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John Beevers

John Beevers was born in 1911 in Yorkshire. He received his MA from Queens College in Cambridge in 1933, and began an extensive career in journalism, working with the BBC from 1941 to 1969. Although he privately wrote fiction and poetry, printing a volume of poems under the pseudonym John Clayton, he is best known for his biographies of Roman Catholic saints. He died in 1975.

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