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Bodie, Walford [real name Samuel Murphy Bodie] (1869–1939), music-hall entertainer  

Dave Russell

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23 September 2004
Published online:
23 September 2004

Bodie, Walford [real name Samuel Murphy Bodie] (1869–1939), music-hall entertainer, was born on 11 June 1869 at 33 George Street, Aberdeen, the son of William Bodie, journeyman baker, and his wife, Margaret, née Murphy. Educated at Robert Gordon College, Aberdeen, he joined the ...

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Davies [married name Calvert], Theodora Llewelyn (1898–1988), barrister and penal reform campaigner  

Anne Logan

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08 November 2018

Davies [married name Calvert], Theodora Llewelyn (1898–1988), barrister and penal reform campaigner, was born at 12 Village Road, Oxton, Birkenhead, on 18 April 1898, the second daughter and youngest of three children of Maurice Llewelyn Davies (1864–1939), manager for the ...

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Hicks, William Robert (1808–1868), asylum superintendent and humorist  

G. C. Boase

revised by Charles Brayne

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Published in print:
23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Hicks, William Robert (1808–1868), asylum superintendent and humorist, was born at Bodmin, Cornwall, on 1 April 1808, the son of William Hicks (d. 1833), a schoolmaster of Bodmin, and Sarah, daughter of William and Margaret Hicks. He was educated under his father until 1824, and then under a ...

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Merrick, Joseph Carey [the Elephant Man] (1862–1890)  

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004
Joseph Carey Merrick [the Elephant Man] (1862–1890) by unknown photographer, c. 1889 Royal London Hospital Archives and Museum

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Merrick, Joseph Carey [called the Elephant Man] (1862–1890), freak show novelty and medical curiosity  

Peter Osborne

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Merrick, Joseph Carey [called the Elephant Man] (1862–1890), freak show novelty and medical curiosity, was born at 50 Lee Street, Leicester, on 5 August 1862, the elder son (there was also a daughter) of Joseph Rockley Merrick (b. 1835/6), a warehouseman and machine operator in a cotton factory, and ...