Bussy [née Strachey], Dorothea [Dorothy] [pseud. Olivia] (1865–1960), translator and author, was born on 24 July 1865 at Willenhall, near Barnet, London, the third of the ten children (three others died in infancy) of Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Strachey (1817–1908), scientist and administrator in ...
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D. A. Steel
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Austin Gill (1906–1990) by James Johnston Rough, c. 1939 © reserved; by kind permission of Helene Demisay
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Peter France
Gill, Austin (1906–1990), French scholar, was born on 3 September 1906 at 6B Northgate Street, Stockport, the second child and first son of Austin Gill (b. 1876/7), a cotton operative, and his wife, Ada, née Nuttall (b. 1880/81). His parents were also born in the ...
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D. R. O'Connor Lysaght
Skeffington, Owen Lancelot Sheehy- (1909–1970), French scholar and politician, was born on 19 May 1909 in hospital at 122 Lower Baggot Street, Dublin, the only child of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878–1916), journalist, and Johanna Mary, known as Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877–1946), lecturer and journalist, eldest daughter of ...
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Elspeth Kennedy
Woledge, Brian (1904–2002), French scholar, was born on 16 August 1904 at 8 Fairmount Road, Brixton, London, the younger son and second of the three children of Henry (Harry) Woledge (1863–1926), woollen warehouse man and commercial traveller, and his wife, Fanny Bessie, née...
