Robert Henriques
Robert David Quixano Henriques (11 December 1905 – 22 January 1967) was a British writer, broadcaster and farmer. He gained modest renown for two award-winning novels and two biographies of
Life and career
Robert Henriques was born in 1905 to one of the oldest
His book No Arms, No Armour (1939) came out to considerable critical praise. Much of the novel was autobiographical.
When World War II broke out, Henriques was an officer in the
After the war, Henriques began a new life as a farmer in the Cotswolds. Starting from rather modest beginnings, his farm near Cirencester became a large and impressive operation. Henriques had outstanding success as a cattle-breeder and won competitions. He lived the life of a country squire, carrying on hunting, fishing and shooting, and even writing occasional letters to the Times on farming issues.
Writing remained his first love, however, and in 1950 he became a recipient of the annual
The following year, he wrote 100 Hours to Suez, and it was around this time, in his late forties, that Henriques began to take an active interest and pride in his Jewish identity. He was won over by the
In the 1960s, Henriques wrote two biographies. The first one charted the life and career of his wife's grandfather Marcus Samuel, the great oil pioneer and leader of the Jewish community, and the second one described the life of Sir Robert Waley Cohen.
In 1928 he married Vivien Doris Levy, daughter of
See also
Notes
- ^ Debrett's 1951 gives the names of his two sons and two daughters as:
The quote is from the discussion thread "Katrina Hicks Beach" posted on the Usenet group alt.talk.royalty, in messages posted by Michael Rhodes on 20 June 2004, and Barry Noonan on 22 June 2004.Hon. Nellie Samuel, born 1883; married 1st, 1903, Maj. Walter Henry Levy (died 1923) [she remarried a __ Ionides and died 1962), and had (inter alia)
Vivien Levy; married 1928, Col. Robert David Quixano Henriques, MBE, and had
1. David Vivian Quixano Henriques, born 1929.
2. Michael Robert Quixano Henriques, born 1941. 3. Veronica Esme Henriques, born 1931.
4. Penelope Jane Henriques, born 1945.
- ^ Per a family genealogy website and Debrett's 1951, his year of birth is given as 1941.