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