author
Nicholas Everitt
1867–1928
A solicitor, sportsman, traveler, and writer of the Norfolk Broads, he turned his knowledge of country life into lively books on sport, wildlife, and local landscapes. His work ranges from the richly detailed Broadland Sport to the eerie short stories of Told at Twilight, illustrated by Alfred Munnings.
1 Audiobook
British Secret Service During the Great War
by Nicholas Everitt
About the author
Nicholas Everitt was the pen name of Henry Reeve Everitt (1867–1928), a solicitor and public notary whose practice was based in Norwich and Lowestoft. He lived first at North Cove Hall and later at Broad House on Oulton Broad, where he became closely associated with the landscape and sporting life of the Norfolk Broads.
His best-known book, Broadland Sport (1902), explores fishing, shooting, boating, wildfowling, yachting, and other country pursuits in East Anglia. He also wrote on English game law, grasses, and the health and diseases of ferrets, and published Told at Twilight (1904), a collection of strange and atmospheric sporting tales illustrated by Alfred Munnings.
Everitt was remembered as a keen sportsman and traveler, and local historical accounts also describe him as having worked for the British secret service during the First World War. After his death, Broad House and its grounds became the public space now known as Nicholas Everitt Park.