In 1839 he settled his private life by marrying Mary Anne Lewis, the rich widow of Wyndham Lewis, Disraeli's erstwhile colleague at Maidstone.

Modernists explicitly of ' the right ' include Salvador Dalí, Wyndham Lewis, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, the Dutch author Menno ter Braak and others.

* March 7 – Wyndham Lewis, English painter ( b. 1882 )

He knew Wyndham Lewis well, also, reviewing his work in The Egoist at this time, hanging a Lewis portfolio around the room and on a similar note of tension between the domestic and the small circle of London modernists regretting having lent Lewis his razor when the latter announced with hindsight a venereal infection.

Born Mary Anne Evans in Tongwynlais, Cardiff, she first married Wyndham Lewis, MP and after his death she remarried to Benjamin Disraeli.

In September 1926, he married Jane Wyndham-Lewis ( ex-wife of the original ' Beachcomber ' D. B. Wyndham-Lewis, no relation to the artist Wyndham Lewis ); they had two daughters and one son.

* Percy Wyndham Lewis, artist and writer

Modern British artists represented in the collection include: Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, Eric Gill, Stanley Spencer, John Piper, Graham Sutherland, Lucian Freud and David Hockney.

Franz Kafka ( 1883-1924 ): " The Metamorphosis " ( 1915 ), The Trial ( 1925 ), The Castle ( 1926 ); Rainer Maria Rilke ( 1875-1926 ): The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge ( 1910 ); Alfred Döblin ( 1857-1957 ): Berlin Alexanderplatz ( 1929 ); Wyndham Lewis ( 1882-1957 ); Djuna Barnes ( 1892-1982 ): Nightwood ( 1936 ); Malcolm Lowry ( 1909-57 ): Under the Volcano ( 1947 ); Ernest Hemingway ; William Faulkner ; James Hanley ( 1897-1985 ); James Joyce ( 1882-1941 ): " The Nighttown " section of Ulysses ( 1922 ); Patrick White ( 1912-90 ); D. H. Lawrence ; Sheila Watson: Double Hook ; Elias Canetti: Auto de Fe ; Thomas Pynchon.

He went on to co-found the Vorticists with his friend, the painter and writer Wyndham Lewis.

As the junior partner at Cape, he had to handle their difficult authors including Robert Graves, Wyndham Lewis and Arthur Ransome, the last being seen as difficult because of his wife Genia, with her " distrustfulness, venom and guile ".

Just before World War I he championed the avant-garde artists Lucien Pissarro, Jacob Epstein, Augustus John and Wyndham Lewis.

Percy Wyndham Lewis ( 18 November 1882 – 7 March 1957 ) was an English painter and author ( he dropped the name ' Percy ', which he disliked ).

Workshop, c1914 – 15 by Wyndham Lewis, in the Tate Collection.

Wyndham Lewis, photograph by George Charles Beresford, 1917

Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro, a self portrait, 1921.

A Reading of Ovid and Mr Wyndham Lewis as a Tyro are the only surviving oil paintings from this series.

Wyndham Lewis in 1929, photographed by George Charles Beresford

However, no less an authority than Walter Sickert once claimed that: ' Wyndham Lewis the greatest portraitist of this or any other time ', though it was left to Lewis to make this statement public.

In 1956 the Tate Gallery held a major exhibition of his work, " Wyndham Lewis and Vorticism ," in the catalogue to which he declared that " Vorticism, in fact, was what I, personally, did and said at a certain period "— a statement which brought forth a series of " Vortex Pamphlets " from his fellow " BLAST " signatory William Roberts.

* Childs, Wyndham Episodes and reflections: being some records from the life of Major-General Sir Wyndham Childs, K. C. M. G., K. B. E., C. B., one time second lieut., 2nd Volunteer Battalion, the Duke of Cornwall's Light Infantry Cassell, 1930

The Apes of God is a 1930 novel by the British artist and writer Wyndham Lewis.

He altered his writing style and by 1951, using the John Wyndham pen name for the first time, wrote the novel The Day of the Triffids.

* Web ( novel ) by John Wyndham, posthumously published novel set on an island populated by spiders

The Day of the Triffids is a post-apocalyptic novel about aggressive plants taking over the world, published in 1951 by the English science fiction author John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, under the pen-name John Wyndham.

The Childermass, after a traditional name for the Feast of the Holy Innocents, is the opening novel of Wyndham Lewis's trilogy The Human Age.

Frame spent her early childhood years in various small towns in New Zealand's South Island provinces of Otago and Southland, including Outram and Wyndham, before the family eventually settled in the coastal town of Oamaru ( recognisable as the " Waimaru " of her début novel and subsequent fiction ).

* The Outward Urge ( 1959 ), a science fiction novel by John Wyndham

A fictionalized version of Campbell at this time (" Rob McPhail ") appears in the novel Snooty Baronet by Wyndham Lewis ( 1932 ).

Blast 1 was edited and largely written by Wyndham Lewis with contributions from Pound, Gaudier-Brzeska, Epstein, Spencer Gore, Wadsworth, and Rebecca West and included an extract from Ford Madox Hueffer's novel The Saddest Story, better known by its later title The Good Soldier ( published under his subsequent pseudonym, Ford Madox Ford ).

Rebirth a novel written by John Wyndham in 1969

The Kraken Wakes is an apocalyptic science fiction novel by John Wyndham, originally published by Michael Joseph in the UK in 1953 and first published in the US in the same year by Ballantine Books under the title Out of the Deeps as a mass market paperback.

Trouble with Lichen ( published 1960 ) is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham.

The Outward Urge is a science fiction novel by John Wyndham ( although it might arguably be regarded as a collection of linked short stories ).

* The Midwich Cuckoos, the John Wyndham novel on which the movies are based

It is a remake of the 1960 film of the same name which is based on the novel The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham.

In 1984 Read adapted the John Wyndham novel, Chocky, for Children's ITV.

In May 1978, they became The Triffids, taking their name from the post-apocalyptic novel by John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids.

He married Jitke Sigmund, a Czech-born woman who was chief buyer for Marks & Spencer, and spent a year in Paris, where he attempted to become a painter and wrote a novel ( about expatriates in Paris ) in a style heavily influenced by Percy Wyndham Lewis.

The growing threats of the 1930s brought new criticism from younger writers of " what the last lot had done ( Bloomsbury, Modernism, Eliot ) in favour of what they thought of as urgent hard-hitting realism "; while " Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, which called Bloomsbury élitist, corrupt and talentless, caused a stir " of its own.

One piece that he directed there was W. S. Gilbert's first successful solo play, Dulcamara, or the Little Duck and the Great Quack ( 1866 ) A year later he joined the company of the newly-opened Queen's Theatre, where he acted with Charles Wyndham, J. L. Toole, Lionel Brough, John Clayton, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wigan, Ellen Terry and Nellie Farren.

Tuckett said there was nothing he could reliably do for injuries so serious, and tried unsuccessfully to contact doctors at Wyndham, and then Derby, by telegraph.

Porteus published a review there of Wyndham Lewis's Hitler ( 1931 ), that was " unqualified praise ".

There are several primary schools in Wyndham Vale, however until very recently there were no secondary schools in the area.