Quote of the day
There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.
Ernest Benn

Born: June 25, 1875
Died: January 17, 1954 (aged 78)
Bio: Sir Ernest John Pickstone Benn, 2nd Baronet was a British publisher, writer and political publicist. His father, John Benn, was a politician, who had been made a baronet in 1914. He was an uncle of the Labour politician Tony Benn.






