Royal Navy

Elizabeth, daughter of a Ceylon tea-planter, had served in the Wrens late in the Second World War, had a broken engagement, and was now secretary to an architect.JM writes rhapsodically of Elizabeth and...

EN was sent away from home each time her mother became pregnant, though her brothers were allowed to stay at home: this was said to be to protect her reputation. EN later wrote, A...

In June 1795 (the year after reading Godwin 's Political Justice) MR became involved in a case in which Irish tinkers, threatened with being pressed as vagrants into the British Navy , had resisted...

Her obituary described this book as the fruit of loving research into the decomposing records of the Vice-Admiralty Court which sat to condemn as prizes ships captured by the Royal Navy and by its auxiliary...

Joanne Rowling's father, Peter Rowling , was an apprentice engineer at the time of his marriage, having met his future wife while working with the Royal Navy . He later worked as an engineer for...

Don Smith was born in about 1924 and grew up in Newark, Nottinghamshire, where he came from a long line of psychics (he himself claimed to have woken up to see the ghost of...

MS (living alone while her husband was in the Navy ) gave birth to her only child, a daughter named Catherine Lindsay Stott , who later became a journalist like both her parents and maternal grandparents.

Rosemary's father, George Ernest Sutcliff , was a lieutenant-commander in the Royal Navy , who worked where he was posted (Malta and South Africa as well as around the English coast), so that the family...

His father, Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne , served in the Royal Navy .

Having fled from Paris, VT very reluctantly returned with her mother to safety in England from now Nazi -occupied France on a Royal Navy troop ship.

JT 's grandfather Rex Hodson became Rector of Minchinhampton in 1928 after service in the Royal Navy . He devoted great energy and enthusiasm to local religious life, and also loved horses and foxhunting. He...

Though most of the pieces take up the same themes as Immanence, the end of the volume contains several poems about the First World War. In The Naval Reserve (dated 4 August 1914 and...

Her father, George Davies , was an officer in the Royal Navy who became a Vice-Admiral. He died in November 1876.

With Adrian Stephen, Duncan Grant , Guy Ridley , and Anthony Buxton , she toured the premier battleship HMS Dreadnought impersonating the Emperor of Abyssinia and his entourage. Virginia was disguised as Prince Mendax (Latin...

The title-page quotes Le Sage , in French, avowing that he intended to depict people as they are, but not real individuals (a quotation that might work in reverse, encouraging readers to expect recognisable portraits)...