Bamber [née Balmuth], Helen Rae (1925–2014), human rights advocate and psychotherapist, was born at Westminster Hospital, London, on 1 May 1925, the only child of Louis Balmuth (1887–1961), accountant, and his wife Marie, née Bader (1895–1969), a singer. At the time of her birth registration her parents, both of Polish-Jewish descent, lived at ...
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Tarnjit Birdi
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Emilia Francis Dilke, Lady Dilke (1840–1904) by Sir Hubert von Herkomer, 1887 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Hilary Fraser
Dilke [née Strong; other married name Pattison], Emilia Francis, Lady Dilke (1840–1904), art historian and trade unionist, was born on 2 September 1840 in Ilfracombe, Devon, the fourth of the six children of Henry Strong (1794–1876) and his wife, Emily Weedon (...
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Ezra, Derek Joseph, Baron Ezra (1919–2015), industrialist, was born on 23 February 1919 in Tasmania, the son of David Joseph Ezra (1886–1972), a property developer, originally from Bombay, and his wife, Lillie (1892–1960), daughter of Solomon Hayim Ezekiel Musleah...
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Marianne Van Remoortel
Francis [née Jervis], Eliza Warren (1810–1900), author of domestic manuals and journal editor, was born on 23 December 1810 in Wells, Somerset, where she was baptized on 19 June 1811, the first of six surviving children of John Jervis (b....
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Michael Horniman
Horniman, Frederick John (1835–1906), tea merchant and founder of the Horniman Museum, London, was born on 8 October 1835 at Bridgwater, Somerset, the fourth of six children of John Horniman (1803–1893) and his wife, Ann, daughter of Thomas Smith of Witney. The first two children and the last died in infancy; young ...
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Paul Levy
Innes, Jocasta Claire Traill (1934–2013), journalist, cookery writer, and interior design writer, was born on 21 May 1934 in Nanking (Nanjing), China, the eldest of four children of Paul Joseph Anthony Innes (1906–1977), a Shell Oil executive, and his wife, Alice Eileen, née...
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Hollingworth Magniac (1786–1867) by unknown artist HSBC Holdings plc
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Magniac, Hollingworth (1786–1867), merchant and connoisseur of medieval art, was born in Kensington, London, on 15 April 1786, the fourth son and seventh child in a family of eight sons and three daughters of Colonel Francis Magniac (d. 1823) of Kensington and ...
