Patrick Scrivenor

Patrick Scrivenor was born in Palestine but brought up mainly in South Africa. He then attended King's School, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford. A regular officer, Ulster Rifles, writer/researcher on Purnell's History of the Second World War etc.; latterly with Writers in Business, a company that worked to improve the English used by major commercial - and especially financial - concerns in reports. He has been a writer and editor of many years' standing, and also works as a gamekeeper in...See more

Patrick Scrivenor was born in Palestine but brought up mainly in South Africa. He then attended King's School, Canterbury and Oriel College, Oxford. A regular officer, Ulster Rifles, writer/researcher on Purnell's History of the Second World War etc.; latterly with Writers in Business, a company that worked to improve the English used by major commercial - and especially financial - concerns in reports. He has been a writer and editor of many years' standing, and also works as a gamekeeper in Kent. His books include Egg On Your Interface: A Dictionary of Modern Nonsense (1989). See less