| |  | Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE (18 December 1908-26 April 1982) was an English actress, famous for her role in the 1945 film, "Brief Encounter",... |  | James Thomson (11 September 1700 - 27 August 1748) was a Scottish poet and playwright. He was born at Ednam in Roxburghshire, and educated at the... |  | John Fredrick Thomas Jane was the founding editor of reference books on warships ("All the World's Fighting Ships") and aircraft ("All the World's... |  | David Lepper (born 15 September 1945, Richmond) is a politician in the United Kingdom. He has been Labour Co-operative member of Parliament for... |  | Ronald Colman (February 9 1891 - May 19 1958) was an Oscar-winning English actor. Born in Richmond, Surrey, England, Colman discovered acting while... |  | Lesley Blanch (London, June 6, 1904 - May 6, 2007) was an English writer, fashion editor and writer of history. Blanch married Robert Alan... |  | John Beverley Nichols (born September 9, 1898 in Bower Ashton, Bristol, died September 15, 1983 in Kingston, London), was an English writer,... |  | David Clive King is an English author best known for his children's book "Stig of the Dump". Born in 1924 in Richmond, Surrey, he was the second of... |  | Captain Kenneth Alfred Hugo Cummins was one of the last surviving British veterans of the First World War. He served in the Royal Navy in the First... |  | Sir Charles Henry Hawtrey was a celebrated stage actor, comedian, director and producer/manager, knighted in 1922 by King George V. Born at Eton... | |
