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In 1945, Piper married Anne Horatia (1920–2017), daughter of Oliffe Richmond, classics professor at Edinburgh University. She was a novelist and playwright. They had three daughters – Evanthe, Ruth, and Emma – [9] [10] and a son, theatre designer Tom Piper (born 1964).
In 1945, Piper married Anne Horatia (1920–2017), daughter of Oliffe Richmond, classics professor at Edinburgh University. She was a novelist and playwright. They had three daughters – Evanthe, Ruth and Emma – and a son, theatre designer Tom Piper (born 1964).
Aug 22, 2019 · “It was his way of dealing with it,” says his son. And while, in the novel, the young soldier escapes through the jungle — no spoilers for how it ends — in reality, while Piper’s father did...
Jan 4, 1991 · Sir David Piper, an internationally known art historian and museum director, died on Saturday at his home in Wytham, near Oxford. He was 72 years old and had emphysema. He died of heart...
Jan 5, 1991 · LONDON — Sir David Piper, an internationally known art historian and museum director, has died of heart failure at his home. He was 72. Piper, who had been ill for some time with emphysema, died...
David Towry Piper was born on 21 July 1918 in Wimbledon, Surrey, the second of three sons of Stephen Harvey Piper, later professor of physics at The University of Bristol, and his wife Mary Joyce Caswell.
Lucky Jim’s 35-year-old creator is foremost among a group of postwar writers, e.g., John Wain, John Osborne, Thomas Hinde, Peter Towry, John Braine, who have given British writing in the ’50s...
