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The crooked man is reputed to be the Scottish General Sir Alexander Leslie, who signed a covenant securing religious and political freedom for Scotland. The "crooked stile " in the poem was the alliance between the parliaments of England and Scotland or the border between the two, depending on the source.
Richard Appleton. Richard Appleton (17 January 1932 – 27 April 2005) was an Australian poet, raconteur and editor who became editor-in-chief of the Australian Encyclopaedia and, in 1987, was co-editor with Alex Galloway of the posthumous Lex Banning poetry collection There Was a Crooked Man.
Arthur Alexander Banning (1921–1965) was an Australian lyric poet. Disabled from birth by cerebral palsy, he was unable to speak clearly or to write with a pen."Yet he overcame his handicap to produce poems which were often hauntingly beautiful and frequently ironic, and gave to other, younger poets a strong sense of the importance and value of their calling". [1]
There Was a Crooked Man may also refer to: "There Was A Crooked Man", a 1950 episode of Westinghouse Studio One; There Was a Crooked Man, featuring Norman Wisdom; There Was a Crooked Man... a western film starring Kirk Douglas and Henry Fonda; There was a Crooked Man: the Poems of Lex Banning, a 1984 collection by Lex Banning
"The Adventure of the Crooked Man", one of the 56 Sherlock Holmes short stories written by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, is one of 12 stories in the cycle collected as The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. It was first published in The Strand Magazine in the United Kingdom in July 1893, and in Harper's Weekly in the United States on 8 July 1893.
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The Crooked House, Lavenham. The best-known crooked house is 'The Crooked House' at 7 High Street. [39] Thought to be the inspiration for the old English nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man", [40] The Crooked House was built in 1395 as part of a medieval Hall House. [41] It has been Grade II listed since 1958 as part of 7–9 High Street.