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Walter de la Mare
| Full Name: |
Walter
John
de la Mare |
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April 25, 1873
Charlton, Kent, England |
| Died: |
June 22, 1956
Twickenham, Middlesex, England |
| Occupation: |
Writer |
| Nationality: |
British |
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Biography
Walter John de la Mare OM CH was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. In 1921, his novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction, and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books.
De la Mare was born at 83, Maryon Road, Charlton, then in the county of Kent but now part of the Royal Borough of Greenwich. He was partly descended from a family of French Huguenot silk merchants through his father, James Edward de la Mare (1811-1877), a principal at the Bank of England; his mother was James's second wife, Lucy Sophia (1838-1920), daughter of a Scottish naval surgeon and author, Dr Colin Arrott Browning. He had two brothers, Francis Arthur Edward and James Herbert, and four sisters, Florence Mary, Constance Eliza, Ethel (who died in infancy) and Ada Mary. De la Mare preferred to be known as "Jack" to his family and friends, as he disliked the name Walter.
De la Mare was educated at St Paul's Cathedral School, then worked from 1890 to 1908 in the statistics department of the London office of Standard Oil. He left the company after Sir Henry Newbolt arranged for him to receive a Civil List pension so that he could concentrate on writing.
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