Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Birkenhead

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Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith Birkenhead


Born
December 07, 1907

Died
July 09, 1975

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Frederick Winston Furneaux Smith, 2nd Earl of Birkenhead was a British historian. He is best known for writing a controversial biography of Rudyard Kipling that was suppressed by the Kipling family for many years, and which, in fact, he never lived to see in print. The son of F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead, he was known as Viscount Furneaux from 1922, when his father, then 1st Viscount Birkenhead, was created Earl of Birkenhead. Lord Furneaux was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and inherited his father's peerages in 1930. ...more

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Rudyard Kipling

3.63 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions
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Life of Lord Halifax

3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1965
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F. E.: The Life of F. E. Sm...

3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions
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The Professor and the Prime...

2.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1961 — 2 editions
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Walter Monckton: the life o...

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1969 — 3 editions
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Churchill, 1874-1922

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The young Rudyard Kipling (...

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F. E. ; the life of F. E. S...

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Frederick Edwin, Earl of Bi...

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Kipling and the Vermont feud

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