biography
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Leslie, Sir Shane
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originally John Randolph Leslie
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| lived:
| (1885–1971)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Glaslough, Co Monaghan, NE Ireland. He studied at Paris and Cambridge universities, visited Russia in 1907, and became friendly with Tolstoy. He became a Roman Catholic in 1908, and unsuccessfully contested Londonderry in 1910. He published poems of some quality, and produced a much praised analysis of the pre-war generation in The End of a Chapter (1916). He is also known for his novels, clerical biographies, memoirs, and supernatural short stories. He also investigated the relationship between George IV and Mrs Fitzherbert, from whom he was descended. He succeeded to the baronetcy in 1944. |
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