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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 ...
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Anthony Paul Bamford, Baron Bamford, DL (born 23 October 1945) is a British businessman, chairman of JCB. He succeeded his father, Joseph Cyril Bamford, as chairman and managing director of JCB in 1975 ...
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Nigel Slater OBE (born 9 April 1956) is an English food writer, journalist and broadcaster. He has written a column for The Observer Magazine for over a decade and is the principal writer for the Observer ...
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Emma Louise Niblett (born 29 September 1973), better known by the stage name Scout Niblett, is an English singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Niblett debuted in 2001 with her first full-length ...
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John Lewley Cornforth CBE (2 September 1937 – 5 May 2004) was an architectural historian with a particular interest in the history of English country houses. He was the author of many books and articles ...
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William Booth (1776–1812) was an English farmer and forger, who was hung for his crimes. He is the subject of the song "Twice Tried, Twice Hung, Twice Buried" by John Raven and a book. Several geographical ...
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William Yardley (1632 – 6 May 1693) was an early settler of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and is the namesake of the borough of Yardley, Pennsylvania. As a persecuted Quaker minister, Yardley and his wife ...
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Alice Hobbins Porter (née , Hobbins; pen name, Cress; 9 February 1854 – 1926) was a British-born American journalist, correspondent, editor, and syndicalist. She was a correspondent, contributor, editor ...
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Cecil Ralph Townshend Congreve CBE (17 September 1876 – 3 June 1952), more often referred to as C.R.T. Congreve, was among the earliest English tea planters in the Anamalai hills of southern India.
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Samuel Leigh (1 September 1785 – 2 May 1852) was a prominent minister and missionary for the Wesleyan Methodist Church in early colonial New South Wales and New Zealand.
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Amanda Jayne Broderick (born 1971) is a British marketer, academic and academic administrator who has been the vice-chancellor and president of the University of East London since September 2018. She is ...
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Frederick Robert Buckley (1896–1976), better known as F. R. Buckley, was an English writer. He wrote more than 200 short stories for pulp magazines between 1918 and 1953. He was born on 20 December 1896 ...
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Maria Elvins Clarke née Pountney (1869 in Great Barr, Staffordshire – 20 June 1958 in Worthing, Sussex) was a British journalist based in Paris from the early 1900s until 1937 who wrote under the name ...
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William "Willie" Layton (1875–1944) was an English footballer who played as a full-back in the late 1890s and early 1900s. Born in Gornal, Staffordshire, he played for Blackwell Colliery and Chesterfield ...
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Sam Hughes (1 September 1823 – 1 April 1898) was the last great ophicleide player and one of the greatest who ever played the instrument in its short history.