Lord David Cecil: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Lord Edward Christian David Gascoyne Cecil
Born	April 9, 1902 • London • England
Died	January 1, 1986 (aged 83) • Cranborne Chase • England
Notable Works	“Library Looking-glass”

Samuel Johnson

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Virginia Woolf

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C.S. Lewis

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Algernon Charles Swinburne

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Sir Leslie Stephen

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John Wain

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Sir Edmund Gosse

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Richard Aldington

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Austin Dobson

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John Gibson Lockhart

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Maurice Baring

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Saint John Ervine

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Edmund Clarence Stedman

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John Morley, Viscount Morley

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Mary Novello Clarke

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Winston Churchill

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D.H. Lawrence

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