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Robin Maugham in 1974, by Allan Warren

Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British author.

Trained as a barrister, he served with distinction in the Second World War, and wrote a successful novella, The Servant, later filmed with Dirk Bogarde and James Fox. This was followed by over thirty books including novels, travelogues, plays and biographical works. In the House of Lords, he drew attention to human trafficking as the new slavery.

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Robin Maugham

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Robert Cecil Romer Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (17 May 1916 – 13 March 1981), known as Robin Maugham, was a British author. Trained as a barrister,...

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Maugham

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best known of the Maughams Syrie Maugham, wife Daphne Mabel Maugham, painter Robin Maugham (1967) [1966]. Somerset and all the Maughams. New American Library...

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The Black Tent

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Derek Sydney as Interpreter The film was based on an original story by Robin Maugham, who had served in the North African Desert during World War II. It...

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MV Joyita

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British author Robin Maugham, spent many years investigating the vessel's past, and published his findings as The Joyita Mystery in 1962. Maugham agreed that...

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Valet

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"Valet" from No Exit (1944) by Jean-Paul Sartre Hugo Barrett, in the 1948 Robin Maugham novella, 1958 play and 1963 Joseph Losey film The Servant Kato, Inspector...

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Gerald Hamilton

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man in Europe". Hamilton counted among his friends Winston Churchill, Robin Maugham, Tallulah Bankhead and Christopher Isherwood, who wrote of Hamilton's...

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Siwa Oasis

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Robin Maugham that the Siwan women were "badly neglected", but that Siwan men "will kill each other for boy. Never for a woman", although as Maugham noted...

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Suresnes

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which still exists at 5 Rue Worth, was described by R.O. Maugham's grandson, Robin Maugham, as being, "very odd indeed – half Swiss chalet and half Japanese...

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Hartfield

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Chancellor from March 1938 until September 1939, and his son, the author Robin Maugham, are buried in the churchyard. Cotchford Farm, Hartfield was the home...

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Viscount Maugham

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Maugham was the younger brother of the first Viscount. Frederic Herbert Maugham, 1st Viscount Maugham (1866–1958) Robert Cecil Romer "Robin" Maugham,...

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The Rough and the Smooth

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Parry. It was written by Robin Maugham, Audrey Erskine Lindop and Dudley Leslie, based on the 1951 novel of the same title by Maugham. It was distributed in...

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Play Without Words

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work is an adaptation of the Joseph Losey film The Servant, after the Robin Maugham novel of the same title. "Productions: Play Without Words". Royal National...

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Escape from the Shadows

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the 1972 autobiography of Robin Maugham, later the 2nd Viscount Maugham. The title refers to three huge shadows over Maugham’s life: his famous father,...

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1960 Agadir earthquake

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ruins. One of the many victims of the disaster was author and lawyer Robin Maugham. He was treated at a hospital in Casablanca for minor injuries he received...

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LGBT rights in Egypt

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Robin Maugham that the Siwan women were "badly neglected", but that Siwan men "will kill each other for boy. Never for a woman", although as Maugham noted...

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List of playwrights

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England) Mustapha Matura (1939–2019, Trinidad) Robin Maugham (1916–1981, England) W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965, England) Vladimir Mayakovsky (1893–1930...

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Harold Pinter

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to their close friendship: The Servant (1963), based on the novel by Robin Maugham; Accident (1967), adapted from the novel by Nicholas Mosley; and The...

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List of Old Etonians born in the 20th century

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Kumaramangalam (1916–1973) Indian politician and communist theorist Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham (1916–1981) Dennis Poore (1916–1987), racing driver, entrepreneur...

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Myers v Elman

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judge Robin Maugham, 2nd Viscount Maugham made the order for damages, holding that Osborne had knowingly prepared a false affidavit. Lord Maugham said...

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LGBT history

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the late 1940s, a Siwan merchant told the visiting British novelist Robin Maugham that the Siwan men "will kill each other for boy. Never for a woman"...

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Collie Knox

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landscape designer Peter Coats, and together with Sir David Webster, Robin Maugham, Douglas Byng, and others, became slightly notorious as one of that...

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