Leo Walmsley

Leo Walmsley

Leo Walmsley was an English writer.

He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley, in what is now the City of Bradford in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel. 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.

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

Biographies

*1991 - "The Honey Gatherers" - Peter J. Woods
*1995 - "Autumn Gold" - Stephanie Walmsley (his widow)
*2001 - "Shells and Bright Stones" - Nona Stead (ed.)

External links

* [http://www.walmsleysoc.org The Walmsley Society]


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