Leila Buckley, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Leila Buckley

British writer

Date of Birth: 16-Jan-1917

Date of Death: 25-Jan-2013

Profession: writer, poet, translator

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Leila Charlotte Evelyn Petronella Buckley (16 January 1917 – 25 January 2013), née Porter, known by her pen name Frances Lobb, was an English poet, novelist and translator.
She was the daughter of Lt.-Col.
Adrian Sydney Morton Porter OStJ, a King's Messenger, and the author Rose Henniker Heaton.
Her grandfather was the postal reformer Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet.She married, firstly, the renowned Oxford classicist Courtenay Edward Stevens in 1938.
She and Courtenay Stevens were divorced.
She married, secondly, Philip Strachan Buckley in 1949.During the Second World War she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.