Noël Olivier
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Hon. Noël Olivier Richards was an English medical doctor. She was born on Christmas Day 1892, hence her name, as the daughter of Sydney Olivier, 1st Baron Olivier and Margaret Cox. A cousin was the ac
Noël Olivier 1923
Noël Olivier; Maitland Radford; Virginia Woolf; Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke
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Rupert Chawner Brooke was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier". He was also known for his boyish good looks, wh
Noël Olivier
…Sir Laurence Olivier. She attended the progressive Bedales School in Petersfield, Hampshire. Later she was a member of both the Bloomsbury Group and Rupert Brooke's group of Cambridge Neopagans. For a while, she and Brooke were in a relationship. She met the poet Rupert Brooke at a supper party in May 1907, prior…
Brooke c. 1913
Brooke's birthplace in Rugby in 2017
Childhood photograph of Rupert Brooke (right) with his younger brother Alfred Brooke (left) and dog Trim (1898)
Rupert Brooke as an officer in 1914