Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879–1957), railway engineer and writer of detective stories, was born at 26 Waterloo Road, Dublin, on 1 June 1879, the son of Freeman Wills Crofts, a surgeon-lieutenant in the Army Medical Service, who died before his son's birth, and his wife, ...
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Crofts, Freeman Wills (1879–1957), railway engineer and writer of detective stories
Robin Woolven
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Norway, Nevil Shute [pseud. Nevil Shute] (1899–1960), novelist and aeronautical engineer
A. P. Ryan
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Norway, Nevil Shute [pseud. Nevil Shute] (1899–1960), novelist and aeronautical engineer, was born in Ealing, London, on 17 January 1899, the younger son of Arthur Hamilton Norway CB (1859–1938), who became an assistant secretary at the General Post Office and wrote erudite travel books, and his wife, ...
