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    Edmund Clerihew Bentley (10 July 1875 – 30 March 1956), who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley or E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist...
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  • A clerihew (/ˈklɛrɪhjuː/) is a whimsical, four-line biographical poem of a type invented by Edmund Clerihew Bentley. The first line is the name of the...
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  • of Edmund Clerihew Bentley (inventor of the clerihew verse form), he was given the name Nicholas, but opted to change the spelling. Nicholas Clerihew Bentley...
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    eldest son, Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875–1956) became a famous writer, journalist, and was also renowned as the inventor of the 'clerihew', a form of...
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    thriller. Chesterton prefixed the novel with a poem written to Edmund Clerihew Bentley, revisiting the pair's early history and the challenges presented...
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    description of the period in his Autobiography and his "Dedication to Edmund Clerihew Bentley" in The Man Who Was Thursday. Peter Faulkner (1995), "Introduction"...
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    schooldays was Edmund Clerihew Bentley, inventor of the clerihew, a whimsical four-line biographical poem. Chesterton himself wrote clerihews and illustrated...
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  • the city and his wife, Margaret (nee Richardsom). Edmund Clerihew Bentley, the inventor of the Clerihew, the form of poetry, was his nephew. He went to...
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  • Chippendale chair, Chippendale furniture – Thomas Chippendale ClerihewEdmund Clerihew Bentley Coade stone – Eleanor Coade Codd-neck bottle – Hiram Codd...
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    men. If anyone calls, Say I'm designing Saint Paul's." A clerihew by Edmund Clerihew Bentley In designing St Paul's, Christopher Wren had to meet many...
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