Robert Graves (1895-1985)

was born in Wimbledon to Alfred and Amy

Graves,the daughter of Prof. Heinrich von Ranke

The Women’s Social and Political Union was founded

by Emmeline Pankhurst in 1903 (Manchester rally, 1908)

British suffragist poster, ca. 1906

Emmeline Pankhurst arrested

outside Buckingham

Palace and in prison dress (1910)

The WSPU shifted to militant tactics in 1910, as did many trade unionists, plus Irish Protestants opposed to Home Rule for Ireland….

With little training, Lieutenant Graves was

posted to theRoyal Welch Fusiliers, a regiment founded in

1689

British Army recruitment

poster, c. 1905

THE ISSUE OF BELGIUM

British survivors of the First Cameronian Regiment, photographed after the First Battle of Ypres,

November 1914

Flooded trenches at Laventie, near Ypres,in December 1915

In 1918 Graves married the

militant feminist Nancy Nicholson and joined the Labour Party

David Lloyd George won the “Khaki Election” in Dec 1918

Ramsay MacDonald,P.M., 1924, 1929-35

Sir Herbert Samuel,

first Commissioner-

General of Palestine,in Amman,

Jordan, with T.E. Lawrence and Emir Abdullah,

April 1921

Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)

Author of:Far from the Madding Crowd,The Return of the Native,The Mayor of Casterbridge,Tess of the d’Urbervilles,Jude the Obscure.

THE PEACE SETTLEMENT IN THE MIDDLE EAST, 1922

Robert Graves in Majorca, 1935(he had just published the best-seller, I, Claudius)