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Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter (29 April 1946 – 4 January 2005) was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. He is known especially for his biographies of J. R. R. Tolkien and other members of the literary society the Inklings .
According to Humphrey Carpenter, the circumstances of Edith's birth were frequently the subject of neighbourhood gossip. [1] Frances Bratt died when her daughter was 14 and Edith was sent to the Dresden House boarding school in Evesham. The school was run by the Watts sisters, who had studied music in Dresden. Although the school had a very ...
The first edition of Companion, by the husband-and-wife team of Humphrey Carpenter and Mari Prichard, [2] was published by Oxford University Press in 1984. [3] Iona and Peter Opie originally intended to write the Companion but did not complete it. [4] Although they consulted with others, Carpenter and Prichard wrote each entry themselves. [5]
Humphrey is both a masculine given name and a surname. ... Humphrey Carpenter (1946–2005), ... (1912–1998), U.S. senator from Minnesota and wife of Hubert Humphrey;
The result was that Carpenter and Christopher Tolkien cut it down by some 50,000 words, now restored. 154 letters appear in the 2023 edition for the first time, barring scholarly mentions and excerpts in The J. R. R. Tolkien Companion and Guide; another 45 letters have been revised, usually extended. [17]
John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on 3 January 1892 in Bloemfontein in the Orange Free State (later annexed by the British Empire; now Free State Province in the Republic of South Africa), to Arthur Reuel Tolkien (1857–1896), an English bank manager, and his wife Mabel, née Suffield (1870–1904). The couple had left England when Arthur was ...
Upon his wife's election as President of the United States, Henry becomes the First Gentleman of the United States. He is portrayed by Tim Daly. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Henry is the son of Patrick McCord (Tom Skerritt), a steel worker, and an unnamed mother. He has three siblings: Maureen, Shane, and Erin.
Great Lives is a BBC Radio 4 biography series, produced in Bristol.It has been presented by Joan Bakewell, Humphrey Carpenter, Francine Stock and currently (since April 2006) Matthew Parris.