C. Northcote Parkinson biography at QuotationFun

A Short Biography of C. Northcote Parkinson

Author Name:

C. Northcote Parkinson

Born As:

Cyril Northcote Parkinson

Other Names:

Born:

30 Jul 1909

Died:

09 Mar 1993




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Historian and writer                          
Selected woks:

Naval novel series - the Richard Delancey series:

The Devil to Pay - 1973
The Fireship - 1975
Touch and Go - 1977
Dead Reckoning - 1978
So Near, So Far - 1981
The Guernseyman - 1982

Other nautical fiction:

Manhunt - 1990

Other fiction:

Ponies Plot - 1965
Biographies of fictional characters:

The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower - 1970
Jeeves: A Gentleman's Personal Gentleman - 1979

Naval history:

Edward Pellew, Viscount Exmouth - 1934
The Trade Winds, Trade in the French Wars 1793-1815 - 1948
Samuel Walters, Lieut. RN - 1949
Trade in the Eastern Seas - 1955
British Intervention in Malaya, 1867-1877 - 1960
Britannia Rules - 1977
A Short History of the British Navy, 1776-1816
Portsmouth Point, The Navy in Fiction, 1793-1815 - 1948

Other non-fiction:

Parkinson's Law - 1957
The Evolution of Political Thought - 1958
The Law and the Profits - 1960
In-Laws and Outlaws - 1962
East and West - 1963
Parkinsanities - 1965
Left Luggage - 1967
Mrs. Parkinson's Law - 1968
The Law of Delay - 1970
The fur-lined mousetrap - 1972
The Defenders, Script for a "Son et Lumière" in Guernsey - 1975
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot - 1978

Audio recordings:
Discusses Political Science with Julian H. Franklin - 10 LPs - 1959.                          
Mother Rose Emily Mary Curnow
Father William Edward Parkinson
First wife  Ethelwyn Edith Graves, two children - divorced.
Second wife Ann Fry, three children - wife died.
Third wife Iris Hilda Waters.