Who was born first, Barbara Cartland or John Banville?
John Banville William John Banville (born 8 December 1945), who writes as John Banville and sometimes as Benjamin Black, is an Irish novelist, adapter of dramas, and screenwriter. Recognised for his precise, cold, forensic prose style, Nabokovian inventiveness, and for the dark humour of his generally arch narrators, Banville is considered to be "one of the most imaginative literary novelists writing in the English language today." He has been described as "the heir to Proust, via Nabokov."
John Newland (cricketer) John Newland (1717, Slindon, Sussex – 1800, England) was an English professional cricketer who played first-class cricket during the 1740s for Slindon Cricket Club and Sussex. He made 8 known first-class appearances plus two more in single wicket.