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John Percival Martin (1879 – 24 March 1966) was an English author best known for his Uncle series of children's stories. Life. Martin was the son of John Martin, a Wesleyan Methodist minister, and his wife Ellen Fowler, daughter of the Rev. Philip Fowler, another Wesleyan, and his wife Mary.
Dec 1, 2013 · The complete set of Uncle books, by J.P Martin and illustrated by Sir Quentin Blake, has being re-published in a deluxe high-quality hardback, with a wealth of extra material – including articles by Neil Gaiman, Will Self, and Kate Summerscale.
Jan 28, 2018 · J.P. Martin: Father of Uncle, including the Unpublished Uncle. Troubador Publishing Ltd, Jan 28, 2018 - Juvenile Nonfiction - 200 pages. The much-loved UNCLE series of children's books by JP...
Uncle (Uncle, #1), Uncle Cleans Up, Uncle And His Detective, Uncle And The Battle For Badgertown, Uncle and the Treacle Trouble, and Uncle and Claudius ...
Aug 22, 2017 · If you think Babar is the only storybook elephant with a cult following, then you haven’t met Uncle, the presiding pachyderm of a wild fictional universe that has been collecting...
J.P.Martin was born in Scarborough in 1879. He became a Methodist minister in 1902 and served as a missionary in South Africa and as an army chaplain in Palestine in 1918 at the time when Allenby and T.E. Lawrence overwhelmed the Turks.
Jul 28, 2002 · Biographical. Archer John Porter Martin was born on March 1st, 1910, in London where his father was a general medical practitioner. He attended Bedford School from 1921 to 1929 when he entered Cambridge University to graduate in 1932.
