• Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 – 9 April 1964) was a British actor, theatre director and writer. He is known mainly for his popular...
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    endear him to the monied classes whom he had previously entertained. Hesketh Pearson, introducing a collection of Wilde's essays in 1950, remarked how The...
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    Adrian and Denis grudgingly allowed Hesketh Pearson to write Conan Doyle: His Life and Art (Methuen, 1943). But Pearson's book offended Adrian and Denis by...
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    Hesketh Vernon Prichard, later Hesketh-Prichard DSO MC FRGS FZS (17 November 1876 — 14 June 1922) was an English cricketer, explorer, adventurer, writer...
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    enthusiasts". Allan Aynesworth, who played Algernon Moncrieff, recalled to Hesketh Pearson that "In my fifty-three years of acting, I never remember a greater...
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    of the complete adventures. When searching through Doyle's papers, Hesketh Pearson, a biographer of his, came across a plan for an unwritten story. As...
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    p 1008 "No. 23446". The London Gazette. 1 December 1868. p. 6401. Hesketh Pearson Dizzy- the life and personality of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield...
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    Charles Dickens, London: The Reprint Society, first published 1945 Hesketh Pearson (1949), Dickens, London: Methuen Jack Lindsay (1950), Charles Dickens...
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    Pearson, 1st Baronet, GBE (24 February 1866 – 9 December 1921), was a British newspaper magnate and publisher, who founded the Daily Express. Pearson...
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