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11Michael Melford — Michael Austin Melford (born November 9, 1916 at St John s Wood, London; died April 18, 1999 at Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire) was a sports journalist, primarily writing on cricket but also on rugby union and track and field. He wrote for the… …
12Charles Madge — (1912 17 January 1996), was an English poet, journalist and sociologist, now most remembered as a founder of Mass Observation. As a sociologist, he co founded Mass Observation with Tom Harrisson in 1937, an endeavour which would occupy more of… …
13William Henry White — Infobox Engineer image width = caption = name = William Henry White nationality = English birth date = 2 February 1845 birth place = Plymouth, Devon death date = Death date and age|1913|2|27|1845|2|2 death place = education = Royal School of… …
14Joseph Noel Paton — Joseph Noel Paton, 1866, photograph by Thomas Annan. Sir Joseph Noel Paton FRSA, LL. D. (13 December 1821 – 26 December 1901) was a Scottish artist, born in Wooer s Alley, Dunfermline, Fife. Born to a family of weavers who worked with damask,… …
15Sister Kitty Catalyst O.C.P. — Sister Kitty Catalyst O.C.P. (of the Catnip Patch) is a San Francisco based social activist, AIDS educator, writer, performance artist and underground artist mainly serving queer (lesbian, gay, bisexual, intersex, transgender LGBT and kink)… …
16Leila Megane — (1891 – 1960) was a Welsh mezzo soprano opera singer.Born Margaret Jones in Bethesda, Wales, she married T. Osborne Roberts (1879–1948), a composer. She sang in Paris, Milan, Rome, New York, and London.On 11 October 1922, she made the first… …
17Graeme Hughes — Infobox Recent cricketer nationality = Australian country = Australia country abbrev = Aus name = Graeme Hughes picture = Cricket no pic.png batting style = Left handed batsman bowling style = N/A FCs = 20 FC runs = 604 FC bat avg = 22.37 FC… …
18Whitcoulls — is a major national bookstore chain in New Zealand, formerly known as Whitcombe Tombs. It has 62 stores nationally. Whitcombe Tombs was founded in 1888, and Coulls Somerville Wilkie in 1871. The companies merged in 1971 to form Whitcoulls.… …
19Jane Heap — (1883 1964) was an American publisher and a significant figure in the development and promotion of literary modernism. Together with Margaret Anderson, her friend and business partner (who for some years was also her lover), she edited the… …
20James Valentine (photographer) — James Valentine was a well known photographer of Dundee, Scotland. Valentines of Dundee produced Scottish topographical views from the 1860s, and later became internationally famous as the producers of picture postcards.HistoryThe business was… …
