biography
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Newbolt, Sir Henry (John)
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| lived:
| (1862–1938)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Bilston, Staffordshire, C England, UK. He studied at Oxford, became a barrister, and published novels. He is best known, however, for his sea songs - Admirals All (1897), which contained ‘Drake's Drum’, The Island Race (1898), Songs of the Sea, and others. In World War 1 he was controller of telecommunications and an official war historian, and published The Naval History of the Great War (1920). |
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