Researching David Watmough
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The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Watmough on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Watmough and the Watmough Family Tree
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Watmough Family History Databases
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Watmough Forums
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Some Famous People called David Watmough
David Watmough
David Arthur Watmough (August 17, 1926 - August 4, 2017) was a Canadian playwright, short story writer and novelist.
Watmough was born in London, England, and attended King's College London. He has worked as a reporter (the Cornish Guardian, a 'Talks Producer' (BBC Third Programme) and an editor (Ace Books). He immigrated to Canada in 1960, to Kitsilano in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he lived for 40 years with his partner, ex-Californian Floyd St. Clair (1930–2009), an opera critic and, from 1963 till his retirement in 1996, a University of British Columbia French professor. He became a Canadian citizen in 1967.
Watmough lived from 2004 to 2009 in Boundary Bay and before his death had been living at Crofton Manor, a Vancouver assisted-living facility.
In 2008 he published his autobiography, "Myself Through Others: Memoirs".
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