Terry-Thomas

Terry-Thomas

male, deceased (1990)
Terry-Thomas (July 14, 1911 - January 8, 1990) was a distinctive English comic actor. He was famous for his portrayal of disreputable members of...
William Donaldson

William Donaldson

male, deceased (2005)
Charles William Donaldson (January 4, 1935 - June 22, 2005) was an English satirist, writer, rake and playboy, author of "The Henry Root Letters"....
Rona Jaffe

Rona Jaffe

female, deceased (2005)
Rona Jaffe (June 12, 1932 - December 30, 2005) was an American novelist. Born in New York, New York, she wrote her first and most known book, "The...
Francis Charteris

Francis Charteris

male, deceased (1732)
Colonel Francis Charteris, ("baptised" 12 January 1672 - February 24 1732), nicknamed "The Rape-Master General," was a Scottish aristocrat who had...
Hilde Coppi

Hilde Coppi

female, deceased (1943)
Hilde Coppi (née Rake, born 30 May 1909 in Berlin, died 5 August 1943 in Berlin-Plötzensee, executed) was a German resistance fighter against the Th...
John Mytton

John Mytton

male, deceased (1834)
John Mytton (30 September 1796 - 29 March 1834) was a notable British eccentric and Regency rake. John "Mad Jack" Mytton was born to a family of...

Susanna Verbruggen

female, deceased (1703)
Susanna Verbruggen, née Percival, aka Susanna Mountfort (c. 1667-1703), was an English actress working in London. Her first recorded stage a...
Harry Bensley

Harry Bensley

male, deceased (1956)
Harry Bensley was an English rake and adventurer, best remembered as the subject of an extraordinary wager between John Pierpont Morgan and Hugh...
Francis Dashwood 15th Baron le Despencer

Francis Dashwood 15th Baron le Despencer

male, deceased (1781)
Francis Dashwood, 15th Baron le Despencer was an English rake and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (1762–1763) and founder of The Hellfire Cl...
Laetitia Pilkington

Laetitia Pilkington

female, deceased (1750)
Laetitia Pilkington (born Laetitia van Lewen) ("c." 1709 - July 29, 1750) was a celebrated Anglo-Irish poet and important source of information on...