Brian L. Lancaster

Brian Christian de Claiborne Howard (13 March 1905 – 15 January 1958) was an English poet and later a writer for the New Statesman. == Biography == Howard was born in Hascombe, Surrey, to American parents of Protestant descent. He was a descendant of Benjamin Franklin, and brought up in London. His father, Francis Howard Gassaway, was the son of the writer Frank Gassaway, and was an associate of James Whistler. His great grandfather, Stephen Griffith Gassaway, was Episcopal rector of Christ Ch…