Beauclerk [née Mellon; other married name Coutts], Harriot, duchess of St Albans (1777
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Jane W. Stedman
Carte, Helen [née Susan Helen Couper Black; other name Lenoir] (1852–1913), businesswoman and theatre manager, was born on 12 May 1852, at Wigtown, Scotland, the second daughter of George Couper Black (1819–1863), procurator fiscal, and his wife, Ellen Foster Barham...
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Andrew H. Spicer
Chow [otherwise Chow Ting-hsing; Chow Man-wei], Raymond (1927–2018), film producer and financier, was born on 8 October 1927 in Hong Kong, the son of a governor of the Bank of China. He attended the Catholic St Stephen’s College Preparatory School for Boys...
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Robert Elsie and Bejtullah D. Destani
Duma, Dervish (1908–1998), diplomatist and leader of the Albanian community in Britain, was born on 4 July 1908 in Borsh on the southern coast of Albania, then still part of the Ottoman empire, the son of Emin Duma (d. 1922), from a local landowning family. In 1914 the village of ...
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Fisk, Sir Ernest Thomas (1886–1965), entrepreneur and developer of radio, was born on 8 August 1886 at Sunbury, Middlesex, the second child of Thomas Harvey Fisk, builder, and his wife, Charlotte Hariette, née Halland. Educated at St Mary's and Sunbury Boys' schools, Fisk...
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Fraser, Lindley Macnaghten (1904–1963), broadcaster and economist, was born on 14 August 1904 in Edinburgh, the son of Norman Fraser, a minister of the United Free Church of Scotland, and of his wife, Cecilia Craigie Fraser. His schooling started at George Watson's College, Edinburgh...
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Gatti family (per. 1847–1981), restaurateurs, theatre owners, and entrepreneurs, came to prominence with Carlo Gatti (1817–1878), who was born into a patrician family in the frazione (district) of Marogno in Dongio, Val di Blenio, Ticino, Switzerland, on 27 July 1817, the youngest of four sons and three daughters of ...
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Gye, Frederick, the younger (1810–1878), businessman and opera manager, was born on 18 January 1810, in London, where he was baptized at St Benet Gracechurch on 31 March 1811, at Finchley, Middlesex, the son of Frederick Gye the elder and his wife Sarah Pead ...
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Roger Lloyd-Jones
Harwood, Harold Marsh (1874–1959), businessman and theatre manager, was born at Ellesmere Park, Barton, near Manchester, on 29 March 1874, the son of George Harwood (1845–1912), cotton spinner and Liberal MP for Bolton from 1895, and his wife, Alice, née Marsh. The family's fortune was based on the cotton firm of ...
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S. P. Cerasano
Henslowe, Philip (c. 1555–1616), theatre financier, was the son of Edmond Henslowe of Lindfield, Sussex, who served as master of the game in Ashdown Forest and Broil Park, and Margaret Ridge who seems to have come from a local family. The family name was originally ...
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Matthew Hilton
Hilton, John (1880–1943), social scientist and broadcaster, was born at 14 Rumworth Street, Bolton, Lancashire, on 28 December 1880, the first son and the last of seven children of John Hilton (b. 1841) and his wife, Mary, née Bowden. He avoided much of the poverty that the rest of his family had had to endure. His father had risen steadily from spindle polisher to become ...
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Sir Antony Jay (1930–2016), by Geraint Lewis, 2011
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Jay, Sir Antony Rupert [Tony] (1930–2016), writer, management consultant, and film producer, was born at the maternity home at 174 Sutherland Avenue, Paddington, London, on 20 April 1930, the son of Ernest Jay, née Ernest Joseph Alberge (1893–1957), actor, and his wife, ...
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Anne Pimlott Baker
Kelly, Margaret [known as Bluebell] (1910–2004), dancer and businesswoman, was born on 24 June 1910 at the Rotunda Hospital, Parnell Street, Dublin, the daughter of James Kelly and Margaret O'Brien. Three weeks after her birth her mother handed her over to a priest, saying she would be going abroad for three months; the baby was put into the care of ...
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Maxwell, John (1877–1940), film financier and cinema owner, was born in Scotland. He trained as a solicitor and practised in Glasgow. In 1912 he acquired an interest in a Glasgow cinema and over the next ten years built up a circuit of twenty cinemas and set up ...
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Orton, Peter Charles (1943–2007), television executive and businessman, was born at Collyers Steep, Petersfield, Hampshire, on 17 June 1943, one of four sons of Herbert Charles Orton (1887–1953), an aircraft fitter and former cruise liner steward, and his wife, Eva Lilian, née Dallas (1904–1995)...
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