Giles king-smith
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Dick Smith (businessman)
Australian aviator and entrepreneur
Richard Harold SmithAC FRSA (born 18 March 1944) is an Australian entrepreneur and aviator.[1] He is the founder of Dick Smith Electronics, Australian Geographic and Dick Smith Foods. Smith has had a long interest in aviation and holds a number of world records in the field. A major philanthropist, he supports a number of charities and conservation efforts.
In 2015, he was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia.[3] He is a fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry.[4]
Early life
Smith's father was a salesman and sometime manager at Angus & Robertson's bookstore. He started a business that failed when Smith was 17.[5] His mother was a housewife and his maternal grandfather pictorialist photographer Harold Cazneaux.[6]
As a child, he encountered serious academic difficulties, and having a speech defect, called himself "Dick Miff".[7] From his home in East Roseville, Smith attended primary school at Roseville Public School
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Dick King-Smith
Dick King-Smith (1922 – 2011)
Where and when born: Dick King-Smith was born Ronald Gordon King-Smith in the town of Bitton in Gloucestershire in the West Country of England in March 1922. His family owned several papermills, so he had a very comfortable and happy childhood. He loved animals as a child, and used to play endlessly with a toy farm which included rather odd farm animals such as a giraffe! Dick went to a prep school called Beaudesert Park School, then the famous Marlborough College. As a result of his upbringing, all his life he was known as a “country gentleman with perfect manners”.
Why and when he began writing:
Dick King-Smith was another Amazing Author who didn’t start writing his children’s books till he’d done a lot of living! After leaving school, World War Two had broken out, so he first became a soldier, serving with the Grenadier Guards in Italy before being hit by a grenade, which so badly injured him that he missed the rest of the war. He then followed his childhood dreams by trainin
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Dick King-Smith
English writer of children's books (1922–2011)
Ronald Gordon King-SmithOBE (27 March 1922 – 4 January 2011)[1] was an English writer of children's books, primarily using the pen name Dick King-Smith. He is best known for The Sheep-Pig (1983). It was adapted as the movie Babe (1995) and translations have been published in fifteen languages.[2] He was awarded an Honorary Master of Education degree by the University of the West of England in 1999[3] and appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.[4][5]
Early life, military service
King-Smith was born on 27 March 1922 in Bitton, Gloucestershire and grew up in the West Country. His father was Captain Ronald King-Smith DSOMC, who ran several paper mills. King-Smith was educated at Beaudesert Park School and Marlborough College.[1] He was a soldier in World War II, serving with the Grenadier Guards in Italy, and a farmer for 20 years before he became a teacher at Farmborough Primary School and aut
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