H. Coombes (–1980)

"The author of Literature and Criticism is a Gloucestershire man who educated at Tewkesbury and Cambridge. After a decade's schoolteaching in the industrial Midlands, he has done extramural and W.E.A lecturing in his own county for several years. He has written books on Edward Thomas and T.F. Powys. Outside his family and his literacy work, his main occupation is being in the countryside. He lives with his wife and three children just outside Cheltenham, on a hillside at the edge of the Cotswolds"
- Pelican Books, Literature and Criticism