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Published: 2013-09
Total Pages: 44
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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: Castles in Surrey, East Surrey Regiment officers, East Surrey Regiment soldiers, Frederick George Jackson, J. R. Ackerley, George Rowland Patrick Roupell, Jake Saunders, Edwin Flavell, William Alfred Dimoline, Charles Pearson, John King, Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet, Patrick Ferguson, Surrey Yeomanry, Eric Charles Twelves Wilson, Hector Munro, 8th of Novar, R. C. Sherriff, Francis Suttill, Guildford Castle, Lord Alwyne Compton, Walter Hamilton, James Stuart, George Hanger, 4th Baron Coleraine, Arthur Henry Seton Hart-Synnot, Rupert de la Bere, Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald of Slate, John Howard, 15th Earl of Suffolk, Harry Cator, Reigate Castle, Edward Dwyer, Queen's Royal Surrey Regiment, Christopher Carleton, Farnham Castle, Arthur Dowler, John Metcalfe, Francis Napier, 8th Lord Napier, Arthur Fleming-Sandes, Benjamin Handley Geary, Sir William Houston, 1st Baronet, Richard Adams, Sandy Turnbull, Albert Edward Curtis, Sir George Hewett, 1st Baronet, Frederick Youens, William Hargrave, Betchworth Castle, Francis Beresford, Edward Foster, John McNamara, Frederick Arnold, Joseph Greenwood, Cuthbert James, Frederick Willis, Thomas Evans, Abinger Castle, Drummond Allison, Bramshott Camp, 70th Regiment of Foot, Bletchingley Castle, Witley Camp. Excerpt: J. R. Ackerley (4 November 1896 - 4 June 1967; his full registered name was Joe Ackerley; Randolph was added later as a tribute to an uncle) was arts editor of The Listener, the weekly magazine of the BBC. He was also openly gay, a rarity in his time. Ackerley's memoir My Father and Myself, begins: "I was born in 1896 and my parents were married in 1919." His father, Roger Ackerley, was a fruit merchant, known as the "Banana King" of London. Roger had been previously married to an actress named Louise Burckhardt who died young and childless, probably of...