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Name: DE POLNAY, Peter

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Nee: Peter de Polnay de Teszully

Birth Date: 8 Mar 1906 Budapest, Hungary

Death Date: 21 Nov 1984 Paris

First Date: 1931

Last Date: 1934

Profession: Novelist, chicken farmer

Area: Rumuruti

Married: 1. In Holborn 1942 Margaret Parkinson Smith née Mitchell Banks b. 18 Feb 1913 Epsom, d. 21 June 1950 Hull (prev. m. to Ronald William Norman Parkinson Smith, the photographer Norman Parkinson 1913-1990); 2. In Pancras, London 1952 Elaine Daphne Tasker née Taylor b. 1921, d. 10 Oct 1958 Holborn); 3. Carmen Rubio y Caparo b. 10 July 1914 Barcelona, d. 2002 Kingston upon Thames

Children: 1. Gregory (1943)

Author: 'The Stuffed Dog' and many other novels

Book Reference: Polnay, Hut

War Service: Royal Pioneer Corps

School: Privately in England, Switzerland and Italy

General Information:

See Wikipedia for his career and books

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