Biography
Rupert John Cornford (27 December 1915 – 28 December 1936) was an English poet and communist. He was the son of F. M. Cornford and Frances Cornford, and was through his mother a great-grandson of the naturalist Charles Darwin.
He was born in Cambridge, and named after Rupert Brooke, who was a friend of his parents, but preferred to use his secon ...