Leo Walmsley
Novelist, Author
1892 – 1966
Who was Leo Walmsley?
Leo Walmsley was an English writer.
He was born at 7 Clifton Place, Shipley in the county of West Yorkshire in 1892, and two years later his family moved to Robin Hood's Bay on the coast of present-day North Yorkshire, where he was schooled at the old Wesleyan chapel. He was the son of the painter Ulric Walmsley. In 1912 the young Leo secured the post of curator-caretaker of the Robin Hood's Bay Marine Laboratory at five shillings a week.
During World War I he served as an observer with the Royal Flying Corps in East Africa, was mentioned in dispatches four times and was awarded the Military Cross. After a plane crash he was sent home, and eventually pursued a literary career. He settled at Pont Pill near Polruan in Cornwall, where he became friendly with the writer Daphne du Maurier.
He was married three times. First in 1919 to Elsie Susanna Preston, whom he divorced in 1932, then in 1933 to Margaret Bell Little and following their divorce in about 1946, finally to Stephanie Gubbins in 1955.
He died in Fowey, Cornwall, on 8 June 1966.
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