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Peter Vansittart
Peter Vansittart OBE, FRSL (27 August 1920 – 4 October 2008) was an English writer. He had 50 novels published between 1942 and 2008; he also wrote historical studies, memoirs, stories for children and three anthologies: ''Voices from the Great War'' (his most popular book), ''Voices 1870-1914'' and ''Voices of the Revolution''. He received an OBE in 2008 for his services to literature.〔http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/7163271.stm〕
==Biography==
He was born in Bedford in 1920, the son of Edwin Morris and Mignon Vansittart. He was a distant cousin of Robert Vansittart, Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs between 1930 and 1938. Peter Vansittart was educated at Marlborough House School, Haileybury College and Worcester College, Oxford, although he spent only a year at Oxford〔D.J Taylor (Obituary: Peter Vansittart ), ''The Independent'', 9 October 2008〕 and did not graduate. He worked as a schoolteacher at progressive schools — most notably Burgess Hill School, Hampstead — for 25 years before becoming a full-time writer. He wrote a novel about his time as a schoolteacher called ''Broken Canes''.〔http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4801/Vansittart-Peter.html〕 For many years he made money by letting rooms in a house in Hampstead which he bought for £200 in cash from an acquaintance in a pub in the 1940s. This inspired his novel ''Landlord''. After living in London for much of his life, Vansittart moved to Suffolk to a house inherited from his mother.
He died on October 4, 2008 at Ipswich Hospital aged 88.〔http://www.legacy.com/timesonline-uk/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonID=118549993〕
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