GeoffreyWillans [1921-1958] a British author and journalist, is best known as the co-creator, with the illustrator Ronald Searle, of Nigel Molesworth, the "curse of st custard's".
Molesworth first appeared in Punch in the 1940s and was the chief protagonist and narrator of four books, beginning with 1953's Down with Skool.
Willans co-wrote the screenplay for the 1959 movie The Bridal Path, which starred George Cole, but died at the age of 37 before the film was released.
One is "My Uncle Harry," a wildly probably memoir of a dauntless Edwardian by GeoffreyWillans.
Willans' Uncle Harry returned to the diplomatic life he once abandoned at the request of his country for his country's good, he would run into familiar gaggles of Mr.
Willans remarks, "is the ability to recognize a trivial incident and transform it into a riot." This may or may not be true of the French.
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GeoffreyWillans, author of Down With Skool, How to be Topp, Whizz for Atomms and Back in the Jug Agane, was born and educated in England, and spent time not only as a tiny pupil but also as an extremely perceptive schoolmaster.
After active service during the Second World War he joined the BBC as a feature writer.
