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- Birth nameWilliam Charles Franklyn Plomer
- William Plomer was born on December 10, 1903 in Pietersburg, Transvaal, South Africa. He was a writer, known for The Butterfly Ball (1977), Gloriana (2000) and Gloriana (1984). He died on September 21, 1973 in Lewes, East Sussex, England, UK.
- South African-born librettist, poet and novelist, resident in Britain from 1929. He collaborated with Benjamin Britten on the rather scandalous "Gloriana" (1953) as a coronation tribute to Queen Elizabeth II. At one time he planned a children's opera about space travel.
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