Leo Walmsley
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Leo Walmsley was an English writer.
He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley, in what is now County West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire. He was the son of the painter Ulric Walmsley.
During World War I he served as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps in East Africa, was mentioned in dispatches four times and was awarded the Military Cross. After a plane crash he was sent home, and eventually pursued a literary career. He settled at Pont Pill near Polruan in Cornwall, where he became friends with the writer Daphne du Maurier.
He died in Fowey, Cornwall on 8 June 1966.
Many of his books are mainly autobiographical, the best known are his Bramblewick trilogy set in Robin Hood's Bay - Three Fevers, Phantom Lobster and Sally Lunn, the first of which was filmed as Turn of the Tide.
[edit] Bibliography
- 1914 - Guide to the Geology of Whitby and District — Horne (Whitby)
- 1919 - Fossils of the Whitby District — Horne
- 1920 - Flying and Sport in East Africa — Blackwood
- 1921 - The Silver Blimp — Nelson
- 1923 - The Lure of Thunder Island — Jenkins
- 1926 - The Green Rocket — Jenkins
- 1926 - Toro of the Little People — Hodder & Stoughton
- 1932 - Three Fevers — Cape
- 1933 - Phantom Lobster — Cape
- 1935 - Foreigners — Collins
- 1939 - Love in the Sun — Collins
- 1941 - Fishermen at War — Collins
- 1942 - British Ports and Harbours — Collins
- 1944 - So Many Loves (autobiography) — Collins
- 1944 - Sally Lunn (the play) — Collins
- 1948 - Master Mariner — Collins
- 1951 - Lancashire and Yorkshire — Collins
- 1952 - Invisible Cargo — Joseph
- 1954 - The Golden Waterwheel — Collins
- 1957 - The Happy Ending — Collins
- 1959 - Sound of the Sea — Collins
- 1963 - Paradise Creek — Collins
- 1965 - Angler's Moon — Hamilton
[edit] Biographies
- 1991 - The Honey Gatherers - Peter J. Woods
- 1995 - Autumn Gold - Stephanie Walmsley (his widow)
- 2001 - Shells and Bright Stones - Nona Stead (ed.)
