller Couch, Richard Jenkin, Robert Hunt, Joseph Carne, Robert Morton Nance, John Carne, James Silk Buckingham, Sir Richard Carew, 1st Baronet, John Angarrack, Charles Masson Fox, Cyrus Redding, James Moore, Matthew Paul Moyle, Mark Guy Pearse, Henry Boase, L. C. R. Duncombe-Jewell, Frederic Boase, Thomas Taylor, Wilfred Theodore Blake, Maria Branwell, John King, William Henry Paynter, Walter Hawken Tregellas, Elizabeth Carne, George Clement Boase, Vanessa Beeman, Joan Rendell, W. J. Burley, Joseph Hocking, Thomas Bond, Silas Hocking, Ken George, Martin Fido, William Jordan, Enys Tregarthen, Wilfred Bennetto, John Basset, Ivan Rabey, Antonia Barber, Alan M. Kent, Nicholas Boson, E. G. Retallack Hooper, John Boson, Tim Saunders, Margaret Ann Courtney, Raleigh Trevelyan, Rod Lyon, Kate Tremayne, Marshel Arthur, Donald Rawe, Thomas Boson. Excerpt: Sir John Betjeman, CBE (; 28 August 1906 - 19 May 1984) was an English poet, writer and broadcaster who described himself in Who's Who as a "poet and hack." He was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a passionate defender of Victorian architecture. Starting his career as a journalist, he ended it as one of the most popular British Poets Laureate to date and a much-loved figure on British television. Betjeman was born "John Betjemann"; this was changed to the less German "Betjeman" during the First World War. He grew up at Parliament Hill Mansions in the Lissenden Gardens private estate in Highgate in North London. His parents Mabel (nee Dawson) and Ernest Betjemann had a family firm which manufactured the kind of ornament...
