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- Birth nameHugh Seymour Walpole
- Hugh Walpole was born on March 13, 1884 in Auckland, New Zealand. He was a writer and actor, known for Kind Lady (1935), Kind Lady (1951) and Vanessa, Her Love Story (1935). He died on June 1, 1941 in Brackenburn, England, UK.
- Bachelor.
- He is interred at St. John's Churchyard in Keswick, Cumbria, England.
- He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 1937 King's Honours List for his services to Literature.
- He was rejected by the British army during World War I because of poor eyesight. He went to Russia with the Red Cross, and won a medal for rescuing a wounded soldier under fire.
- Popular and prolific English novelist and story writer, born in New Zealand and active primarily during the 1910's and 20's. He was noted for his skillful narrative and plausible characterisation. Appeared as the vicar in MGM's 1934 version of "David Copperfield".
- Don't play for safety. It's the most dangerous thing in the world.
- [on Maurice Hewlett] . . . it was as a poet that he made in his last years his passionate declarations of belief in the English peasantry as the only hope for England.
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