Terence Ian Fytton Armstrong (29 June 1912 - 23 September 1970), better known as John Gawsworth (and also sometimes known as T. I. F. Armstrong), was a British writer, poet and compiler of anthologies, both of poetry and of short stories. He also used the pseudonym Orpheus Scrannel (alludes to Milton's Lycidas). He was crowned the king of Redonda in 1947 and became known as King Juan I.
Read more about John Gawsworth: Early Life, Career, Poets in Known Signatures (1932), Poets in Edwardian Poets (1936)
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