![]() ![]() ![]() Crompton graduated in 1914 with a BA honours degree in Classics (II class). In order to further her chosen career as a schoolteacher, she won a scholarship to Royal Holloway College part of the University of London in Englefield Green, Surrey. She later moved with the school to a new location in Darley Dale, near Matlock, Derbyshire in 1904. Richmal Crompton attended St Elphin’s boarding school for the daughters of the clergy, originally based in Warrington, Lancashire. Her brother, John Battersby Crompton Lamburn, also became a writer, remembered under the name John Lambourne for his fantasy novel The Kingdom That Was (1931) and under the name "John Crompton" for his books on natural history. Edward John Sewell Lamburn, a Classics master at Bury Grammar School and his wife Clara (née Crompton). Richmal Crompton Lamburn was born in Bury, Lancashire, the second child of the Rev. Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was initially trained as a schoolmistress but later became a popular English writer, famous for her many Just William humorous short stories, and to a lesser extent adult fiction books. ![]()
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