Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Personnel of World War I - Rupert Brooke, A. J. Cronin, Thomas Ralph Merton, Robin Hoare, Ernest Brooks (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 28. Chapters: Rupert Brooke, A. J. Cronin, Thomas Ralph Merton, Robin Hoare, Ernest Brooks, Arthur Bagot, George Prowse, Hamilton Harty, James Arthur Dawes, Robert Venables Vernon Harcourt, Gerald Ashburner France, Sir Frank Newnes, 2nd Baronet, Edward Atkinson, Alfred Brotherston Emden, William John Gruffydd, Cooper Rawson, D. M. S. Watson, R. P. Keigwin, William Cozens-Hardy, 2nd Baron Cozens-Hardy, John Robert Osborn, Arthur Borton, Arthur Walderne St. Clair Tisdall, Herbert Warrington Smyth, Percy Thompson Dean, Sir Malcolm Fraser, 1st Baronet, John Grigson, Geoffrey Drummond, Guy Standing, David Monteath, David King Murray, Roland Richard Louis Bourke, Harry Lawrence Bradfer-Lawrence, Wilfrid Vernon, Charles Henry Cowley, John Blake-Reed, Anthony Otter, Francis Birch. Excerpt: Archibald Joseph Cronin (19 July 1896-6 January 1981) was a Scottish physician and novelist. His best-known works are Hatter's Castle, The Stars Look Down, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom and The Green Years, all of which were adapted to film. He also created the Dr. Finlay character, the hero of a series of stories that served as the basis for the popular BBC television and radio series entitled Dr. Finlay's Casebook. Rosebank Cottage, Cronin's birthplaceCronin was born at Rosebank Cottage in Cardross, Dunbartonshire, the only child of a Protestant mother, Jessie Cronin (nee Montgomerie), and a Catholic father of Northern Irish extraction, Patrick Cronin, and would later write of young men from similarly mixed backgrounds. His paternal grandparents were the proprietors of a public house in Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire. His maternal grandfather, Archibald Montgomerie, was a hatter who owned a shop in Dumbarton. After their marriage, Cronin's parents moved to Helensburgh, where he attended Grant Street School. When he was seven years old, his fa...