Esmond

Esmond Knight (1906 – 1987) was an English actor. He had a successful stage and film career before World War II. For much of his later career Knight was half-blind. He had been badly wounded in 1941 while on active service on board HMS Prince of Wales when she fought the Bismarck at the Battle of the Denmark Strait, and remained totally blind for two years, though he later regained some sight in his right eye.

Esmond Marcus David Romilly was a British journalist and communist and the first husband of Jessica Mitford. He was born in 1918 and died on the way back from a bombing raid over Germany in he was shot down over the North Sea in 1941.