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Julian Grenfell was born at 4 St James's Square, London, the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Baron Desborough, and Ethel Priscilla Fane, daughter of Julian Fane.. He was educated at Eton where he was good friends with Denys Finch Hatton, Edward Horner, and latterly with Patrick Shaw-Stewart.
With no surviving male heirs the barony became extinct after Grenfell's death. Ethel 'Ettie' Grenfell, née Fane, Lady Desborough (1867–1952) was the daughter of the Hon. Julian Fane, a diplomat and poet, the fifth and youngest son of John Fane, 11th Earl of Westmorland, and Lady Adine Eliza Anne Cowper, daughter of George Cowper, 6th Earl ...
The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892–1935 is a poetry anthology edited by W. B. Yeats and published in 1936 by Oxford University Press.A long introductory essay starts from the proposition that the poets included should be all the "good" ones (implicitly the field is Anglo-Irish poetry, though notably a few Indian poets are there) active since the death of Tennyson.
Julian Pascoe Francis St Leger Grenfell, 3rd Baron Grenfell, Baron Grenfell of Kilvey (born 23 May 1935 [2]), is a Labour hereditary peer, life peer, and former member of the House of Lords [3] known for his strong Europhile views.
Julian's elder sister Monica Margaret Grenfell had undertaken three months 'special training' in nursing at The London Hospital under Matron Eva Luckes just after the outbreak of war. [2] Ethel travelled to France to see her son who had a splinter in his brain. Julian took 13 days to die.
May 26 – Julian Grenfell, English war poet (killed in action, born 1888) [49] June 4 – George Calderon, English dramatist and translator (killed in action on Gallipoli campaign, born 1868) July 5 – Aurelio Tolentino, Filipino dramatist (born 1867) August 19 – Tevfik Fikret, Ottoman Turkish poet and journalist (diabetes, born 1867).
Robert Bertrand Sackville-West, 7th Baron Sackville DL (born 10 July 1958), is a British publisher, author and guardian of Knole in Kent, which has been a Sackville house since 1603 and is now owned by the National Trust.
Into Battle is a stage play written by Hugh Salmon, which received its premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in London in October 2021. [1] [2] [3] [4]The play tells the story of a bitter feud between the privileged Old Etonians at Balliol College, Oxford and a more socially aware group of non-Etonians during the run-up to the First World War.