The term Midlands is not very descriptive when applied to those counties in central England whose towns and cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries were outgrowths of the Industrial Revolution. Yet this same territory also makes up some of the...
H. E. Bates was one of the most prolific English writers of his generation. From 1926 to 1972 he published, on average, more than one book of fiction a year as well as many nonfiction and juvenile works. He is best known for the power of his...
Herbert Ernest Bates, CBE, who published under the pen name, H. E. Bates (May 16 1905 - January 29 1974), was an English writer and author. His most well-known works include Love for Lydia, The Darling Buds of May, and My Uncle...
H. Burton Bates Jr., 85, a retired certified public accountant, died May 16 at the Virginian retirement home in Fairfax. Mr. Bates was born in Washington and graduated from Washington- Lee High School in 1939 as student body president. He served in the...
A.E. Griffith Bates Jr., 77, a former systems analyst for the Defense Mapping Agency and a longtime volunteer for Greenpeace, died of pulmonary fibrosis Jan. 1 at the Community Hospice of Washington. Mr. Bates logged more than 25,000 hours of volunteer work with...
