Male : Humorous writer

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1890 Date of Death : 1971 Age : 81

Other Work : Barrister. MP for Oxford University 1935-50

Education : Winchester & Oxford

1910-1920
Poor Poems and Rotten Rhymes (1910 P & G Wells, Winchester)
Play Hours with Pegasus (1912 Blackwell, Oxford)
Half Hours with Helles (1916 Blackwell, Ox)
The Bomber Gipsy (1918 Methuen)
The Secret Battle (1919 Methuen) (1920 Knopf)
The House by the River (1920 Methuen)
[Filmed in 1950]

1921-1925
The Wherefore and the Why (1921 Methuen) - George Morrow
Light Articles Only (1921 Methuen)
"Tinker, Tailor...." (1922 Methuen)
The Man About Town (1923 Heinemann)
Double Demon : An Absurdity in One Act (1924 Blackwell)
Laughing Ann (1925 T Fisher Unwin)
The Old Flame (1925 Methuen)

1926-1930
She Shanties (1926 T Fisher Unwin)
Riverside Nights (1926 T Fisher Unwin) - with Nigel Playfair
The Red Pen (1927 BBC)
Two Gentlemen of Soho (1927 Samuel French)
Fat King Melon & Princess Caraway (1927 OUP)
Plain Jane (1927 T Fisher Unwin)
Misleading Cases in the Common Law (1927 Methuen)
The Trials of Topsy (1928 T Fisher Unwin)
Honeybubble & Co (1928 Methuen)
Topsy MP (1929 Benn)
Plain Jane (1929 Samuel French)
La Vie Parisienne (1929 Benn) - with A Davies Adams
The Water Gipsies (1930 Methuen)
[Filmed in 1932]
Wisdom for the Wise (1930 Methuen)
More Misleading Cases (1930 Methuen)
Ballads for Broadbrows (1930 Benn)

1931-1935
Derby Day (1931 Methuen)
Tantivy Towers (1931 Methuen)
Derby Day (1931 Methuen)
Tantivy Towers/Derby Day (1932)
Helen (1932 Methuen)
"No Boats on the River...." (1932 Methuen)
A P Herbert (1933 Methuen)
Still More Misleading Cases (1933)
Holy Deadlock (1934 Methuen)
Mr Pewter (1934 Methuen)
What a Word ! (1935 Methuen)
Letter to the Electors of Oxford University (1935 APH)
Uncommon Law (1935)
Dolphin Square (1935 Richard Costain) - H M Bateman

1936-1940
Mild and Bitter (1936 Methuen)
Sip ! Swallow ! (1937 Methuen)
The Ayes Have it : The Story of the Marriage of Bill (1937 Methuen)
General Cargo (1939 Methuen)
Siren Song (1940 Methuen)
Let There be Liberty (1940 Macmillan's War Pamphlets)

1941-1945
Let Us be Glum (1941 Methuen)
Let Us be Gay (1941 Methuen)
"Well, Anyhow ...." (1942 Methuen)
Bring Back the Bells (1943 Methuen)
Less Nonsense (1944 Methuen)
ATI (1944 Ornum Press)
A Better Sky (1944 Methuen)
Letter to the Electors of Oxford University (1945 APH)
Light the Lights (1945 Methuen)
The War Story of Southend Pier (1945 Southend Corp)

1946-1950
The Point of Parliament (1946 Methuen)
(Intro) A School of Purposes : A Selection of Fougasse Posters 1939-1945
(1946 Methuen)
Big Ben (1946 Methuen)
Bless the Bride (1947 Samuel French)
Topsy Turvy (1947 Benn)
The Topsy Omnibus (1948 Benn)
Mr Gay's London (1948 Benn)
Leave my Old Morale Alone (1948 Doubleday, NY)
Independent Member (1950 Methuen)
The English Laugh (1950 English Assoc Presidential Address)

1951-1960
Come to the Ball (1951 Benn)
Come to the Ball (1951 Benn) - with Reginald Arkell
Number Nine (1951 Methuen)
Why Waterloo ? (1952 Methuen)
Pen Portraits (1952 Guinness) - Ffoulkes
Codd's Last Case (1952 Methuen)
Full Enjoyment (1952 Methuen)
Pools Pilot or Why Not You ? (1953 Methuen)
The Right to Marry (1954 Methuen)
No Fine on Fun (1957 Methuen)
Made for Man (1958 Methuen)
"I Object ....Letters to the Electors of East Harrow (1959 BH)
Look Back and Laugh (1960 Methuen 16/-)
Public Lending Rights : Authors, Publishers and Libraries (1960 Soc of Authors)
Anything but Action ? (1960 Hobart Paper 5)

After 1961
Silver Stream (1962 Methuen)
Libraries - Free for All ? (1962 Hobart Paper)
Barbican Regained (1963 Whitbread)
Bardot MP (1964)
Watch this Space ... (1964 Methuen)
Wigs at Work (1966 Penguin)
The Thames (1966 Weidenfeld & Nicolson)
Sundials Old and New, or Fun with the Sun (1967 Methuen)
The Singing Swan (1968 Methuen)
In the Dark (1970 Bodley Head)
APH, His Life and Times (1970 Heinemann 63/-)

READING
Gilbert H Fabes : The First Editions of A E Coppard, A P Herbert & Charles Morgan (1933 Myers)