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Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor, OBE, DSO was of English and Irish descent. After his stormy schooldays, followed by his walk across Europe to Constantinople, he lived and travelled in the Balkans and the Greek Archipelago acquiring a deep interest in languages and remote places.

He was an army officer who played a prominent role behind the lines in the Battle of Crete during World War II.

He lived partly in Greece in a house he designed with his wife Joan in an olive grove in the Mani, and partly in Worcestershire.

He was widely regarded as "Britain's greatest living travel writer".