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Harriet Wheeler Facts

Harriet Wheeler (born 26 June 1963) is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer of the 1980s/1990s alternative rock band, The Sundays.

Ray Dorset Facts

Raymond Edward “Ray” Dorset (born 21 March 1946, Ashford, Middlesex) is an English guitarist, singer, songwriter, and founder of Mungo Jerry. He composed most of the songs for the band, including the hit singles “In the Summertime”, “Mighty Man”, “Ba

Alice Barlow Facts

Alice Barlow (born 9 August 1991), is an English actress and singer, best known for her role in Hollyoaks as Rae Wilson.

V.S. Naipaul Facts

Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, TC (/ˈnaɪpɔːl/ or /naɪˈpɔːl/; born 17 August 1932), is a Trinidadian Nobel Prize-winning British writer known for his comic early novels set in Trinidad and Tobago, his bleaker later novels of the wider worl

June Palmer Facts

June Palmer (1 August 1940 in London, England – 6 January 2004), also known as “June Power”, was alongside Pamela Green the most famous Harrison Marks model of the 1960s, featuring in his publications Kamera and Solo and in his short films featurin

Cherry Dee Facts

Cherry Daniella Andrea Frampton (born 11 June 1987) is a former glamour model and Page 3 girl from Buckley in Flintshire, Wales, who posed under the name Cherry Dee. During her modelling career, she was featured in magazines such as Fast Car, Fit For

Fiona Dickson Facts

Joan Fiona Dickson OBE, or Fiona Dickson (best known as Fiona Castle) (born 1940 on the Wirral Peninsula, Cheshire) is a retired British dancer who is most notable for her marriage to the late TV entertainer Roy Castle. They were married from 1963 un

Augustus Theodore Bartholomew Facts

Augustus Theodore (Theo) Bartholomew (1882 – 1933) was a bibliographer and a librarian at Cambridge University for over twenty-five years. He was the youngest child of a large family, his father having died shortly before his birth. He grew up in F

Sean Caffrey Facts

Sean Caffrey (born 15 April 1940, Belfast, Northern Ireland – died 25 April 2013) was an actor from Northern Ireland.

Vanda Godsell Facts

Vanda Godsell (17 November 1922 – 11 April 1990) was an English actress. Hal Erickson writes in Allmovie, “Vanda Godsell specialized in playing disheveled housewives, busybody landladies, and blowsy domestics.” She appeared as Mrs. Weaver in This S

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne Facts

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, usually addressed as Lord Melbourne, PC FRS (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841). He is best know

Mike Hoare Facts

Thomas Michael Hoare (born 17 March 1919) (“Mad Mike”) is an Irish mercenary leader known for military activities in Africa and his failed attempt to conduct a coup d’état in the Seychelles.