Herbert Edward Read

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Herbert Edward Read

Also Known As: ""Uncle H""
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Birthplace: Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
Death: June 12, 1968 (74)
Stonegrave, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Husband of Evelyn Read and Margaret Read
Father of John Read; Private; Private; Private and Private

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About Herbert Edward Read

Sir Herbert Edward Read, DSO, MC (1893–1968) was an English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art. He was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism, and was strongly influenced by proto-existentialist thinker Max Stirner.

He was the son of a farmer, born at Muscoates near Nunnington in the North Riding of Yorkshire. His studies at the University of Leeds were interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War, during which he served with the Green Howards in France. He received the Military Cross and the Distinguished Service Order, and reached the rank of captain. During the war, Read founded the journal Arts and Letters with Frank Rutter, one of the first literary periodicals to publish work by T. S. Eliot.

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Herbert Edward Read's Timeline

1893
December 4, 1893
Kirkbymoorside, North Yorkshire, England (United Kingdom)
1923
January 7, 1923
1968
June 12, 1968
Age 74
Stonegrave, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom