Roy Fuller
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Roy Broadbent Fuller CBE was an English writer, known mostly as a poet. He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire to lower-middle-class parents Leopold Charles Fuller and his wife Nellie , whose father was clerk to a workhouse master. His father, born at Fulham in 1884, was the illegitimate son of Minnie Augusta Fuller , daughter of a Soham police constable, Richard Fuller. Orphaned and subsequently raised with his elder sister, Minnie at Caithness, Leopold worked his way up to the position of works manager of a rubber-proofing mill at Hollinwood, Greater Manchester, dying in 1920.