Writer, broadcaster and former M.P. Born Gyles Daubeney Brandreth in Germany where his father was serving as a legal officer with the Allied Control Commission. Famous for his over the top knitwear. He was M.P. for Chester from 1992 to 1997. His writing has focused on words and puzzles and he also wrote an authorised biography of Sir John Gielgud.
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Formed initially to preserve Jane's cottage in the village of Chawton, Hampshire. This was purchased in 1947 and is now open to the public.
Born Surrey as Ford Hermann Hueffer, of an English mother and German father, Francis Heuffer. Grew up in Pre-Raphaelite circles. On the death of their father in 1889 Ford and his brother went to li...
Person, Literature, France, Germany, USA
Written by Kenneth Grahame, much of it based on a series of letters to he wrote to his son. First published October 1908.
Novelist. Born at 103 Woodside, Wimbledon. From 1932, she produced one romance novel and one thriller each year. In all she wrote nearly sixty volumes. Died at Guy's Hospital.
The original Austin Friars monestery dates from about 1250. In 1550 Edward VI granted Protestant refugees from the Netherlands permission to establish a church here, the first Dutch Protestant chur...
From the typefaces one can tell that the two inscriptions were done at different times, and the WW2 dates don't look squeezed in. From t...
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