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It is 145 years today since Freeman Wills Crofts was born.
Freeman Wills Crofts was born in Dublin, Ireland, as the son of a British army surgeon who died when Croft was still young. Because his mother then married an archdeacon, Croft was brought up in a deeply religious home. He studied engineering, and at the age of seventeen he became an apprentice at the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway where he stayed until 1929 when he left for health...
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Gardner, John (b. 1926)
1926 - 2007
John Edmund Gardner was a British novelist. He was born in the village of Seaton Delaval in Northumberland as the son of a...
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Francis, Dick
1920 - 2010
The British jockey and author Richard Stanley "Dick" Francis is famous worldwide both as a champion jockey – at one time j...
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Allen, Grant
1848 - 1899
Charles Grant Blairfindie Allen was a British philosopher, natural scientist and journalist. His support for evolutionary...
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Kepler, Lars
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Lars Kepler is the alias that the two writers and married couple Alexander Ahndoril and Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril use when...
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