E.E.P. Tisdall
British journalist, schoolmaster and biographer
About E.E.P. Tisdall
Lived 1907 – 1977 (aged 69–70). E.E.P. Tisdall was a biographer, head teacher and journalist.
Evelyn Ernest Percy Tisdall (1907–1977) was a British journalist and schoolmaster and writer. He is best known as a writer of biographies.
Tisdall was educated at Sherborne and Sandhurst and then became a Fleet Street journalist. before turning to biography, mostly of British and European royalty. He served in the army during the Second World War, after which he became headmaster of Dennington House School, near Barnstaple. His royal books sold well on publication, but are now regarded as 'slightly sensational' and 'slightly hostile'.
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Who was E.E.P. Tisdall?
British journalist, schoolmaster and biographer
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E.E.P. Tisdall was born in 1907.
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E.E.P. Tisdall died in 1977.
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E.E.P. Tisdall was a biographer, head teacher and journalist.
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