The Time by the Sea (17 page)

J. R. ACKERLEY
1896–1967

Writer and editor.

(
SIR
)
MALCOLM ARNOLD
1921–2006

Composer, whose works included symphonies and music for brass bands.

JOHN BENSUSAN-BUTT
1911–1997

Artist and historian. Lived in the Minories, Colchester.

ELIZABETH BOWEN
(
CBE
) 1899–1973

Irish novelist and short-story writer loosely
associated
with the Bloomsbury Group.

(
LORD
)
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
(
OF ALDEBURGH, OM, CH
) 1913–1976

Composer, conductor and pianist. Co-founder of the Aldeburgh Festival. Partner of Peter Pears.

EDWARD CLODD
1840–1930

Banker, writer and anthropologist with a large circle of scientific and literary friends.

GEORGE CRABBE
1754–1832

Clergyman, poet (
The Borough
) and surgeon.

ERIC CROZIER
1914–1994

Theatre director and opera librettist associated with Benjamin Britten, with whom he co-founded
the Aldeburgh Festival. Married mezzo-soprano Nancy Evans
OBE
in 1941.

EDWARD FITZGERALD
1809–1883

Poet and writer. Translator of the
Rubáiyát
.

E. M.
(
EDWARD MORGAN
)
FORSTER
1879–1970

Writer and librettist.

DAVID GASCOYNE
1916–2001

Surrealist poet.

(
SIR
)
PETER HALL
(
CBE
) 1930–

Theatre and film director. Directed
Akenfield
, based on Ronald Blythe’s
Portrait of an English Village
.

MAGGI HAMBLING
1945–

Painter and sculptor.

JAMES HAMILTON-PATERSON
1941–

Writer. Author of
Gerontius
, an imagined reconstruction of Sir Edward Elgar’s journey along the Amazon in 1923.

GUSTAV HOLST
1874–1934

Composer.

IMOGEN HOLST
1907–1984

Composer, conductor, musicologist and encourager of amateur musicians. A close friend of Benjamin Britten and the daughter of Gustav Holst.

KURT HUTTON
1893–1960.

Pioneering German-born photographer.

M.R.
(
MONTAGUE RHODES
)
JAMES
1862–1936

Scholar of medieval history and writer of ghost stories.

JOHN LEHMANN
1907–1987

Poet and literary editor, founder of
New Writing
and the
London Magazine
.

ARTHUR LETT-HAINES
1894–1978

Surrealist sculptor and painter. With Cedric Morris established the East Anglian School of Painting, first at Dedham and later at Benton End, Hadleigh.

ALUN LEWIS
1915–1944

Welsh poet, known particularly for his war poetry.

HEPHZIBAH MENUHIN
1920–1981

American-Australian pianist, writer and human-rights campaigner.

(
SIR
)
CEDRIC MORRIS
1889–1982

Welsh painter and plantsman. See also Arthur Lett-Haines, above.

JOHN NASH
(
CBE RA
) 1893–1977

Artist and engraver. Lived with his wife Christine at Bottengoms, Wormingford.

CONRAD NOEL
1869–1942

Priest of the Church of England, Vicar of Thaxted.

Founding member of the British Socialist Party and a friend of Gustav Holst.

GLENCAIRN STUART OGILVIE

Scottish writer, barrister and eccentric architect.

MERVYN PEAKE
1911–1968

Writer, artist, illustrator and poet.

(
SIR
)
PETER PEARS
(
CBE
) 1910–1986

Tenor. Partner of Benjamin Britten, with whom
he co-founded the Aldeburgh Festival and established a long-standing recital partnership. Created many roles in Britten’s operas, including Peter Grimes and Captain Vere (
Billy Budd
).

WILLIAM PLOMER
1903–1973

South African and British writer and literary editor.

In later years was to write librettos for Britten.

MARY POTTER
1900–1981

Artist and close friend of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears. Lived at the Red House in Aldeburgh, before exchanging Aldeburgh houses with Britten and Pears.

REX PYKE
1940–

Film editor and producer of drama and documentary.

VIKRAM SETH
1952–

Indian novelist and poet.

MARTIN SHAW
(
OBE FRCM
) 1875–1958

Prolific composer, conductor and producer.

PEGGY SOMERVILLE
1918–1975

Child prodigy and Impressionist painter.

SYLVIA TOWNSEND WARNER
1893–1978

Novelist, poet and translator.

CHRISTINE WESTON
1905–1989

British Indian writer, author of
Indigo
.