Horace de Vere Cole
Deceased Person
1881 – 1936
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Who was Horace de Vere Cole?
William Horace de Vere Cole was an eccentric prankster and poet, born in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom. His most famous trick was the Dreadnought Hoax on 7 February 1910 when he fooled the captain of the Royal Navy warship HMS Dreadnought into taking Cole and a group of his friends, including Virginia Woolf, for an Abyssinian delegation.
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- Born
- May 5, 1881
Ballincurrig - Siblings
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- University of Cambridge
- Died
- Feb 25, 1936
Paris
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on July 23, 2013
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