![]() He also formed an important friendship with a young master there, George Mallory (1886-1924), who later died in the 1924 Everest expedition. In 1911, he began to publish his first poems in the school magazine, The Carthusian. ![]() Initially bullied because of his half-German ancestry, he learned to box, and became involved with the school’s poetry society. Graves was educated at Charterhouse School between 19. His mother was German, and a great-niece of the renowned 19 th-century historian Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886). ![]() His father was an Irish poet and minor figure in the Irish Literary Revival of the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. Robert Graves (1895-1985) was born in Wimbledon in 1895, the third child of Alfred Perceval Graves (1846-1931) and his second wife Amy von Ranke Graves (1857-1951). ![]()
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