#14639, Michael Edward PALIN

Michael Palin has written and starred in numerous TV programmes and films, from Monty Python and Ripping Yarns to A Fish Called Wanda and The Death of Stalin.  He has also made several much-acclaimed travel documentaries, his journeys taking him to the North and South Poles, the Sahara Desert, the Himalayas, Eastern Europe, Brazil, North Korea and Iraq.  His books include accounts of his journeys, novels (Hemingway's Chair and The Truth), several volumes of diaries and Erebus: The Story of a Ship.  From 2009 to 2012 he was president of the Royal Geographical Society.  He received a BAFTA fellowship in 2013 and a knighthood in the 2019 New Year Honours List.

His book Great-Uncle HARRY published in September 2023 has many references to his Cobbold relations.  Needless to say there is a copy in the Trust library.