The French marshal and colonial administrator Louis Hubert Gonzalve Lyautey (1854-1934) is famed for the pacification and colonization of Morocco. On Nov. 17, 1854, L. H. G. Lyautey was born at Nancy to a family with strong military traditions. He was...

Hubert Lansley's writing was eagerly looked for every month in the late 1920s by the many thousands of intelligent boys (and a few girls) who were "hooked" on the Meccano hobby. In his articles in Meccano Magazine he showed new ways of using all...

Hubert Nicholson was a writer who spent most of his final years restricted by diabetes to an armchair but still actively exploring the subtleties of English language and literature. Surrounded by his books, including a shelf-ful of his own works, he would greet visitors...