Ronald Duncan (1914–1982) was an English writer, poet and playwright best known for the libretto to Benjamin Britten’s opera The Rape of Lucretia; a committed pacifist from the 1930s—he published The Complete Pacifist (1936) and met Mahatma Gandhi in 1937—his beliefs influenced much of his work and led him to found a cooperative farm at Mead Farm, Welcombe, Devon, during World War II (an experiment he described in Journal of a Husbandman, 1944, after the project failed by 1943), and he spent most of his life in Devon, drawing inspiration from its landscape and culture.