Bensusan, Samuel Levy (1872–1958), journalist and author, was born on 29 September 1872 at Dulwich, London, the second of five children of Jacob Samuel Levy Bensusan (1846–1917), feather merchant, and Miriam (1848–1926), the daughter of Moses Levy Bensusan and his wife, Emily. His parents were Orthodox Sephardi Jews of Spanish descent whose ancestors had held high office in the courts of the ...
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Eyles [née Pitcairn; other married name Murray], (Margaret) Leonora (1889–1960), novelist and journalist, was born on 1 September 1889 at 5 Eastcott Street, Swindon, the eldest of three children of Andrew Tennant Pitcairn (1861–1905) and his wife, Rosa, née Bevan (1863/4–1902). Her family were ...
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Russell, George William [pseud. A. E.] (1867–1935), journalist, poet, and agricultural economist, was born on 10 April 1867 at William Street, in the Ulster town of Lurgan, the youngest of three children of Thomas Elias Russell (1822?–1900), a bookkeeper employed by Bell & Co....
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George William Russell (1867–1935) by John Butler Yeats, 1903 National Gallery of Ireland
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Sinnett, Alfred Percy (1840–1921), journalist and theosophist, was born in London on 18 January 1840, the younger son in the family of three daughters and two sons of Edward William Percy Sinnett (1799–1844), a journalist who was latterly a staff member on the Morning Herald for which he wrote parliamentary reports, and his wife, ...
