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William Edward Cotton (1899–1969) by Yousuf Karsh Karsh / Camera Press, London
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Cotton, William Edward [Billy] (1899–1969), bandleader and radio and television broadcaster, was born on 27 May 1899 at 31 New Tothill Street, Westminster, London, the youngest of the ten children of Joseph Cotton, a water turncock, and his wife, Susan Harmer. He was educated at ...
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Henry Robert Hall (1898–1989) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hall, Henry Robert (1898–1989), dance-bandleader and radio broadcaster, was born on 2 May 1898 at 23 Bonar Road, Peckham, London, the eldest son in the family of three sons and three daughters of Henry Robert Hall, blacksmith, and his wife, Kate Ellen Smith...
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Harvey, Trevor Barry (1911–1989), conductor, broadcaster, and music critic, was born on 30 May 1911 at Freshwater, Isle of Wight, the only son of Horace Harvey (1877–1973), master grocer, and his wife, Harriet Elizabeth, née Brenton (1884–1970), then of ...
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Hopkins, (Ernest William) Antony (1921–2014), composer, conductor, and broadcaster, was born Ernest William Anthony Reynolds on 21 March 1921 at 13 Gardenia Road, Bush Hill Park, Edmonton, London, the third of four children of (Reginald) Hugh Reynolds (1891–1925) and his wife, ...
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Kenrick Reginald Hijmans Johnson (1914–1941) by unknown photographer, c. 1940 photographer unknown / Val Wilmer Collection
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Johnson, Kenrick Reginald Hijmans [Ken] [called Ken Snakehips Johnson] (1914–1941), dancer and bandleader, was born on 10 September 1914 at 193 Wellington Street, Georgetown, British Guiana, the first of two surviving sons and eldest of six children of Dr Reginald Fitzherbert Johnson...
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Ledger, Sir Philip Stevens (1937–2012), conductor, pianist, and composer, was born on 12 December 1937 at Newdigate House, Knole Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, the son of Walter Stephen Ledger (1907–1986), secretary of the Bexhill-on-Sea Building Society, and his wife, Winifred Kathleen, née Stevens (1911–2001)...
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Victor Marlborough Silvester (1900–1978) by unknown photographer © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Silvester, Victor Marlborough (1900–1978), ballroom dancer and bandleader, was born on 25 February 1900 at the vicarage of St John's Church, Wembley, the second of six children and younger son of the Revd John William Potts Silvester and his wife, Katherine (née...
