Swingler , Randall Carline , 1909-1967 , writer Rickword , John Edgell , 1898-1982 , poet and book reviewer x Rickword , Edgell
Moore , Thomas Sturge , 1870-1944 , writer and wood engraver x Sturge Moore , Thomas

Swingler , Randall Carline , 1909-1967 , writer Rickword , John Edgell , 1898-1982 , poet and book reviewer x Rickword , Edgell
Moore , Thomas Sturge , 1870-1944 , writer and wood engraver x Sturge Moore , Thomas

Randall Carline Swingler was born at Aldershot, Hampshire in 1909. He was educated at Winchester College and at New College, Oxford. He was a poet, prose author and journalist, as a well as a flautist to professional standard. A member of the Communist Party, he also edited the Left Review and wrote for the Daily Worker.

John Edgell Rickword was born in Colchester in 1898. He was educated at Colchester Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford. He became known as a poet and literary journalist in the early 1920s. Commited to left-wing politics, Rickword joined the Communist Party in 1934 and founded the Left Review the same year. In the late 1940s he developed a new career as a bookseller. Rickword left the Communist Party following the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956 but continued to regard himself as a Marxist.