Which composer was born at Lowestoft in November 1913?
Lowestoft Roland Aubrey Leighton, the fiancé of Vera Brittain imortalised in her WW1 autobiography "Testament of Youth", lived with his family at Heather Cliff on Gunton Cliff. The composer Benjamin Britten was born in Lowestoft in 1913. He has been described as "without a doubt the greatest English classical composer of the last century" and "the only person of real celebrity to have emerged from darkest Lowestoft." The Benjamin Britten High School and a small shopping centre in the town are named after him. The children's author and illustrator Michael Foreman was born in 1938 and spent his childhood years in
HMS Lowestoft (1913) HMS Lowestoft (1913) HMS "Lowestoft" was a light cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the 1910s. She was a member of the "Birmingham" sub-class of the "Town" class. She survived World War I and was sold for scrap in 1931. The "Birmingham" sub-class were slightly larger and improved versions of the preceding "Chatham" sub-class. They were long overall, with a beam of and a draught of . Displacement was normal and at full load. Twelve Yarrow boilers fed "Lowestoft"s Parsons steam turbines, driving four propeller shafts, that were rated at for a design speed of . The ship reached