Elena Kats-Chernin female

Elena Kats-Chernin is a Soviet-born Australian music composer. She was born in Tashkent (now the capital of independent Uzbekistan — but then, pa...

Henri Maillardet male

Henri Maillardet (1745-?) was a Swiss mechanician of the 18th century who worked in London producing clocks and other mechanisms. He spent a period...

Bernard Mason male

Bernard Mason (b. 1895, d. ?) was a prominent Colchester businessman and philanthropist. He was the proprietor of Mason's printing firm from which...

Brian Cobby male

Brian Cobby (born 12 October 1929), is a British actor who in 1985 became the first male voice of the British speaking clock. It is widely reported...

Rick Maybury male

Rick Maybury (born 1954) is a British technology journalist, editor, author, part-time aviator and collector of 1960's technology. He writes for a...

Sara Mendes da Costa female

Sara Mendes da Costa, born c. 1966, from Brighton & Hove became the fourth permanent holder of the iconic role of the voice of the UK Speaking...

Salomon Coster male, deceased

In 1657, Salomon Coster, a Dutch clockmaker of the Hague, (Born circa 1620, died suddenly in 1659) was the first clockmaker to make a pendulum...

Ed Alleyne-Johnson male

Ed Alleyne-Johnson has been busking for over 20 years, since he was a Fine Art student at Oxford University using an electric violin which he...

Jane Cain female, deceased

Ethel Jane Cain (May 1, 1909 - September 19, 1996) was the original voice of the speaking clock in the United Kingdom. She was appointed in 1936...

Pat Simmons deceased

Pat Simmons was the voice of the UK's speaking clock from 1963 until 1985. A supervisor at a London telephone exchange, in 1963 Miss Simmons won a...