Jack Elwood Evans was born on 7 July 1920 in Akron, Summit County, Ohio, USA, a son of George Elwood Evans (1894-1969) and Ada May Evans née Deffenbaugh (1895-1960). He was an elder brother to Quen...
Born Dublin. Works include: Albert and the group Asia, both at the Albert Memorial, After Foley's death the statue of Albert was finished by his assistant Thomas Brock. Died at home, The Priory, Up...
Novelist. Born Cecil Lewis Troughton Smith in Cairo. He adopted the Forester pseudonym when his writing career began in 1923. Best known for the 'Hornblower' series of novels, he also wrote 'The Af...
Person, Literature, Egypt, USA
Author. Born Antonia Margaret Caroline Pakenham, daughter of the 7th Earl of Longford. Best known for historical biographies such as 'Mary Queen of Scots' and 'Cromwell, Our Chief of Men'. She was ...
Designer. Born Abraham Gamse in Whitechapel. In WW2 he was approached by the War Office to produce a recruitment poster, and became an official war artist, designing many more posters. After the wa...
Private. Number 26354 of the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards. Born in Poplar. Buried in grave IV.C.15, Mory Abbey Military Cemetery, France. He was awarded the British War and Victory Medals.
Initiator of the uniform Penny Post in 1840. Due to him Britain was the first country to use adhesive stamps and thus we do not have to put the name of our country on them. This is analogous to the...
William Albert Hooker was born in 1895 in Finsbury. He was the third son and child of the eleven children of Henry Thomas Hooker (1873-1933) and Elizabeth Margaret Hooker née Clark (1873-1946). His...
Born Manchester. Electrical engineer. Invented and patented the three-wire distribution system (if you've ever wired in a plug you will know what this means). Died, with three of his children, in...
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