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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 20 November 1926
- Died
- 3 August 2007
- Works
- 261
Top works
- Classroom X-Factor
- Classroom X-Factor
- Grendel (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
- Ian Fleming's James Bond back in action
- Ian Fleming's master spy James Bond in Nobody lives forever
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- Total plays
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John Linton Gardner, CBE (born March 2, 1917) was an English composer of classical music. Gardner was born in Manchester, England and brought up in Ilfracombe, North Devon. His father Alfred Linton Gardner was a local GP and amateur composer who was killed in action in the last months of the First World War. His mother, Emily Muriel Pullein-Thompson, was the sister of Captain Harold J "Cappy" Pullein-Thompson, who was the father of the Pullein-Thompson sisters and their brother, the playwright
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Gardner
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Glasgow
- Place of death
- Oxford
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- The Glasgow Academy
- Employer
- King's College London
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- philosophy of law
- Work location
- Scotland
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- date of birth
- 1965-03-23
- member of
- British Academy
- date of death
- 2019-07-11
- name in native language
- John Gardner
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