Boyle, Andrew, 1889-1956
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- FamilySearch, May 20, 2021:England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007 (William A. Boyle, died age 67; death registered Oct/Nov/Dec quarter 1956) England and Wales Birth Registration Index, 1837-2008 (William Andrew Boyle, birth registered Oct/Nov/Dec quarter 1889)
- Roget, P. Thesaurus, 1941:p. iii (Andrew Boyle)
- The times, 8 Dec., 1956:p. 8 (obituary: Mr. Andrew Boyle; author and bookseller; d. London, recently, at the age of 67; worked for Ernest Rhys in the early days of Everyman's Library; translated Spinoza's "Ethics"; after the war he was Bolivian representative on the League of Nations, but then drifted into the book trade; when the late Greville Worthington bought a Birmingham bookshop he took Boyle there with him; he removed from Birmingham to London about seven years ago; son of a Scots father and a Spanish mother, and owned a village in Andalucia)
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Wikipedia description:
Andrew Philip More Boyle (27 May 1919 – 22 April 1991) was a Scottish journalist and biographer. His biography of Brendan Bracken won the 1974 Whitbread Awards and his book The Climate of Treason exposed Anthony Blunt as the "Fourth Man" in the Cambridge Five Soviet spy ring. He was born in the Scottish city of Dundee, and was educated at Blairs College in Aberdeen and the University of Paris. During the Second World War he was part of Britain's military intelligence in the Far East. After the war he joined the BBC as a radio scriptwriter and producer. In 1965 he was the founding editor of the BBC Radio 4 programme The World At One which "gained a reputation as one of the best informed news programs and won an audience of four million". He also wrote the definitive biographies of Lord Trenchard, the father of the Royal Air Force and Erskine Childers, Irish Nationalist and author.
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