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William Fawcett (author)
William Claude Fawcett (1902 – 18 May 1941) was an English journalist, editor, broadcaster, and prolific author on fox hunting, horse racing, and equestrianism.
He died in 1941 while serving in the Royal Army Service Corps.
==Early life==
Fawcett was only son of Sir William Claude Fawcett (1868–1935), a solicitor, of the Grange, Stainton, Cleveland, by his marriage in 1901 to Adeline, the daughter of Frederick Henry Brentnall,〔'Fawcett, Sir William Claude, Kt. 1927', in ''Who Was Who, vol. III'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1960)〕 the village schoolmaster at Stainton.〔''National Union of Teachers Annual Report'' (1892), p. 42: "Brentnall, Mr F., BdS, Stainton-in-Cleveland".〕 He began his hunting career at the age of two-and-a-half with the Cleveland Hunt.〔 He had two younger sisters, Rosalie Molyneux Fawcett, born in 1907 and Elizabeth Joyce Fawcett born 1913〔''Kelly's handbook to the titled, landed and official classes'' vol. 95 (Kelly's, 1969), p. 618: "Stanley Vernon, s. of late Col. Vernon Wm. Frank Dickins. DSO VD, of 39 Redington Rd. Hampstead, NW3; b. 1904; educ. Oundle and Christ's Coll. Cambridge: m. 1931, Rosalie Molyneux, dau. of sir William Claude Fawcett..."〕 He was educated at Aysgarth and at Uppingham School.〔'Fawcett, William', in ''Who Was Who 1941–1950'' (London: A. & C. Black, 1980 reprint, ISBN 0-7136-2131-1)〕
Through his grandfather, William Rhodes Fawcett, the young Fawcett was a descendant of Henry Clifford, 1st Earl of Cumberland KG (1493–1542), of John Clifford, 9th Baron de Clifford, a Lancastrian leader of the Wars of the Roses, and through Lady Elizabeth Percy of Sir Harry Hotspur, Mary of Lancaster, and King Henry III.〔Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval, ''The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy: Containing the Descendants of Lady Elizabeth Percy, née Mortimer'' (London: 1911), pp. (19 ) & (325 )〕〔L. S. Milward & E. C. Bullock, ''The Malvern Register, 1865–1904'' (Office of the Malvern Advertiser, 1905), p. 167: "FAWCETT, William Claude; born 1868; son of William Rhodes Fawcett. Solicitor (Honours Solicitors' Final Exam 1901). Stainton Grange, Stockton-on-Tees."〕
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