Desmond Francis Talbot Coke (1879-1931) who also wrote under the pseudonym Belinda Blinders, was the British author of: Sandford of Merton: A Story of Oxford Life (1903), Sandford of the "Smart" Set (1904), The Dog from Clarkson"s (1905), The Bending of a Twig (1906/09), The Comedy of Age (1906), The Call (1907), The House Prefect (1908), The Pedestal; or, Son and Mother (1908), Beauty for Ashes: A Comedy of Caste (1910), Wilson"s (1911), The Cure: A Psychologic Farce (1912), The Worst House at Sherborough (1913), Helena Brett"s Career (1913), The Chaps of Harton (1913), The Art of Silhouette (1913) and others.