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Vera Bax, Filson Young,
Stanley North, and their sons
 
My grandmother, Vera Bax, lost two sons in the Second World
War and her poems about them have recently been republished in anthologies.
Read the story of her life, about her sons - and her poetry.
The poet and painter Vera Bax [Picture] was married three times before
she was fifty, and in the first 40 years of the last century.. First,
to Stanley Kennedy North [Picture], Keeper of the King’s paintings,
art restorer and illustrator [Picture], and my grandfather, by whom
she had one son, my father Paul.
Second, to the writer, broadcaster and journalist Filson Young [Picture]
(he was always known to intimates only by the first part of his surname),
by whom she had Billy and Richard. Read here the introduction to a
forthcoming biography, RDN's account of FY's importance and a timeline
of his hugely productive career.
And third, to Clifford Bax, the writer brother of composer Arnold
Bax.
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