Associates of King's College - Alan Hopes, Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Ambrose Weekes, Andrew Proud, Associateship of King's College, Chr (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Alan Hopes, Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew, Ambrose Weekes, Andrew Proud, Associateship of King's College, Christopher Hill (bishop), Colin Cramphorn, David Atkinson (bishop), David Bonser, David Jennings (bishop), David Smith (bishop), Dominic Walker (bishop), E. W. Bullinger, Edward Holland (bishop), Eric James, Frances Kirkham, Frederick Cogman, Frederick Spurrell, Geoffrey Paul, Graeme Knowles, Harold Beardmore, Jack Nicholls, James Lowther, 1st Viscount Ullswater, John Broadhurst, John Hudson (bishop), John Welsh (bishop), Keith Newton (prelate), Kenneth Oram, Laurie Green, Mark Sowerby, Martin Wallace (bishop), Martyn Jarrett, Michael Morpurgo, Noel Chamberlain, Peter Coleman (bishop), Peter Delaney, Peter Hatendi, Peter Hullah, Richard Garrard, Richard Lewis (bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich), Ronald Sargison, Shaw Clifton, Stephen Oliver (bishop), Thomas Hollingdale, Tim Ellis (bishop), Trevor Beeson, Victor Stock, William Clark (inventor), William Henry Griffith Thomas. Excerpt: Michael Morpurgo, OBE, FKC, AKC (born 5 October 1943) is an English author, poet, playwright and librettist, best known for his work in children's literature. He was the third Children's Laureate. Morpurgo's real father is actor Tony Van Bridge. His mother, who had been an actress, met Jack Morpurgo while Bridge was away during World War II. Morpurgo did not find out who his real father was until he was 19, when watching Great Expectations with his mother, in which Bridge appears. Morpurgo has an older brother, Pieter. Michael Morpurgo was educated at schools in central London, Devon, Sussex and Kent; his unhappy experiences at boarding school would inform his novel The Butterfly Lion, one of his more famous works. He attended the independent prep school Mount House in Devon until he was 13. He then went to The King's School, an independent school in Canterbury. He later trained for the British Army at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He then took up a teaching job. He graduated with a 3rd class degree in English and French from King's College London. Morpurgo's first job was as a primary school teacher, in Kent. In his late twenties, while he was teaching, he discovered his talent for storytelling, of which he later said "I could see there was magic in it for them, and realized there was magic in it for me." His writing career was inspired by Ted Hughes' Poetry in the Making, Paul Gallico's The Snow Goose and Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea. Poets Sean Rafferty and Ted Hughes were influential in his career, with Hughes becoming a friend, mentor and neighbour. In 2009, he donated the short story "Look At Me, I Need a Smile" to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, four collections of UK stories written by 38 authors. Morpurgo's story was published in the "Water" collection. Morpurgo's work is noted for its "magical storytelling," for recurring themes such as the triumph of an outsider or survival, for characters' relationships with nature, and for vivid settings such a