John Stanier Waller

1917 - 1995

John Waller (Sir John Stanier Waller - 7th Baronet) was born 27 July 1917. Educated at Weymouth College and Worcester College, Oxford. Author, poet and journalist. Founder-Editor of magazine, Kingdom Come; first new literary magazine of war (1939-1941). Served with RASC in the Middle East (1941-1946) A founder-member of the Salamander Oasis Trust. Lecturer and tutor in English. Information Officer in various places abroad. Editor of anthologies and the autobiography of Keith Douglas.