Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole

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Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole, 1884-1941

Lived at: Turner Drive (date unknown) and 19 Thornton Way

Profession: Author

Professional work:

• Prolific and successful novelist and biographer.  Novels include:
• 'Mr Perrin and Mr Traill', 1911,
• 'The Dutchess of Wrexe’, 1914,
• ‘The Secret City’, 1919
• and the Herries series in the 1930s.

Sir Hugh Seymour Walpole