Hoyle’s Youth

The Hoyle Family

Hoyle was born in the village of Gilstead, near the town of Bingley, west Yorkshire, on 24 June 1915. His mother, Mabel, had trained at the Royal College of Music, and later worked as a cinema pianist in Bingley. His father, Ben, was a violinist and wool merchant who served as a machine gunner in the First World War.

The Hoyle Family | Chemical Balance | Scholarship Examination Papers | A Letter to his Father | Hoyle's Telescope

Hoyle's Youth | Hoyle in Cambridge | Steady-State Universe | Stellar Nucleosynthesis | Hoyle vs Ryle | Institute of Theoretical Astronomy | Hoyle on the Radio | Hoyle the Writer | Hoyle the Polymath | Honours and Medals

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