Fenton [née Knox; other married name Campbell], Elizabeth (1804–1875), diarist and travel writer, was the daughter of the Revd John Russel Knox, rector of Lifford, co. Donegal, and afterwards of Innismagrath, co. Leitrim, Ireland. In 1826 she married Captain Niel Campbell of the ...
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Fenton [née Knox; other married name Campbell], Elizabeth (1804–1875), diarist and travel writer
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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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Hahn, Emily [Mickey] (1905–1997), author and traveller
Ken Cuthbertson
Hahn, Emily [Mickey] (1905–1997), author and traveller, was born at 4858 Fountain Avenue, St Louis, Missouri, on 14 January 1905, the fifth of the six children of Isaac Newton Hahn (1856–1934), hardware salesman, and his wife, Hannah, née Schoen (1866–1957). Her parents, who were of German-Jewish heritage and liberal inclinations, encouraged their children to think for themselves; young ...
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Innes [née Robertson], Emily Anne (1843–1927), author
J. M. Gullick
Innes [née Robertson], Emily Anne (1843–1927), author, was born on 5 March 1843 in Boxley, Kent, the third of the six children of James Craigie Robertson (1813–1882), curate of Boxley, and his wife, Julia Maria, née Stevenson (d. c.1884). In 1859 her father, a distinguished theologian and church historian, became a canon and the librarian of ...
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Platter, Thomas (1574–1628), physician and traveller
Vivienne Larminie
Platter, Thomas (1574–1628), physician and traveller, was born on 24 July 1574 in the protestant city of Basel, Switzerland, the elder son among six children of Thomas Platter (1499–1582), schoolmaster, and his second wife, Hester Gross or Grossmann (b. 1547). Thomas the elder...
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Psalmanazar, George (1679–1763), impostor and author
Robert DeMaria, jun.
Psalmanazar, George (1679–1763), impostor and author, was born in southern France under a name that is now unknown and to parents whose names, like that of his place of birth, he does not mention in his Memoirs (published posthumously in 1764), the only source of information about his early life. For an important and lengthy period of his life he claimed to be a native of ...
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