biography
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Walpole, Sir Hugh (Seymour)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1884–1941)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Auckland, New Zealand. He studied at Durham and Cambridge universities, became a teacher, then an author. His many novels were very popular during his lifetime, and include The Secret City (1919), The Cathedral (1922), and the four-volume family saga, The Herries Chronicle (1930–3). He was knighted in 1937. |
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