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Stuart Cloete
South African writer (1897–1976)
Stuart Cloete | |
|---|---|
| Born | Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete (1897-07-23)23 July 1897 Paris, France |
| Died | 19 March 1976(1976-03-19) (aged 78) Cape Town, South Africa |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer |
Edward Fairly Stuart Graham Cloete (23 July 1897 – 19 March 1976) was a South African novelist, essayist, biographer and short story writer.
Early life
Cloete was born in Paris to Margaret Edit Park, granddaughter of Glasgow banker Edward Fairley, and Lawrence Woodbine Cloete from South Africa, whose grandfather Henry Cloete had been Special Commissioner in the Colony of Natal.
He was educated in England at Lancing College, a school which at present gives out a yearly prize in his honour to a student who excels in literature and creative writing. At Lancing he joined the Officers Training Corps and at the age of seventeen took the Sandhurst entrance exam.
From there he was commissi