Brazil, Angela (1868–1947), children's writer, was born at 1 West Cliff, Preston, Lancashire, on 30 November 1868, the younger daughter and fourth child of Clarence Brazil (1831–1899) and his wife, Angelica McKinnell (1835/6–1915). The Brazils were of Irish descent and Angela was proud of her ‘Celtic’ ancestry, but with her dark hair and eyes she resembled in appearance her half-Spanish mother. ...
Article
Brazil, Angela (1868–1947), children's writer
Hilary Clare
Article
Brenan, Edward FitzGerald [Gerald] (1894–1987), writer and Hispanic scholar
Frances Partridge
revised
Brenan, Edward FitzGerald [Gerald] (1894–1987), writer and Hispanic scholar, was born on 7 April 1894 at Sliema, Malta, the elder son (there were no daughters) of Hugh Brenan, subaltern in the Royal Irish Rifles, and his wife, Helen, daughter of Sir Ogilvie Graham...
Article
Entwistle, William James (1895–1952), Spanish scholar
P. E. L. R. Russell
revised
Entwistle, William James (1895–1952), Spanish scholar, was born on 7 December 1895 at Cheng Yang Kuan, the eldest of the four children of William Edmund Entwistle and his wife, Jessie Ann Buchan, both missionaries in China. Entwistle was taught by his father and at the ...
Article
Kelly, James Fitzmaurice- (1857–1923), historian of Spanish literature
W. J. Entwistle
revised by Donald Hawes
Kelly, James Fitzmaurice- (1857–1923), historian of Spanish literature, was born in Glasgow on 20 June 1857, the eldest son of Colonel Thomas Kelly, then of the 40th foot but formerly of the Egyptian police, and his wife, Catherine, née Fitzmaurice. As he was a Roman Catholic and three-parts Irish, he can be said to have inherited sociability, wit, and feelings of sympathy with ...
Article
Rivers, Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt- (1919–2001), social anthropologist and Hispanist
Jonathan Benthall
Rivers, Julian Alfred Lane Fox Pitt- (1919–2001), social anthropologist and Hispanist, was born on 16 March 1919 at 41 Hans Place, Chelsea, London, the second son of George Henry Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers (1890–1966), landowner and anthropologist, and his first wife, the Hon. Emily Rachel Forster...
Article
Sloman, Sir Albert Edward (1921–2012), Hispanic scholar and university administrator
Ann L. Mackenzie
Sloman, Sir Albert Edward (1921–2012), Hispanic scholar and university administrator, was born on 14 February 1921 at Canworthy, Warbstow, Launceston, Cornwall, the youngest child in the family of three sons and one daughter of Albert Sloman (1887–1969), farmer, and his wife, Lily Fanny, ...
