![]() He took a doctorate in philosophy at Liverpool University in 1925. ![]() His service with the Quaker-funded Friends' Ambulance Unit in World War One, for which he received the Croix de Guerre, helped him formulate his pacifism and also provided material for Last Men in London ( 1932). ![]() There is scattered evidence that the international flavour of Port Said influenced his complex ideas about "true community". After studying at Balliol College, Oxford, he worked for a short period without enthusiasm in the family shipping office in Port Said, an experience he used in his highly autobiographical last novel, A Man Divided ( 1950). The name Olaf does not indicate foreign antecedents: his parents had been reading Carlyle's The Early Kings of Norway (coll 1875) when he was born. In Waking World ( 1934) he admitted that he lived "chiefly on dividends and other ill-gotten gains". ![]() (1886-1950) UK author and philosopher, born in the Wirral peninsula near Liverpool, where he spent the greater part of his life. ![]()
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