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Louis MacNeice

Died in 1963

Louis MacNeice was born in 1907 in Belfast, the son of a Church of Ireland clergyman who became a bishop, and lost his mother at the age of seven. He studied classics at Oxford, taught in Birmingham and then in London, and in 1941 joined the British public radio service, where he worked for more than twenty years, writing features and verse plays. He died in 1963, aged fifty-five, of pneumonia contracted in a Yorkshire cave, where he was recording sounds for a play.

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