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Sir Henry Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet
Major (UK), Major Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet (10 September 1887 – 30 May 1969), also known by his pen name Henry Wade, was Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire from 1954 to 1961. He was also one of the leading authors during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. Life Aubrey-Fletcher was the only son and second child of Sir Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 5th Baronet and Emily Harriet Wade (married 18 April 1882 St Anne, Soho, London). His father had already had another son by a previous marriage, but the child died in infancy. He was educated at Eton College and New College, Oxford. He fought in both the First World War and Second World War with the Grenadier Guards, being awarded the Distinguished Service Order and French ''Croix de guerre 1914–1918 (France), Croix de guerre'' in 1917. He was a member of Buckinghamshire County Council and appointed High Sheriff of Buckinghamshire in 1925. He played Minor counties of English and Welsh cricket, Minor counties cr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Grenadier Guards
The Grenadier Guards (GREN GDS) is the most senior infantry regiment of the British Army, being at the top of the Infantry Order of Precedence. It can trace its lineage back to 1656 when Lord Wentworth's Regiment was raised in Bruges to protect the exiled Charles II of England, Charles II. In 1665, this regiment was combined with John Russell's Regiment of Guards to form the current regiment, known as the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards. Since then, the regiment has filled both a ceremonial and protective role as well as an operational one. In 1900, the regiment provided a Cadre (military), cadre of personnel to form the Irish Guards; in 1915 it also provided the basis of the Welsh Guards upon their formation. The regiment's early history saw it take part in numerous conflicts including the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, the Seven Years' War, and the Napoleonic Wars; at the end of this period the regiment was granted the "Grenadier" designation by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Soon To Die
Too or TOO may refer to: * Target of opportunity, a concept in targeting * Threshold of originality, a concept in copyright law * ''Too'' (Fantastic Plastic Machine album), the fourth studio album by Fantastic Plastic Machine * ''Too'' (Fidlar album), the second studio album by American skate punk band Fidlar * ''Too'' (Kingdom Come album), the seventh album by the band Kingdom Come * ''Too'' (Madita album), the second solo album by Matida * ''Too'' (S.O.S. Band album), the second album by the band The S.O.S. Band * To1, a South Korean boy band, formerly known as TOO People with the surname Too * David Kimutai Too (1968–2008), a Kenyan politician and National Assembly member for the Orange Democratic Movement * Naomi Too, Kenyan volleyball player * Too Too (born 1990), a Burmese fighter See also * To * Toon (other) * Toos (other) * Tootoo, an Inuit surname * TU (other) * Two (other) 2 is a number, numeral, and glyph. 2, two or II m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lonely Magdalen
''Lonely Magdalen'' is a 1940 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. It was the fifth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction. The book focuses more closely on police procedural than the traditional puzzle format.Evans p.34 There was a thirteen-year gap between this and the next entry in the series ''Too Soon to Die''. Synopsis A woman is found strangled on a corner of London's Hampstead Heath, who proves to be a prostitute from Kentish Town Kentish Town is an area of northwest London, England, in the London Borough of Camden, immediately north of Camden Town, close to Hampstead Heath. Kentish Town likely derives its name from Ken-ditch or Caen-ditch, meaning the "bed of a waterw .... The investigations of Inspector Poole, however, reveal that she had once been from a respectable background. He deduces the culprit is like to be drawn from one her clients. References Bi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bury Him Darkly
''Bury Him Darkly'' is a 1936 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. It was the fourth in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole. Along with the following Poole novel, ''Lonely Magdalen'', it marked a shift towards more realistic police procedurals that has been described as pioneering.Evans p.34 Superintendent Fraser, who appeared in Wade's fist novel '' The Verdict of You All'', also appears as one of the characters. Synopsis A robbery at a jewellers in Bond Street Bond Street in the West End of London links Piccadilly in the south to Oxford Street in the north. Since the 18th century the street has housed many prestigious and upmarket fashion retailers. The southern section is Old Bond Street and the l ... goes wrong, leaving a nightwatchman dead. Police follow up various lines of inquiry. References Bibliography * Herbert, Rosemary. ''Whodunit?: A Who's Who in Crime & Mystery Writing''. Oxford University Press, 2003. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constable Guard Thyself
''Constable Guard Thyself'' is a 1934 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. It was the third in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Chief Inspector Poole, although it was preceded by the 1933 short story collection ''Policeman's Lot'' in which seven of the twelve stories had featured Poole. After his more experimental novel '' Mist on the Saltings'' Wade returned to the traditional detective model.Magill p.1668 Synopsis When the Chief Constable of the rural county of Brodshire is found shot to death in his office, his acting replacement reluctantly calls in the assistance of Scotland Yard Scotland Yard (officially New Scotland Yard) is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police, the territorial police force responsible for policing Greater London's London boroughs, 32 boroughs. Its name derives from the location of the original .... Inspector Poole arrives to head the investigation in the face of hostility from the local police, a numbe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Friendly Drop
