Graham Greene parents, Charles Henry Greene and Marion Raymond Greene, were first cousins, both members of a large, influential family that included the owners of Greene King Brewery, bankers, and statesmen; his mother was cousin to Robert Louis Stevenson. Charles Greene was second master at Berkhamsted School, where the headmaster was Dr Thomas Fry, who was married to Charles' cousin. Another cousin was the right-wing pacifist Ben Greene, whose politics led to his internment during World War II. In his childhood, Greene spent his summers with his uncle, Sir William, at Harston House in Cambridgeshire. In Greene's description of his childhood, he
Virginia Graham (English writer) in the same year: "When Grandmama Fell off the Boat". Virginia Graham was writing regular film reviews for The Spectator in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Virginia Graham (English writer) Virginia Margaret Graham (1910–1993) was a London-born English writer, critic and poet, whose humorous verses on Second World War subjects were republished in London by Persephone Books in 2000 as "Consider the Years 1938–1946". She had a long correspondence with Joyce Grenfell, which was later published. Virginia Graham was the only child of humorist and poet, Harry Graham ("Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless People"), and Dorothy Villiers, who married in