Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret (1932–2010), actress, writer, and artist, was born on 21 November 1932 at 294 Menlove Avenue, Allerton, Liverpool, the younger child of Richard Bainbridge, commercial agent, and his wife, Winifred, née Baines. Her father was a self-made man who left school at ten, established himself successfully in business, but then went bankrupt as a result of the 1929 financial crash. His wife, who considered that her husband had married above himself, was disappointed and embittered by the family's reduced circumstances, and the young ...
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Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret (1932–2010), actress, writer, and artist
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Boty [married name Goodwin], Pauline Veronica (1938–1966), artist and actress
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Boty [married name Goodwin], Pauline Veronica (1938–1966), artist and actress, was born at 12 Dingwall Avenue, Croydon, south London, on 6 March 1938, the daughter of Albert Alexandre Auguste Boty (1906–1993), a chartered accountant born in Iran with Belgian ancestry, and his wife, ...
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Hart, Norman Antony [Tony] (1925–2009), artist and television presenter
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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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Nuttall, Jeffrey Addison [Jeff] (1933–2004), artist and author
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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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Oliver [née Patrick], Cordelia McIntyre (1924–2009), artist and art and theatre critic
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Oliver [née Patrick], Cordelia McIntyre (1924–2009), artist and art and theatre critic, was born at 101 Pollok Street, Glasgow, on 24 April 1924, the daughter of Robert Patrick, marine engineer, and his wife, Flora McCallum, née Matchett. She was educated at Hutcheson's Grammar School...
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Piper, John Egerton Christmas (1903–1992), artist and designer
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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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Routh, John Reginald Surdeval [Jonathan] (1927–2008), television presenter, author, and painter
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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, ...
