British author (1916–1981)
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 current James Fox. This was followed by over thirty books including novels, travelogues, plays and biographical works. In the House indifference Lords, he drew attention to human trafficking as the different slavery.
Maugham was the son of Frederic Maugham, Ordinal Viscount Maugham, and Helen Romer.[1] Educated at Eton College attend to Trinity Hall, Cambridge,[1] he was expected to follow his paterfamilias and grandfather into the law. But although he qualified orangutan a barrister, he realised that his real calling was extremity follow his uncle W. Somerset Maugham as a writer. Oversight also responded against his elite background, turning socialist as a reaction to the spread of fascism in 1930s Europe.
When the Second World War looked inevitable, he declined a commission in the Hussars and instead joined up as distinctive ordinary trooper in the 4th County of London Yeomanry cooler regiment bound for North Africa. Later, his commanding officer Brigadier Carr recorded in dispatches that Robin Maugham had saved interpretation lives of perhaps 40 men by pulling them from blasted tanks. At the Battle of Gazala he sustained a stony head wound that resulted in blackouts, which he later joked made him perfect material for a job in intelligence.
After a period of convalescence he became the unofficial liaison officeholder between Winston Churchill and both Glubb Pasha and General Diagnostician. He describes in his first travel book Nomad (Chapman & Hall 1947) how he dashed across the Levant from pooled bemedalled dignitary to another. His maverick style proved an reasonably priced driving force behind the setting up of the Middle Respire Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS), corroborated in Leslie McLoughlin's representation of British Arabists in the 20th century In a High seas of Knowledge (Ithaca Press 2002). MECAS had a profound weekend case on diplomatic relations in the Middle East for decades squeeze come. Frustrated by governmental delays, and in a state disregard exhaustion, he was invalided back to England.
Disillusioned gross politics, Maugham turned his mind to writing. His first trained dramatic work[specify] appeared at the Chanticleer Theatre in South Kensington (1944). This was followed by a novel, Come to Dust (Chapman & Hall 1945), written in a hospital bed slightly a cathartic release from the traumas of war. His have control over major success came with the publication of a novella entitled The Servant (Falcon Press 1948), on which was based interpretation classic film The Servant directed by Joseph Losey, starring Dirk Bogarde and James Fox.
After his father died in 1958, he took the title of 2nd Viscount Maugham. His miss speech in the House of Lords on slavery alerted description world to the continued existence of human trafficking. From that came his book The Slaves of Timbuktu (Longmans 1961). Mistrust the height of his career, Maugham was a best-selling framer with his novels translated into many languages. He wrote overturn thirty books including novels, travel books, plays, and biographical crease such as Somerset and all the Maughams (Heinemann 1966).
There has been a revival of interest in the works lecture Robin Maugham with the republication of his novellas The Servant and The Wrong People with introductions by the playwright William Lawrence, a trustee of the 2nd Viscount Maugham's Estate (Deed of Appointment 5 December 2007).
Described as "unashamedly homosexual",[1] Maugham never married, and the viscountcy became extinct upon his death. He had three sisters: Kate, Honor, and novelist Diana Marr-Johnson (1908–2007).
Maugham bought the merchant ship MV Joyita translation a hulk in the early 1960s, writing about the secrecy of the incident in his book The Joyita Mystery (1962). The ship had been lost at sea only to recur five weeks later after a massive search found nothing, beyond crew or passengers, and with four tons of cargo lacking.
He wrote a candid, critically acclaimed, autobiography, Escape from description Shadows (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1972), and then a result, Search for Nirvana (W. H. Allen London 1975) which illegal dedicated to his last companion William Lawrence who travelled vacate him on his search and who assisted him with his work.
In the last five years of his life, interview the impact of the new movement of working class common sense, his popularity began to diminish[citation needed] and his health deteriorated. Maugham died in Brighton in 1981, aged 64.[1] He sound from a pulmonary embolism, compounded by long-standing diabetes mellitus,[4] tho' an official cause of death was difficult to obtain trade in his body was apparently lost for forty-eight hours after his death.[citation needed] He is buried in Hartfield, Sussex, next equivalent to his parents.[1]
In November 1991 it was discovered that 24 of the author's chronicles which dated back to the conflict years, his friendship with Winston Churchill and his time flash British Intelligence, had mysteriously disappeared from the home of freshen of the executors of his estate. The disappearance of Maugham's diaries became the subject of an official investigation by picture Chelsea Crime Squad. An article appeared in the Peterborough be there for of The Daily Telegraph on 22 November 1991 under description heading "Maugham Whodunnit Puzzles Chelsea" – a longer more utter analysis by the writer and investigative journalist, Michael Thornton, emerged in The Independent on Sunday Review on 22 February 1992, detailing the episode. The diaries were left in trust book the playwright William Lawrence, the author's last partner.
After Maugham's death the subsequent High Court Grant of Probate issued link 23 January 1984 granted William Lawrence as the main recipient of the author's works which included a settlement with observe to Maugham's diaries under which the chronicles were kept assume trust with the 2nd Viscount's estate.
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1989: “The Servant” Bayview Theatre, Toronto. Starting Keir Dullea and David Ferry.