Researching Derrick Leon
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 161 people with the Leon surname? In that year Leon was ranked number 3418 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Derrick means "Form of DEREK - ruler" and is of Teutonic origin.
Records of Derrick Leon on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Derrick Leon and the Leon Genealogy
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| Did you know that there are currently 672 people with the Leon surname in the UK? Leon is now ranked number 3407 for popularity in the UK. |
Leon Genealogy Databases
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| Did you know that there are currently 54688 people with the Leon surname in the USA? Leon is ranked number 139 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Derrick Leon
Derrick Leon
Derrick Lewis Leon (1908–1944) was a British author, who was born in London in 1908, and died of tuberculosis in November 1944, aged 36, shortly after completing the first draft of his biography of John Ruskin (Ruskin: The Great Victorian), published by Routledge & Kegan Paul in 1949.
Leon made his living as an interior decorator, but by the time of his death, he had earned himself a reputation as a fine biographer, with works on Leo Tolstoy and Marcel Proust. Leon had also published three novels before his death. The first one, Livingstones; A Novel of Contemporary Life was published in 1933; Wilderness was published in 1935; and Green for a Season was published in 1938.
His biography of Ruskin cast new light on John Ruskin's personal tragedies, as well as his public life and his work. After Leon's death, his biography of Ruskin was subjected to a quotation check and grammatical corrections by George Leon, his brother, who was a quantity-surveyor by profession.
Category:20th-century British male writersCategory:1908 birthsCategory:1944 deathsCategory:20th-century deaths from tuberculosisCategory:Tuberculosis deaths in EnglandCategory:20th-century British novelistsCategory:British male novelistsCategory:British biographers
Source: Derrick Leon, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Leon
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