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Robert Barnard was born on 23 November 1936 at Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex.He was educated at the Colchester Royal Grammar School and at Balliol College, Oxford.. He spent five years (1961-1965) as an academic in the English Department at the University of New England, at Armidale, New South Wales, in Australia.
Robert Barnard: "This village murder begins among the rural proletariat (cf. Death by Drowning in The Thirteen Problems and the excellent London working-class woman in The Hollow), but after a time it moves toward the better-spoken classes. Poirot suffers in a vividly awful country guesthouse in order to get in with the community and rescue a ...
In 1859, she married army officer Robert Cary Barnard, who was the son of an old friend of her father's. [4] [7] They had eight children. [1] [8] Barnard's father was one of the first Cambridge University professors to give illustrated lectures, for which he used poster-size illustrations.
Bernard Courtois (also spelled Barnard Courtois), (1777–1838), French chemist; Barnard E. Bee Sr. (1787–1853), early settler and political leader in the Republic of Texas; Barnard Elliott Bee Jr. (1824–1861), Confederate Army general during the American Civil War; Barnard Pananasky, a pseudonym of Gary Morgan (actor)
Virginia Travis (1930), first wife of Robert Johnson; the biological mother of Richard Davis (1930) Clare Collins (1930), first wife of Ernest McFarland; Margery Latimer (1932), writer and first wife of Jean Toomer; Nettie Harper (1932), first wife of Thomas A. Dorsey; Caletta Craft (1932), second and last wife of Robert Johnson; the mother of ...
Death by Sheer Torture (1981), also known simply as Sheer Torture, is a mystery novel by English writer Robert Barnard, [1] the first of five novels, penned in the 1980s, featuring his recurring detective character Perry Trethowan.
Robert Graeme Barnard [2] was born on 24 November 1933 in Melbourne. [3] [4] Barnard's parents had formed a dance band in the 1920s, his mother Kath (died April 1981) was the bandleader and pianist, his father Jim Barnard (died November 1983) was on saxophone, drums and banjo. [3] [5] His older brother, Len (1929–2005), joined them on drums ...
Bob Barnard may refer to: Robert Barnard (1936–2013), English crime writer, critic and lecturer Bob Barnard (musician) (1933–2022), Australian trumpet and cornet player