Gillian Tindall is a British writer. Among her better-known works are City of Gold: Biography of Bombay and Celestine: Voices from a French Village. Her novel Fly Away Home won the Somerset Maugham Award in 1972. Since the 1970s she has lived in Kentish Town, in North London. Her book The Fields Beneath is about the history of the area. Tindall's book The House by the Thames is about the house built at 49 Bankside in London in 1710 and the buildings that preceded it on the site. The house has served as a home for coal merchants, an office, a boarding house, a hangout for derelicts and once again as a private residence in the 1900s. It has been erroneousely assumed to be where Sir Christopher Wren resided during the construction of St Paul's Cathedral, and other presumed residents of older buildings on the site include Catherine of Aragon and William Shakespeare. Another of Tindall's works, "The Journey of Martin Nadaud. [More at Wikipedia]

January 1st, 1938 in London (Age 86)