| AdminHistory | Major Francis Charles Claypon Yeats-Brown [1886-1944] was an officer and author. His memoir 'The Lives of a Bengal Lancer' won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1930. Yeats-Brown served as a member of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War, and was held as a prisoner of war for two years. He served in the Indian Army from 1919 to 1924, before taking up the position of assistant editor of the Spectator from 1924 to 1928. Yeats-Brown became involved in right-wing politics in the 1930s, joining both the January Club and the Right Club, and writing newspaper articles praising Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler. |