Aylen biography

Leo Aylen was born on February 15, 1935 in Eshowe, Zululand, Natal, Union of South Africa.
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AYLEN (Vallely), PETER, timberer; b. 1799 in Liverpool, England; d. probably October 1868 in Aylmer, Que.

Peter Aylen, the “King of the Shiners,” had a brief and bloody period of fame in the mid 1830s when he dominated the Ottawa valley by violence. He came to Canada about 1815, according to legend a runaway sailor. The story is given credence by his change of name: when selling land in 1837 he used what was apparently his legal surname, Vallely. Little is known of his life before the 1830s although it is clear he worked his way up to a significant position in the Ottawa valley timber trade. In 1832, by then a resident of Nepean Township, Carleton County, Upper Canada, Aylen was prominent enough to be a partner in the “Gatineau Privilege.” He joined with the leading timberers on the Upper Ottawa – Ruggles, Tiberius, and Christopher Wright, Thomas McGoey, George Hamilton*, and C. A. Low – to obtain a monopoly on exploitation of timber on the Gatineau River. This profitable partnership, in which each participant took out 2,000 sticks of red pine per ann

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Jan Aylen

Rear-AdmiralIan Gerald AylenCB OBE DSC (12 October 1910 – 5 November 2003), known as Jan Aylen, was an officer of the Royal Navy during the Second World War, eventually rising to flag rank.

Early life

Aylen was born in Saltash, Cornwall and educated at Blundell's School and the Royal Naval Engineering College, Keyham, and Greenwich. He was a keen rugby player, representing Kent, Hampshire and Devon at rugby, and captained the Devonport Services R.F.C. in 1938–39. He married Alice Maltby in 1937 and with her had a son and two daughters.

Naval career

Aylen served at sea, at first aboard the battleshipHMS Rodney under future Admiral of the FleetCaptain Jack Tovey. Aylen then became engineer officer of the destroyerHMS Kelvin, which formed part of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla under Captain the Lord Louis Mountbatten. On one occasion, while the Kelvin was in Bombay for repairs, Aylen and a party of sailors visited the Khyber Pass. Aylen and the Kelvin then went on to see action at the Second Battle of Sirte on 22 March 1942. He recei

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Leo Aylen

Leo was born in KwaZulu, South Africa, the son of Charles Aylen, whom the Zulus elected Bishop of Zululand.

A scholar of New College, Oxford, Leo took a first in Classics. He ran for the university, and was a member of the first running team to run from Land’s End to John O’Groats. He played solo piano sonatas and chamber music in the university music rooms, and climbed several 4000 metre peaks in the Alps. He had two of his plays produced, with another one given a staged reading, and he worked in Wladek Sheybal’s acting studio.

He joined the Playwriting Group run by Bristol University Drama Department, where he had two more of his plays staged, gained a Ph.D for which he worked under H.D.F. Kitto, took acting classes at the Bristol Old Vic Drama School, and acted and directed in the university theatres, where his most notable production was one of The Clouds by Aristophanes in the original Greek with Professor Kitto as Socrates dangling in a basket.

His first appearance on British television was while running from Land’s End to Jo