Category: Biographies
Jean Dallas – A French Childhood
Jean Aristides Dellas(Dallas) was born in Bordeaux, France in 1827 to Jane Deval and John Dellas. John was a captain in the French army. They had a daughter, Jeanne Marie Eudoxie Duval, in 1830. She grew up to marry the 10th Earl of Lindsay, John […]
David Brown Low
The following extracts are from Low’s Autobiography, written by his son, the cartoonist Sir David Low. THE MAN “If I were asked to stock-take the better qualities of my inheritance, and their sources, I should say my father (is represented in me) by the optimism, […]