Who ...

[Malcopool]

1. ...described a nocturnal internment in Galicia?
2. ...confronted Langri at the cavemouth and claimed the manchild?
3. ...was given a microscope by Theodore?
4. ...built the lead donkey?
5. ...was repeatedly told not to do that?

[bookbinder]

1. Charles Wolfe in his poem: The burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna.

[bookbinder]

5. George, Don't Do That (Joyce Grenfell book).

[bookbinder]

4. John Dolbeer (1827-1902)? Invented the donkey engine for logging operations.

[bookbinder]

[Spelling: Lungri]
Raksha and Father Wolf. Jungle Book (Kipling)

[bookbinder]

▲Question 2.

[bookbinder]

I shall have to suspend operations for now. I'm stuck on 3. Might have a go tomorrow.

[donny48]

3. Gerald Durrel

[donny48]

3 Theodore Stephanides (21 January 1896 - 13 April 1983) was a Greek poet, author, doctor and naturalist. He is best remembered as the friend and mentor of the famous naturalist Gerald Durrell, featuring in Durrell's My Family and Other Animals, Birds, Beasts and Relatives, The Garden of the Gods and Fillets of Plaice, Durrell's brother Lawrence's Prospero's Cell, and Henry Miller's The Colossus of Maroussi.

[Malcopool]

Bookbinder and Donny48 - thanks and apologies for being slow to respond.