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Barker, Ronald William George (1929–2005)  

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07 March 2013
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08 January 2009
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Barker, Ronald William George [Ronnie] (1929–2005), actor and comedian  

Edward Leeson

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07 March 2013
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08 January 2009

Barker, Ronald William George [Ronnie] (1929–2005), actor and comedian, was born on 25 September 1929 at 70 Garfield Street, Bedford, the only son and second of the three children of Leonard William Barker, a clerk for Shell, and his wife, Edith Eleanor, née...

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Cleverdon, (Thomas) Douglas James (1903–1987), bookseller and radio producer  

John Wells

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Cleverdon, (Thomas) Douglas James (1903–1987), bookseller and radio producer, was born on 17 January 1903 in Bristol (he retained all his life a faint trace of a Bristol accent), the elder son (there were no daughters) of Thomas Silcox Cleverdon, master wheelwright, and his wife, ...

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Davies, Thomas (b. 1713?, d. 1785), bookseller and actor  

O. M. Brack

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Davies, Thomas (b. 1713?, d. 1785), bookseller and actor, is of uncertain origins, but has been identified with Thomas Davice, born on 22 October 1713, ‘begotten in fornication’, the son of Anne Bizet and John Davice, ‘a Souldier now in Ireland’ (old parish registers, births, Dalkeith...

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Ebers, John (bap. 1778, d. 1858), bookseller and opera manager  

John Rosselli

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Ebers, John (bap. 1778, d. 1858), bookseller and opera manager, was born in Hertford, where he was baptized at St Andrew's Church on 24 July 1778, the son of John Henry Ebers and his wife, Sarah. At some time between 1808 and 1811 he took over from his father a fashionable bookshop in ...

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Gye, Frederick, the elder (1781–1869), tea dealer and proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens  

Douglas A. Reid

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Gye, Frederick, the elder (1781–1869), tea dealer and proprietor of Vauxhall Gardens, was by 1806 a printer in partnership with G. Balne at 7 Union Court, Broad Street, in the City of London, where, having secured the contract for printing state lottery tickets, he made a profitable living. ...

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Hartley, William (1857–1924), showman and medicine vendor  

William Schupbach

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23 September 2004
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23 September 2004

Hartley, William (1857–1924), showman and medicine vendor, was born on 8 August 1857 at Marsh Southowram, near Halifax, Yorkshire, the son of Alfred Hartley, described as a flag facer, and his wife, Sarah Ann (née Peel) (1832/3–1910). Of his early life nothing is known. ...