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Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

Mervyn Peake was born of British parents in Kuling ( Lushan ) in Jiangxi Province of central China in 1911 only three months before the revolution and the founding of the Republic of China.

Mervyn Peake attended Tientsin Grammar School until the family left for England in December 1922 via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

The Collected Poems of Mervyn Peake was published by Carcanet Press in June 2008.

Other collections include The Drawings of Mervyn Peake ( 1974 ), Writings and Drawings ( 1974 ), and Mervyn Peake: the man and his art ( 2006 ).

The serial was titled " The History of Titus Groan " and adapted all three novels written by Mervyn Peake and the recently discovered concluding volume, " Titus Awakes " completed by his widow, Maeve Gilmore.

* Drawings by Mervyn Peake ( 1949 )

* The Drawings of Mervyn Peake ( 1974 )

* Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings ( 1974 )

* " Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels.

) ( 2006 ) Mervyn Peake: the man and his art.

* Winnington, G. Peter ( 2000 ) Vast Alchemies: the life and work of Mervyn Peake.

* Peake, Mervyn ( ca. 1950 ) ' Notes towards a Projected Autobiography ', printed in Maeve Gilmore ( ed.

), Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake ( London: Allen Lane, 1978 )

* Mervyn Peake, the official site

* The Scriptorium: Mervyn Peake

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A month later, long time BDO player Mervyn King ( who once claimed he would never play for the PDC ) also followed, showing the continuing struggle for dominance between the bodies.

He returned to racing in May 2007 at Hollywood Park where he finished third in the Grade II Mervyn LeRoy Handicap.

In the film, Petty Officer Second Class Miller comforts Captain Mervyn S. Bennion who has been mortally wounded by a torpedo that strikes the, and is with him when he dies.

In the performance of traditional Māori musical instruments Richard Nunns has earned wide respect, as have the contributions made by many academics, for example, Dame Anne Salmond in the area of traditional rituals of encounter, or Mervyn McLean in the analysis of traditional song.

Other features quickly followed and, in 1981, he co-wrote ( with Michael Bakewell ) BBC Radio 4's adaptation of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, and has also adapted C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia and Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan and Gormenghast for Radio 4, for which he received a Sony Radio Award in 1985.

The band has also stepped out from behind their instruments and microphone stands to produce films, including two documenting the landscape of the city of London: Finisterre ( 2002 ) inspired by the 1967 short film The London Nobody Knows, and What Have You Done Today, Mervyn Day?

Aside from the Montsalvat artist community, Eltham has also been home to artists such as Walter Withers and Neil Douglas, as well as to writers such as Alan Marshall and Mervyn Skipper.

Mervyn Watson, executive producer of Casualty, has commented on the origins of the idea to fully cross the two shows over for the first time: " I think the idea came from somebody in the comedy department, who casually said to the Controller of Drama ' Wouldn't it be a good idea if ....' The Controller did think it was a good idea, spoke to myself and Holby's executive producer, got it commissioned by the Head of BBC One and the rest is history.

Footscray ( now called Footscray-Edgewater ) subsequently has had their main home ground named after him ; it is now known as the Mervyn G. Hughes Oval.

Schmidt has recorded a few solo albums and written an opera based on Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast.

Radio Ceylon has produced some of the finest announcers of South Asia among them: Livy Wijemanne, Vernon Corea, Pearl Ondaatje, Tim Horshington, Greg Roskowski, Jimmy Bharucha, Mil Sansoni, Eardley Peiris, Shirley Perera, Bob Harvie, B. H. Abdul Hameed, Claude Selveratnam, Christopher Greet, Prosper Fernando, Tony de Costa, Ameen Sayani ( of Binaca Geetmala fame ), S. P. Mylvaganam ( the first Tamil Announcer on the Commercial Service ), Thevis Guruge, H. M. Gunasekera, A. W. Dharmapala, Karunaratne Abeysekera, Chitrananda Abeysekera, Kailayar Sellanainar Sivakumaran, Mervyn Jayasuriya, Vijaya Corea, Elmo Fernando, Eric Fernando, Nihal Bhareti Leon Belleth and V Sundharalingam.

Architect Walter Craig ( Mervyn Johns ) arrives at a country house party where he reveals to the assembled guests that he has seen them all in a dream.

During this whole period, Lord Peter has a manservant called Mervyn Bunter, and in him Ms Sayers created a fictional persona that is fascinating and enigmatic.

* Gwent, Mervyn & Evans, Evan, A portrait of Gower, Swansea: Royal Institution of South Wales ; Gower Society, 1952 — has a chapter about Ilston Beck, John Myles and the Ilston Book.

In particular, while in the army he met Sergeant Mervyn Bunter, who had previously been in service.

Miller was spotted by Lieutenant Commander Doir C. Johnson, the ship's communications officer, who ordered the powerfully built sailor to accompany him to the bridge to assist with moving the ship's Captain Mervyn Bennion, who had a gaping wound in his abdomen where he had apparently been hit by shrapnel.

Less than a year before they married, Mervyn Jones had been charged with aggravated murder and robbery.

Andy is shot and killed by Billy in the last episode after it is revealed that Andy and Mervyn had been taking out huge loans in Billy's name, eventually leaving him penniless.

The competition went down to the last day of the season, and was won by Mervyn Wallace, despite many fans ' belief that Race himself had got the last touch on what would have been his 50th goal.

Dr. Mervyn O ' Driscoll of University College Cork reported on the unofficial and official barriers that prevented Jews from finding refuge in Ireland although the barriers have been down ever since: