Vicars Bell
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Vicars Walker Bell MBE (24 January 1904 – 21 April 1988) was a schoolteacher, and later headmaster, at Little Gaddesden Church of England School in Hertfordshire, England, from 1929 to 1963. He was also a successful author who wrote children's books, detective stories set in a rural village, and autobiographical and non-fiction works. He was described by The Times as a "village chronicler".[2]
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Born | Vicars Walker Bell (1904-01-24)24 January 1904 Redhill, Surrey, England |
Died | 21 April 1988(1988-04-21) (aged 84) Tavistock, Devon, England |
Alma mater | University College London |
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Dorothy E. Carley (m. 1926) |
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