10 Facts About Gerald Brenan

Gerald Brenan was appointed CBE in the Diplomatic Service and Overseas List of 1982.

Gerald Brenan was born in Malta into a well-off Anglo-Irish family, while his father was serving there in the British Army.

Gerald Brenan was educated at Radley, a boarding school in England, which he hated due to the bullying he endured.

Gerald Brenan spent the next ten months in Germany, learning the language, surprisingly in preparation for joining the Indian Police Service, but this plan was interrupted by the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914.

Gerald Brenan immediately joined the British Army and served in France throughout the war.

Gerald Brenan spent his time catching up on the education which he felt he had missed by not attending university, and in writing.

Gerald Brenan was permitted to return to Spain in 1949 despite holding views which were critical of Franco's regime.

Gerald Brenan spent most of the remainder of his life in Churriana near Malaga and after Woolsey's death, in Alhaurin el Grande, Malaga.

In 1984 Gerald Brenan was moved to a nursing home in Pinner, Middlesex.

Gerald Brenan left uncompleted a work on Spanish poetry which was published posthumously as La Copla Popular Espanola.