| AdminHistory | Walter John De La Mare [1873-1956] was a poet and writer. He was a chorister boy at St Paul's Cathedral, before taking up a position in the statistics department of the Anglo-American Oil Company. De La Mare published over a thousand poems and rhymes, including 'Songs of Childhood', alongside novels such as 'Henry Brocken' and 'The Return' and short stories. His novel 'Memoirs of a Midget' received the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction in 1921 and his 'Collected Stories for Children' won the Carnegie Medal in 1947. He married Elfrida Igpen in 1899 and had four children: Richard, Colin, Florence and Lucy. |