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John Douglas Louis Veale (June 15, 1922 - November 16, 2006) was an English classical composer.
He was born in Shortlands, Bromley, Kent. He was educated at Repton and Corpus Christi College, Oxford, alongside Kenneth Tynan. As a composer, he was largely self-taught, but took some lessons from Egon Wellesz, Thomas Armstrong, Roger Sessions and Roy Harris (the latter's only English pupil).
He served as film correspondent with the Oxford Mail (1966 - 1980) and as copy editor at Oxford University Press (1968 - 1987). Read more on