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
Mark Bostridge
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Bainbridge, Dame Beryl Margaret (1932–2010)
Maker: Eamonn McCabe
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Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge (1932–2010) by Eamonn McCabe, 2002 © Eamonn McCabe
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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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Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946)
Maker: W. & D. Downey
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Connie Gilchrist (1865–1946), by W. & D. Downey, 1886–1887
© National Portrait Gallery, London
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Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946), artist’s model, dancer, and actress
Eilidh Innes
Gilchrist [married name Fitzmaurice], Constance Macdonald, countess of Orkney [Connie] (1865–1946), artist’s model, dancer, and actress, was born at 18 Winchester Street, Agar Town, London, on 23 January 1865, the youngest of five daughters of David Gilchrist (1818–1868...
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Green, (Phyllis) Pamela (1929–2010), model and actress
Justin Smith
Green, (Phyllis) Pamela (1929–2010), model and actress, was born on 28 March 1929 at 209 Richmond Road, Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, the only child of Leonard Henry Green (1902–1971), architect, and his Dutch wife, Catherine Hermance, née Dagevos (1903–1985). She left school at fourteen. From 1945 to 1947 she attended ...
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Green, (Phyllis) Pamela (1929–2010)
Maker: George Harrison Marks
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(Phyllis) Pamela Green (1929–2010) by George Harrison Marks, 1959-62 © estate of George Harrison Marks; image courtesy of Yahya El-Droubie
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Grossmith, (Walter) Weedon (1854–1919), artist and actor
See Grossmith, George
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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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Oliver [née Patrick], Cordelia McIntyre (1924–2009), artist and art and theatre critic
Duncan Macmillan
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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Oliver, Cordelia McIntyre (1923–2009)
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Cordelia McIntyre Oliver (1923–2009) by David Gibson, 2008 © David Gibson
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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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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 ...
