Alan Alexander Milne (1882–1956) was one of Britain’s most prolific and successful writers. Yet he was frustrated, even despairing, that for half his working life he was known chiefly as the man who invented Winnie-the-Pooh.
Colonel James Royds attended the final engagement of his year of office as High Sheriff of Northumberland where it began, in Hexham Abbey, with his wife Camilla and Chaplain Canon Alan Hughes and Mrs Susan Hughes.
A single Holland & Holland weaves together a story of the Great War’s trenches, one of the world’s best gunmakers, Britain’s greatest 20th century soldier and the author of Gunga Din.