Married Bettina m Timberlake in 1946 Kensington London From the Biographical notes in his book " African Notes & Other Poems" Anglo-Hellenic Publishing, 1974, 'Gilbert Crawford Horobin was born in Scotland but was educated mainly in England. He has been a solicitor's clerk, a tea merchant, a soldier - serving with a Commando unit he was taken prisoner at the fall of Crete - and a business executive. As a playwright, several of his plays have been produced in arts theatres in London, and he was associated with other poets at the Mercury Theatre, Notting Hill Gate, where his first verse plays were accepted for production. He lived and worked in Turkey for six years, and then spent three years living and writing on the Greek island of Mytilini (Lesbos). He is now resident in Athens but spends a good part of each year travelling in Africa, the Middle East, India and the Far East in connexion with the publication of travel handbooks.'
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