Gould, Rupert Thomas (1890–1948), horologist and broadcaster, was born on 16 November 1890 at St Edward's Road, Southsea, Hampshire, the second son of William Monk Gould (d. 1923), composer and musician, and Agnes Hilton (d. 1937), daughter of Thomas Skinner, medical doctor of ...
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Koch, Ludwig Karl (1881–1974), broadcaster and sound recordist, was born on 13 November 1881 at Eschersheimer Landstrasse 20, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, the second of the three children of Karl Theodor Koch, businessman, and his wife, Auguste Hess. Ludwig Koch's parents, both of whom were Jews, were enthusiastic music-lovers who introduced him into ...
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Ludwig Karl Koch (1881–1974) by Fred Kormis, c. 1960 © reserved; unknown collection; photograph National Portrait Gallery, London
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Manning, Aubrey William George (1930–2018), zoologist and broadcaster, was born on 24 April 1930 at 39 Stile Hall Gardens, Chiswick, London, the second child of William James Manning (1887–1959), grocery inspector, and his wife, Hilda Winifred, née Noble (1891–1982). His older sister, ...
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Moore, Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell- (1923–2012), astronomer and broadcaster, was born Patrick Alfred Moore on 4 March 1923 at Innamincka, 22 Cannon Lane, Pinner, Middlesex, the only child of Captain Charles Trachsel Moore (1885–1947), an accountant who had served on the western front in the First World War, and his wife, ...
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Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell- Moore (1923–2012) by Dominic Old, 1985 © Dominic Old
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Robinson, John Ebdon [known as John Ebdon] (1923–2005), planetarium director and broadcaster, was born on 22 December 1923 at Durham House, 102 Crouch Hill, London, the son of William Ewart Robinson, export and import merchant, of 109 rue du Relais, Ixelles, Brussels...
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Sir Peter Markham Scott (1909–1989) by Howard Coster, 1944 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Scott, Sir Peter Markham (1909–1989), painter, ornithologist, and broadcaster, was born at 174 Buckingham Palace Road, London, on 14 September 1909, the only child of Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868–1912), Antarctic explorer, and his wife, (Edith Agnes) Kathleen Scott (1878–1947), sculptor, daughter of ...
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Simms, Eric Arthur (1921–2009), naturalist and broadcaster, was born on 24 August 1921 at The Cottage, Ladbroke Square Gardens, North Kensington, London, the youngest of the three sons and one daughter of Levi Simms (1872–1958), head gardener of Ladbroke Square Gardens, and his wife, ...
