10 Facts About Ronald Duncan

Ronald Duncan became a pacifist during the 1930s, publishing The Complete Pacifist in 1936.

Ronald Duncan's pacifism led him to set up a co-operative farming enterprise at Gooseham and Mead Farm, near Welcombe, Devon, during the Second World War, but it failed by 1943, and in 1944 Duncan successfully faced a conscientious objection tribunal.

Ronald Duncan was a writer of short stories and a journalist.

Ronald Duncan's poetry was published at Faber and Faber by T S Eliot, who became a friend.

In 1964 Ronald Duncan published All Men are Islands, the first of a series of lively and sometimes contentious and contradictory autobiographies.

Ronald Duncan was instrumental in setting up and naming the English Stage Company at London's Royal Court Theatre, which opened in 1956.

Ronald Duncan was a member of a family of successful architects and engineers including Joseph Hansom the inventor of the eponymous horse-drawn cab.

Ronald Duncan died in Bideford hospital, Barnstaple, Devon, England, on 3 June 1982.

Ronald Duncan was a keen horseman and breeder of Arabian Horses on his farm in Devon.

Ronald Duncan was co-promotor along with his friend Michael Ansell of one the UK's oldest long distance equestrian competitions, the Golden Horseshoe, created by the British Horse Society in 1965.