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Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011)  

Maker: Joan Leigh Fermor

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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor (1915–2011) by Joan Leigh Fermor, 1946 © Patrick Fermor Archive, Trustees of the National Library of Scotland

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Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011), special operations officer and author  

John Ure

Fermor, Sir Patrick Michael [Paddy] Leigh (1915–2011), special operations officer and author, was born on 11 February 1915 at 20 Endsleigh Gardens, Bloomsbury, London, the younger child and only son of Sir Lewis Leigh Fermor (1880–1954), geologist, and his first wife, Muriel Aileen (otherwise Eileen or Æileen), ...

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Lindsay, Michael Francis Morris, second Baron Lindsay of Birker (1909–1994), writer on China  

Ann Gold

Lindsay, Michael Francis Morris, second Baron Lindsay of Birker (1909–1994), writer on China, was born at 40 Mecklenburg Square, St Pancras, London, on 24 February 1909, the elder son and first of the three children of Alexander Dunlop Lindsay, first Baron Lindsay of Birker...

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Cover Morris, Jan (1926–2020)

Morris, Jan (1926–2020)  

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Jan Morris (1926–2020), by Arturo Di Stefano, 2004–2005

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Morris, Jan (1926–2020), journalist, historian, and travel writer  

Andrew Lycett

Morris, Jan (1926–2020), journalist, historian, and travel writer, was born James Humphrey Morris at 1 Herbert Terrace, Clevedon, Somerset, on 2 October 1926, the youngest of three sons of Walter Henry Morris (1896–1938), motor driver, and his wife Enid, née Payne...