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A. P. Herbert, English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
Related Category: English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biographies
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A. P. Herbert (Sir Alan Patrick Herbert), 1890–1971, English author and member of Parliament. He was a regular contributor to the comic magazine Punch from 1910 until his death. Herbert served in Parliament from 1935 until 1950 as a representative for Oxford Univ. and was largely responsible for the bill (1937) liberalizing English divorce law. His numerous books include The House by the River (1921), The Water Gipsies (1930), and The Singing Swan (1968). He was knighted in 1945.
See his autobiography A. P. H.: His Life and Times (1970).
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