J.P. Martin

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J.P. Martin (1880-1966) was an English author best known for his Uncle series of children's stories.

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1880 - 1966 - English

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Martin was born in Scarborough in the English county of Yorkshire and became a Methodist minister in 1902 before serving as a missionary in South Africa and as an army chaplain in Palestine during the First World War. After the Second World War he lived in the village of Timberscombe in Somerset, where he died in 1966.

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Scarborough - English - County - Yorkshire - Methodist - 1902 - Missionary - South Africa - Palestine - First World War - Second World War - Timberscombe - Somerset - 1966

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