Freeman Wills Crofts

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Freeman Wills Crofts


Born
in Dublin, Ireland
June 01, 1879

Died
April 11, 1957

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Born in Dublin of English stock, Freeman Wills Crofts was educated at Methodist and Campbell Colleges in Belfast and at age 17 he became a civil engineering pupil, apprenticed to his uncle, Berkeley D Wise who was the chief engineer of the Belfast and Northern Counties Railway (BNCR).

In 1899 he became a fully fledged railway engineer before becoming a district engineer and then chief assistant engineer for the BNCR.

He married in 1912, Mary Bellas Canning, a bank manager's daughter. His writing career began when he was recovering from a serious illness and his efforts were rewarded when his first novel 'The Cask' was accepted for publication by a London publishing house. Within two decades the book had sold 100,000 copies. Thereafter he con
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“If we were all as wise as we should be, we would have no stories to tell”
Freeman Wills Croft

“…so is the wish father to the thought in even the most logical of us…”
Freeman Wills Crofts, Fatal Venture

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