Author for children. Born Oak Street, Ealing, where the plaque now is. Specialised in writing long series of stories generally using a different pen-name for each. Most famously, as Charles Hamilton he wrote the Billy Bunter stories. Never married. Died at home at Kingsgate-on-Sea, Kent.
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Charles Hamilton (Frank Richards)
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Billy Bunter creator
Charles Hamilton, known as Frank Richards, creator of Billy Bunter, was born ...
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Sunbeam
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St Nicholas Nursery
In association with the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street.
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Miss N. G. Price
Represented the Sunday School of the Highbury Quadrant Congregational Church in 1957.
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RAF apprentices and boy entrants
Royal Air Force apprentices and boy entrants, 1920 - 1993.
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