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Portrait of Ted Allbeury Photo: Keith Beaty/Toronto Star via Getty Images (1982)

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Allbeury, Ted

The British author of espionage fiction Theodore Edward le Bouthillier Allbeury was born in Stockport, Cheshire. His father was an army officer who was killed a few days before the end of the First World War. His mother moved with her two children first to Essex and later to Allbeury’s paternal grandparents in Birmingham where he first attended the Slade Primary School at Erdington and later the K...

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Portrait image of Brian Freemantle Brian Freemantle as journalist In East Pakistan Photo: ANL/REX/TT

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Freemantle, Brian

Brian Harry Freemantle is a British writer and journalist. He was born in Southampton, Hampshire, where he attended Bitterne Park Secondary Modern School. After leaving school in 1953, Freemantle began working for local newspapers and was later employed at the New Milton Advertiser. In 1958, he moved to London where he was foreign editor as well as a foreign correspondent posted in some 30...

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