Frank Nestle Butterworth (Peter Blundell)
(1875-1953), Travel writer and novelistSitter in 1 portrait
Frank Nestle Butterworth (Peter Blundell)
by Elliott & Fry
bromide print
NPG x86579
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frances hutchison , daughter.
07 September 2016, 13:06
Frank Butterworth was by training a marine engineer, and his book "Confessions of a Seaman" describes this early part of his career. Later he took a post in Brunei, managing a factory which processed cutch, used in tanneries. His book "City of many waters" describes Brunei at the start of the 20thC. Before the Great War came he published his first very successful humorous novel, "The Finger of Mr Blee", and there followed a greater success when "Mr Podd of Borneo" won Best Humorous Novel of the Year in 1921. He was a friend of E.Nesbit and Secretary of the Authors Club in London. He was well regarded as a writer in the same style as WW Jacobs.
T Modder
11 March 2021, 10:32
The factory in Brunei produced cutch by boiling mangrove bark. All his books were published under the pseudonym of Peter Blundell.