![]() ![]() 25th, 1916" ("God willed it so, that in your ardent youth / You should look into Hell. To Rachel and other poems, undiscoverable in any library catalogue, is dedicated "To my Dearest After the Battle on the Somme Sept. She had one son and three daughters, the second of whom, Frances Patricia Layland-Barratt (1894-1967), married first, 1915, Major Gervase Disney (1880-1951 divorced 1933) and secondly, 1933, Hugh Quennell (1902-1955), solicitor, sometime chairman of the British Lion Film Corporation and, during the Second World War, the SOE's senior representative in Gibraltar their daughter Gillian (born 1934) married first, 1955, John George Walter Henderson-Cleland and secondly, 1978, Colin Ellis, and was later ordained a priest in the Church of England. ![]() Frances Layland-Barratt (née Layland, 1868-1953) married in 1884 Francis Barratt (later Layland-Barratt, 1860-1933, created first Bt 1908), MP for Torquay, 1900-10, and then St Austell, 1915-18, and was author of six novels, The Shadow of the Church (1886), Doubts are Traitors (1889), Beatrix Cadell (1892), Ann Kembal (1934), Lycanthia (1935) and Joy Court (1936), as well as Poems (1914). Inscribed by the author on the title-page, "Gillian Quennell", and on the front pastedown, "Gillian Quennell from Grannie 1948". ![]() ![]() Spine slightly darkened and rubbed, with some wear at head. Undated, but 1920? Green suede wrappers, gilt. ![]()
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