Beningfield, Gordon George (1936–1998), wildlife and countryside artist, naturalist, and broadcaster, was born at his maternal grandmother’s house, 30 Neckinger, Bermondsey, London, on 31 October 1936, the elder son of George Robert Edward Beningfield (1907–1981), a Thames lighterman (and skilled amateur artist), and his wife ...
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Beningfield, Gordon George (1936–1998), wildlife and countryside artist, naturalist, and broadcaster
Mark Bryant
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Bone, Stephen (1904–1958), artist, writer, and broadcaster
Sally Hunter
Bone, Stephen (1904–1958), artist, writer, and broadcaster, was born on 13 November 1904 in Chiswick, Middlesex, the first of two sons of the engraver Sir Muirhead Bone (1876–1953) and of Gertrude Helena Dodd (1876–1962), writer. His Scottish father's successful career as an engraver brought rigour rather than comfort to ...
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Ellenshaw, Peter (1913–2007), special effects artist and landscape painter
Brian Sibley
Ellenshaw, Peter (1913–2007), special effects artist and landscape painter, was born William Samuel Cook Ellenshaw at 76 Chatham Road, Battersea, London, on 24 May 1913, the son of Adeline Eyles. His mother was named on his birth certificate as Alice Ellenshaw, formerly Eyles...
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Fraser, (Claud) Lovat (1890–1921), artist and designer
A. D. Rutherston
revised by Catherine Haill
Fraser, (Claud) Lovat (1890–1921), artist and designer, was born in London on 15 May 1890, the elder son of Claud Fraser (1862–1929), solicitor, and his wife, Florence Margaret Walsh (b. 1854), amateur harpist and watercolour artist. He was baptized Lovat Claud Fraser...
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Grossmith, (Walter) Weedon (1854–1919), artist and actor
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Hart, Norman Antony [Tony] (1925–2009), artist and television presenter
Anthony Hayward
Hart, Norman Antony [Tony] (1925–2009), artist and television presenter, was born at 90 Hastings Road, Maidstone, Kent, on 15 October 1925, the son of Norman Chandler Hart (1890–1970), a local government clerk and amateur cartoonist, and his wife, Evelyn Emma, née Dyke (1897–1981)...
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Hart, Norman Antony [Tony] (1925–2009)
Maker: T. Topsham
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Messel, Oliver Hilary Sambourne (1904–1978), artist and stage designer
D. Pepys-Whiteley
revised by James Hamilton
Messel, Oliver Hilary Sambourne (1904–1978), artist and stage designer, was born on 13 January 1904 at 27 Gloucester Terrace, Hyde Park, London, the youngest of the three children of Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Charles Rudolph Messel (1872–1953), of Nymans, Cuckfield, Sussex, a soldier and stockbroker of German extraction, and his wife, ...
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Nuttall, Jeffrey Addison [Jeff] (1933–2004)
Maker: Layle Silbert
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Nuttall, Jeffrey Addison [Jeff] (1933–2004), artist and author
John Calder
Nuttall, Jeffrey Addison [Jeff] (1933–2004), artist and author, was born on 8 July 1933 at 8 York Street, Clitheroe, Lancashire, the son of Kenneth Nuttall, schoolteacher, and his wife, Hilda Mary, née Addison. His younger brother, Anthony David (Tony) Nuttall (1937–2007), became a distinguished Shakespearian scholar. He grew up near the Welsh border, in ...
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Piper, John Egerton Christmas (1903–1992)
Maker: Ida Kar
John Egerton Christmas Piper (1903–1992) by Ida Kar, 1954 © National Portrait Gallery, London
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Piper, John Egerton Christmas (1903–1992), artist and designer
David Fraser Jenkins
Piper, John Egerton Christmas (1903–1992), artist and designer, was born on 13 December 1903 at Alresford, Ashley Road, Epsom, Surrey, the youngest of the three sons of Charles Alfred Piper (1862–1927), solicitor, and his wife, Mary Ellen Mathews (1866/7–1957).
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Maker: unknown photographer
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Routh, John Reginald Surdeval [Jonathan] (1927–2008), television presenter, author, and painter
Dennis Barker
Routh, John Reginald Surdeval [Jonathan] (1927–2008), television presenter, author, and painter, was born at Northwoods, Gosport Road, Bridgemary, near Gosport, Hampshire, on 24 November 1927, the only son of Captain (later Colonel) Herbert Charles Edric Routh (1894–1984), Royal Artillery officer, and his wife, ...
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Topolski, (Felician) Feliks (1907–1989), artist and stage designer
Joseph Darracott
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Topolski, (Felician) Feliks (1907–1989), artist and stage designer, was born Felicjan Tylpel-Topolski in Warsaw on 14 August 1907, the only child of Edward Topolski, actor and manager, and his wife, Stanislawa Drutowska, who later divorced her husband and married an army officer. Topolski...
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Wingfield, Lewis Strange (1842–1891), actor, writer, and artist
Joseph Knight
revised by J. Gilliland
Wingfield, Lewis Strange (1842–1891), actor, writer, and artist, was the third and youngest son of Richard Wingfield, sixth Viscount Powerscourt (1815–1844), and his wife, Elizabeth Frances Charlotte, eldest daughter of Robert Jocelyn, third earl of Roden. He was born on 25 February 1842 at ...
