Our Family History - Person Sheet
Our Family History - Person Sheet
NameJoyce Anne Compton 
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414Birth Date30 Dec 1908
Birth Place?
Death Date10 Jan 1996
Death PlaceEngland, Surrey, Hove
Spouses
Birth Date1908
Birth PlaceMalaysia, Sarawak, Kuching
MemoBritish by Naturalisation.
Death Date15 Jul 1967
Death PlaceEngland, London, South Marylebone
EducationIrish College in Gibraltar
OccupationAuthor, journalist and Translator
FatherEmil Friedrich Pumpin (1873-1911)
MotherEdith (Edie) Marks (1876-1942)
Marr DateJun 1963
Marr PlaceEngland, London, Paddington
Notes for John Hugo Edgar Puempin (Spouse 1)
John Hugo Puempin Marks, who wrote under the name John H. P. Marks was a British journalist and translator from French and Spanish, the first to translate works by Céline into English.
Marks was educated at the Irish College in Gibraltar, the French lycée in Madrid, Aldenham School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1] Marks, an aficionado of bull-fighting, was a journalist for The Times and the BBC.[2] In the 1930s he edited Night and Day with Graham Greene, until a libel action ended the journal in 1937.[3] At one point he worked as night editor for United Press International in Lisbon.[4]
References
1 'Mr John Marks', The Times, 19 July 1967
2 Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Hemingway and the mechanism of fame, 2006, p.145
3 Adam international review, Volume 46 (1984), p.45
4 Chambers's encyclopaedia, Volume 2, 1973, p.xiii
Marks was educated at the Irish College in Gibraltar, the French lycée in Madrid, Aldenham School and Magdalene College, Cambridge.[1] Marks, an aficionado of bull-fighting, was a journalist for The Times and the BBC.[2] In the 1930s he edited Night and Day with Graham Greene, until a libel action ended the journal in 1937.[3] At one point he worked as night editor for United Press International in Lisbon.[4]
References
1 'Mr John Marks', The Times, 19 July 1967
2 Matthew Joseph Bruccoli, Hemingway and the mechanism of fame, 2006, p.145
3 Adam international review, Volume 46 (1984), p.45
4 Chambers's encyclopaedia, Volume 2, 1973, p.xiii