Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In the period following Heywood Hill's retirement, the shop was managed by Handasyde Buchanan, a notable contributor to books on natural history who had joined the shop in 1945. [6] John Saumarez Smith , who had joined the staff straight from Cambridge in 1965, took up the reins as manager in 1974 following Buchanan's retirement, a position he ...
He was born in Chelsea, London on 29 July 1906, the son of Major George Bernard Hill OBE (1874-1961), a stockbroker, and Frances Grace Johnstone, daughter of John Heywood Johnstone MP of Bignor Park, Sussex, and they lived at 37 Draycott Place, Chelsea and Great Orchard, Bignor, Pulborough, Sussex. [1] [2] He had a sister Sheila Grace Hill. [2]
The Heywood Hill Literary Prize was awarded yearly to a writer, editor, reviewer, collector or publisher for a lifelong contribution to the enjoyment of books. Andrew Cavendish, 11th Duke of Devonshire sponsored the award, which included a prize worth £15,000, until his death in 2004.
Commemorative plaque at the entrance to the Heywood Hill bookshop, Curzon Street. In April 1940, Mitford suffered her second miscarriage. Shortly afterward, Rodd, who had been commissioned into the Welsh Guards, departed overseas. [86] Alone in London, Mitford moved to the family's Rutland Gate house where she remained during the London Blitz ...
What links here; Upload file; Special pages; Printable version; Page information; Get shortened URL
Haywood (disambiguation) Heywoodia, a genus of plants; Heywood Hill Literary Prize; Heywood Manuscript, a collection of handwritten copies of letters and poems of the Heywood family; Levi Heywood Memorial Library Building, in Gardner, Massachusetts, U.S. R v Heywood, a case in the Canadian Supreme Court
Edward Gathorne-Hardy and Robert Gathorne-Hardy were his uncles, and his aunt was Lady Anne Hill, wife of George Heywood Hill, who together founded the Heywood Hill bookshop in Mayfair. [6] [7] His cousin, born just a month after him, was the zoologist Gathorne Gathorne-Hardy, 5th Earl of Cranbrook, who attended Cambridge at the same time as he ...
Anne Heywood (born Violet Joan Pretty; 11 December 1931 – 27 October 2023) was a British film actress, who is best known for her Golden Globe-nominated performance in the 1967 film version of D.H. Lawrence's The Fox.