Herbert, Alan Patrick

Entry type: Person

Occupation

Politician, Writer, Writer of Inscription
Gender

Male
Birth Date

24th September 1890
Death Date

11th November 1971

Copy specific notes

Alan Patrick (A.P.) Herbert was born in Surrey in 1890. He came to prominence as a writer with his novel The Secret Battle, the story of a soldier at Gallipoli. He went on to become a writer for Punch and wrote a series of successful musical plays and comedies. He died in 1971.

Source

Pound, Reginald. ‘Herbert, Sir Alan Patrick (1890-1971)’, rev. Katherine Mullin. In Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, edited by Lawrence Goldman, 2010. Accessed 22 March 2013. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/31222.

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