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Charles Ranke Patrick Graves (December 1, 1899 – February 21, 1971) was a journalist and writer. Born in Wimbledon, England, he worked on the Sunday Express, Daily Mail and many other newspapers. He published 46 books in all including the Thin Blue Line or Adventures in the RAF. His hobbies were golf and gin rummy. He was the brother of Robert Graves.

Books

Two of his books are of special interest, his Ireland Revisited (1949) and his autobiography The Bad Old Days (1951). In Ireland Revisited he takes the reader on an informative and humorous tour of Ireland.
He begins his autobiography:
"Those were the days, the Bad Old Days - primarily of large families, but also of could look the dollar in the eye without flinching or wincing, when cigarettes were lid, for 20 and beef was unrationed and champagne was 5s. a bottle"
and he concludes it as follows:
"What is happiness? I didn't yet know. But I'd already learnt that to have any chance of success in life one must be able to ‘take it’; that tact can be worth all the genius in the world; that unless you specialise you'll never make more than £800 a year; that it's madness to disbelieve in luck and the cycles of luck; that you've to spend money to make money; that you must at all costs keep your youthful enthusiasms; that the two greatest influences in a man’s life are his mother and his wife; that marriage will either make you or break you, because it can never leave you the same."

Personal Life

The motto of the Graves family is Aquila non captat muscas, (The eagle doesn't stoop to capture flies). The Graves family conquered the theology and law, medicine and mathematics, poetry and literature fields. They were a great Anglo-Irish family who have contributed much to Ireland.
His father was Alfred Perceval Graves (b. 22 July, 1846) who received an M.A. and was H.M. Inspector of Schools. Alfred Percival lived in Taunton, England, and was a poet of high standing, writing many charming poems and ballads. Alfred Pervival's marriage to Jane Cooper, (29 December, 1874 - 24 March, 1886), resulted in five children:

Philip Perceval, b. 25 February, 1876 (or 1870), m. Millicent Gilchrist.
Mary, b. 6 June, 1877, d. circa 1949. m. Arthur Sansome Preston.
Richard Massie, b. 14 September, 1880, d. 14 August, 1960, m. Eva Wilkinson, 1912.
Alfred Perceval ("Bones"), b. 14 December, 1881, m. Eirene Gwen Knight (a singer).
Susan Winthrop Savatier Graves, b. 23 March, 1885, m. Kenneth Macaulay.

After the death of his first wife, Alfred Percival married Amalie (Amy) Elizabeth Sophie (or Sophia) von Ranke, on 30 December, 1891, resulting in five more children:

Clarissa, b. 29 November, 1892. Poet, artist, Christian Science practitioner.

Rosaleen-Louise, b. 7 March, 1894, d. 3 August, 1989. m. James Francis Cooper.

Robert Von Ranke, b. 24 July, 1895, d. 7 December, 1985, poet, novelist, critic, author of I, Claudius and Good-Bye to All That.

Charles Patrick Ranke, b. 1899, d. 1971. Journalist and writer.

John Tiarks Ranke, b. 1903, d. 1980. m. Mary Wickens.

Sources

Genealogy.net

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