Peter Courtney Quennell (1905-1993), biographer, literary historian, editor, essayist, poet, and critic.
He also has produced and directed a documentary about English literary society during the period after World War I until World War II, which includes Stephen Spender, Anthony Powell, Harold Acton, James Lees-Milne, Peter Quennell, Christopher Isherwood, and Diana Mosley.
:'Darling Nancy, ...It was heaven to get home, to walk into White's and find Sykes & Dunne & Stavordale all drunk & eating grouse, and to hear a member of committee say that Quennell had 'not a hope in hell' of election.
Connolly dedicated the book to Peter Quennell, who had been at Balliol College with him and who wrote the introduction to the 1981 reprint.
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He was the husband of Marjorie Quennell whom he met in 1903 at the Junior Art Worker's Guild and father of Peter Quennell.
The founding co-editors were Peter Quennell (1951–79) and Alan Hodge (1951–78); subsequent editors were Michael Crowder (1979–81); Michael Trend (1981–82); Juliet Gardiner (1981–85); Gordon Marsden (1985–97) and Peter Furtado (1997–2008).