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Joanne Frost (born 27 June 1970 or 27 June 1971) (sources differ) is an English television personality, nanny and author. She is best known for the reality television programme Supernanny UK, in which ...
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Catherine Eddowes (14 April 1842 – 30 September 1888) was one of the victims in the Whitechapel murders and the fourth of the canonical five officially linked to the unidentified serial killer known as ...
First victim of Jack the Ripper, killed in Whitechapel, England in 1888
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Mary Ann "Polly" Nichols (née Walker; 26 August 1845 – 31 August 1888) was the first canonical victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer known as Jack the Ripper, who is believed to have killed ...
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Annie Chapman (born Eliza Ann Smith, 25 September 1840 – 8 September 1888) was the second canonical victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper, who killed and mutilated a minimum ...
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Jill Murphy (5 July 1949 – 18 August 2021) was a British author and illustrator of children's books. She is best known for the Worst Witch novels and the "Large Family" picture books. She has been called ...
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Gladys May Aylward (24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970) was a British evangelical Christian missionary to China, whose story was told in the book The Small Woman, by Alan Burgess, published in 1957, and ...
Former domestic servant of the British Royal Household
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Paul Burrell, RVM (born 6 June 1958) is a former servant of the British Royal Household. He was a footman for Queen Elizabeth II and later butler to Diana, Princess of Wales. Since her death in 1997, ...
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Hannah Cullwick (26 May 1833 – 9 July 1909) was a diarist who revealed less-known aspects of the relations between Victorian servants and their masters.
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Margaret Powell (1907 – April 1984) was an English writer. Her book about her experiences in domestic service, Below Stairs, became a best-seller and she went on to write other books and became a television ...
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Alice Ayres (12 September 1859 – 1885) was an English nursemaid honoured for her bravery in rescuing the children in her care from a house fire. Ayres was a household assistant and nursemaid to the ...
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Elizabeth Canning (married name Treat; 17 September 1734 – June 1773) was an English maidservant who claimed to have been kidnapped and held against her will in a hayloft for almost a month. She ultimately ...
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William Butten was a young indentured servant of Samuel Fuller, a long-time leader of the Leiden Church. Butten died during the voyage of the Mayflower while traveling with Fuller, who had been appointed ...
Nursery nurse to Winston Churchill (c. 1832 – 1895)
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Elizabeth Ann Everest (born ca. 1832, Chatham, Kent died 3 July 1895, Finsbury Park, North London) was Winston Churchill's beloved nanny, and an important figure in his early life.
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Deborah "Deb" Willet (1650–1678) was a young maid employed by Samuel Pepys (1633–1703), an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament. She and Pepys, 17 years her senior, engaged in a liaison ...
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Emily Blatchley (c. 1842 – July 26, 1874) was a British Protestant Christian missionary to China with the China Inland Mission. She pioneered the work of single women missionaries in China and served as ...