LC control no. | n 86041860 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
LC classification | PR5779.W19 |
Personal name heading | Westall, William, 1835-1903 |
Variant(s) | Westall, William Bury, 1834-1903 |
Found in | His Roy of Roy's Court, 189-?: t.p. (William Westall) The old factory, 2000: t.p. (William Bury Westall (1834-1903)) prelim. (born Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire in 1834, son of a cotton mill owner. Moved to Geneva in 1874, as foreign correpondent for "The Times" and editor of "Swiss Times". Became British Consul in Russia and war correspondent in Crimean and Armenian Civil Wars. Translator of Russian literature and writer of novels drawing on his experiences in Lancashire, the continent and further afield. Died Heathfield, Sussex on 9 Sept. 1903) |