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Also Known As Allen Lane Williams
Born September 21, 1902 • Bristol • England
Died July 7, 1970 (aged 67) • England
Founder Penguin Books, Ltd.
John Walter, II
English journalist
John Walter, I
English publisher
Jonathan Cape
British publisher
Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet
British publisher
Edward Boyle
British politician
William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
William Morris
British artist and author
William Byrd
William Byrd
English composer
William Caxton
William Caxton
English printer, translator, and publisher
Thomas Morley
British composer
Edward Levy-Lawson, 1st Baron Burnham
British newspaper editor and proprietor
William Boyce
British composer
Thomas Rymer
English critic
Sir Victor Gollancz
British author and publisher
Fell, portrait by Sir Peter Lely; in the City Art Gallery, Bristol, county of Avon
John Fell
English educator, priest, and author
Bowring, detail of an engraving by William Ward (1766-1826), after a painting by H.W. Pickersgill
Sir John Bowring
British diplomat
Carlile, detail of an oil painting by an unknown artist; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
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William Hone, detail of an oil painting by George Patten in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Leonard Woolf
Leonard Woolf
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English printer and lawyer