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Leila Buckley
British writer (1917–2013)
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.[1] She was the daughter of Lt.-Col. Adrian Sydney Morton Porter OStJ, a King's Messenger,[2] and the author Rose Henniker Heaton.[3] Her grandfather was the postal reformer Sir John Henniker Heaton, 1st Baronet.[4]
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.[4]
During the Second World War she worked in the Political Intelligence Department of the Foreign Office.[5]