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	Born in the borough (when in Surrey) Ford Madox Ford wrote what is seen as one of the best books set during World War One, his tetralogy Parade's End. The four books were published between 1924 and 1928 and in 1950 as a single volume. The book follows Christopher Tietjens as his safe, ordered and privileged life in England descends into the chaos and destruction of the Western Front.	PARADE'S END by Ford Madox Ford (1950)

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The County of London was formed in 1889 from parts of the ancient counties of Middlesex, Kent and Surrey, with the City of London remaining an independent body.

In 1965 Greater London was formed, taking in the rest of Middlesex (which no longer existed as a county) together with parts of Essex and Hertfordshire and further areas of Kent and Surrey.

Greater London is made up of 13 Inner and 19 Outer London boroughs together with the City of London.

Merton once lay in Surrey and is today one of the 19 boroughs making up Outer London. The London borough of Wandsworth borders to its north.

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Prime Minister in 1765-66 and 1782, Charles Wentworth, the Marquess of Rockingham died in Wimbledon (then in Surrey) in 1782 whilst still in office.

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The writer Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon in 1895. He died in 1985 in Deiá on the island of Majorca where he had lived - except during the Second World War - since 1931 and is buried in the village.

Robert Graves

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His eyes are quickened so with grief,
He can watch a grass or leaf
Every instant grow; he can
Clearly through a flint wall see,
Or watch the startled spirit flee
From the throat of a dead man.
Lost Love (1921)

The writer and editor Ford Madox Ford was born as Ford Hermann Hueffer in Wimbledon (then in Surrey) in 1873. His most famous novel, The Good Soldier, was published in 1915. He fought in the First World War (in the same regiment as Robert Graves) during which he was gassed and suffered shell-shock.

He used his experiences to write a tetralogy of novels and one of the best depictions of World War One: Some Do Not (1924), No More Parades (1925), A Man Could Stand Up (1926), and Last Post (1928) which were later published together as Parade's End (1950).

Ford Madox Ford

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