Richard S. Lambert
English biographer, popular historian and broadcaster (1894–1981)
Richard Stanton Lambert (25 August 1894 – 27 November 1981) was an English biographer, popular historian and broadcaster. He was also the founding editor of The Listener and an employee of the BBC and CBC. His books mainly concern history and biography but he also wrote about crime, travel, art, radio, film and propaganda.2
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Born Aug 25, 1894, died 1981.1
About
In Ariel and All His Quality he wrote about his time with the BBC in its formative years. Propaganda, published in 1939, was a timely investigation of a subject already made familiar during World War I.
For Franklin of the Arctic: a life of adventure, published by McClelland and Stewart in 1949, Lambert won both the first Governor General's Award for Juvenile Fiction and the third Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children Award.
From Wikipedia’s article on Richard S. Lambert, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2
Companies
- The Stanton PressFounder8
Early life and education
- Date not recordedWadham College3
Career
Occupation: historian, biographer, journalist, broadcaster, editor, editing staff, parapsychologist.6
- Date not recordedWorked at British Broadcasting Corporation4
- Date not recordedFounded The Stanton Press5
Personal life
- BornAug 25, 1894, Kingston upon Thames7
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- 1WikidataRichard S. Lambert on Wikidata
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