''No Friendly Drop'' is a 1931 mystery detective novel by the British writer Henry Wade. It was the second in a series of seven novels featuring the character of Inspector Poole, published during the Golden Age of Detective Fiction.Herbert p.205 It was released in the United States the following year by Brewer and Warren where it received positive reviews in the ''New York Herald Tribune'' and the ''New York Evening Post'', with the latter describing it as "A superior detective story, depending more upon intrinsic interest in a logical plot than upon excitement and goriness for its hold on the reader". Synopsis When Lord Henry Grayle is found dead in bed his country house it is at first assumed he committed suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills. However, a more detailed examination reveals traces of scopolamine in his body creating a fatal combination of the two drugs. Everyone who knew him claimed he was well-liked, so who could the poisoner be? Called in to invest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Duke Of York's Steps
''The'' is a grammatical article in English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with nouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of the archaic pronoun ''thee' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Aubrey-Fletcher
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 7th Baronet (22 August 1912 – 19 June 1992) was a British baronet, who played first-class cricket for Oxford and was a British Army soldier. Born in Kensington, Aubrey-Fletcher was the eldest son of Sir Henry Lancelot Aubrey-Fletcher, 6th Baronet and his wife Mary Augusta Chilton. He was educated at Eton College and at New College, Oxford. While at Oxford in 1933 he played cricket for the university team. In 1937 he was accepted at Inner Temple entitled to practice as Barrister-at-Law. He played Minor counties cricket between 1931 and 1948 for Buckinghamshire. In 1939 he married Diana Mary Fynvola Egerton (the great-granddaughter of the second Baron Harlech) and they had two children: *Susan Mary Fynvola Aubrey-Fletcher (1940–1976), who was married, without issue, to Hon. Richard Stanley, brother and heir presumptive of the Earl of Derby * Henry Egerton Aubrey-Fletcher, born 1945 During the Second World War he fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Detection Club
The Detection Club was formed in 1930 by a group of British mystery writers, including Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ronald Knox, Freeman Wills Crofts, Arthur Morrison, Hugh Walpole, John Rhode, Jessie Louisa Rickard, Baroness Orczy, R. Austin Freeman, G. D. H. Cole, Margaret Cole, E. C. Bentley, Henry Wade, Constance Lindsay Taylor and H. C. Bailey. Anthony Berkeley Cox was instrumental in setting up the club, and the first president was G. K. Chesterton. There is a fanciful initiation ritual with an oath written by Sayers, and the club holds regular dinner meetings in London. Guidelines In addition to meeting for dinners and helping each other with technical aspects in their individual writings, the members of the club agreed to adhere to Knox's Commandments in their writing to give the reader a fair chance at guessing the guilty party. These fair-play "rules" were summarised by one of the members, Ronald Knox, in an introduction to an anthology of detecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club
Buckinghamshire County Cricket Club is one of twenty minor county clubs within the domestic cricket structure of England and Wales. It represents the historic county of Buckinghamshire. The team is currently a member of the Minor Counties Championship Eastern Division and plays in the MCCA Knockout Trophy. Buckinghamshire played List A matches occasionally from 1965 until 2005 but is not classified as a List A team ''per se''. The club has its administrative headquarters at Little Chalfont and plays its matches around the county at various locations including at Wormsley on the Getty Estate. Until 1979 it played regularly at Ascott Park, the home of the Rothschild family which was prominent in the club's foundation. Honours * Minor Counties Championship (10) - 1922, 1923, 1925, 1932, 1938, 1952, 1969, 1987, 2009, 2023; shared (1) - 1899 * MCCA Knockout Trophy (1) - 1990 Earliest cricket A match in October 1730 on Datchet Heath (now known as Datchet Common), outside the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minor Counties Of English And Welsh Cricket
The National Counties, known as the Minor Counties before 2020, are the cricketing counties of England and Wales that do not have first-class status. The game is administered by the National Counties Cricket Association (NCCA), which comes under the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB). There are currently twenty teams in National Counties cricket: nineteen representing historic counties of England, plus the Wales National County Cricket Club. Of the 39 historic counties of England, 17 have a first-class county cricket team (the 18th first-class county is Glamorgan in Wales) and 19 participate in the National Counties championship. Since 2021, Cumberland and Westmorland have been represented by Cumbria in the National Counties championship, while the remaining two historic counties, Huntingdonshire and Rutland, have associations with other counties (Huntingdonshire with Cambridgeshire and Rutland with Leicestershire). Despite this, Huntingdonshire has its own Cricket Boar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
