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Hubert
Crackanthorpe
By
Jad Adams
The fiction writer who became known as Hubert Crackanthorpe was born Hubert Montague Cookson in London on 12 May 1870. He was the eldest of three sons of Montague Hughes Cookson, a Queen’s Counsel (the most senior type of independent lawyer) sometime counsel to the University of Oxford, and a writer on ...
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Olive
Custance
By
Sarah Parker
Olive Eleanor Custance was born on February 7, 1874, the eldest daughter of Colonel Frederic Hambledon Custance and Eleanor Constance Jolliffe. Her family were wealthy members of the landed gentry, descended from Sir Francis Bacon, and she grew up at their country seat, Weston Old Hall, Norfolk.
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