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This is the first in a series of posts about the people who lived in a house called ‘The Cranes’. Though it was pulled down more than 120 years ago, it lends its name to four neighbouring streets in the northern part of Surbiton, close to the boundary with Kingston upon Thames: Cranes Park, Cranes…
I return, with the greatest of pleasure, to one of my favourite Twentieth Century authors. Henry Green was the nom de plume of Henry Vincent Yorke (1905-1973). He was born in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, youngest son of Vincent Woodhouse Yorke, a wealthy landowner, businessman and manufacturer, and the Hon. Maud Evelyn, née Wyndham, second daughter of…
Herman Wouk (1915-2019) was born in New York to Russian Jewish immigrant parents, originally from Minsk. Like many before them, Abraham Wouk and Esther, née Levine settled in the Bronx, where Abraham built from scratch a large and successful laundry business. Herman attended the selective Townsend Harris Hall Prep School, progressing to Columbia University. He…
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