Born Devon. Created Mr Benn and Elmer the Patchwork Elephant.
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Fabian Benedict Peake
Artist and writer. Fabian Benedict Peake was the younger son of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) and Maeve Patricia Mary Theresa Peake née Gilmore (1918-1983). His birth was registered as Fabian Peake in...
Sir Osbert Lancaster
Cartoonist and writer. Son of Robert, grandson of Sir William, he was born at the Notting Hill house with the plaque. At Oxford University he became friends with Betjeman and after art school worke...
Debbie Bunting
2018: Our colleague Andrew Behan provides: Deborah R. Friedlander, also spelt Freedlander was born on 13 August 1920, the daughter of Alfred Freedlander and Ethel Eleanor Freedlander née Stammers. ...
William Ranwell
Artist. Much of his work is of river scenes in east London, documenting navy shipbuilding, and dock construction. We can't find a picture of him, so have used his painting of the launch of H.M.S. T...
Donna Reeves
Mosaic artist active in 2009. She is the author of Roman Style: Mosaic Project Book.
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Sir Arthur Keith
N5, Aubert Park, 17
Sir Arthur Keith, 1866 - 1955, distinguished physiologist and anthropologist, lived here, 1908 - 1933. London Borough of Islington Histor...
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