About Francis Prevost
Lived 1862 – 1949 (aged 86–87). Francis Prevost was a British poet.
Harry Francis Prevost Battersby (18621949) most well known as H. F. P. Battersby was a poet, novelist journalist and psychical researcher, who published under the name Francis Prevost.
Biography Battersby was born in 1862, the son of a major-general. He graduated with distinction from the Royal Military College at Sandhurst and initially joined the Royal Irish Rifles before moving into journalism. He served as the Boer War correspondent for the Morning Post. In 1909, he married Frances Muriel Saunders. He saw active service again during the First World War.
Works
Poems Melilot (1886) Fires of Greenwood (1887)
Novels and short fiction Rust of Gold (1895) The Avenging Hour (1896) False Dawn (1897) In The Web of War (1900) non fiction The Plague of the Heart (1902)
Plays The Way of War (1902) Voice of Duty (1904)
Translator Tolstoi's Christ's Christianity and What to Do
Parapsychology Psychic Certainties (1930) Man Outside Himself (1942)
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Who was Francis Prevost?
British writer
When was Francis Prevost born?
Francis Prevost was born in 1862.
When did Francis Prevost die?
Francis Prevost died in 1949.
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Francis Prevost was a poet.
What nationality was Francis Prevost?
Francis Prevost was British.
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