"the game"" in treating the royal family as a suitable subject for drama. He writes: ""Far from seeming like a piece of republican propaganda, the play actually made the royals endearing."" A later book in a similar vein, ""Queen Camilla"" (2006), was less well received. On 25 February 2009, Leicester City Council announced that Townsend would be given the Honorary Freedom of Leicester (where she lived). Townsend became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 1993. Amongst her honours and awards, she received honorary doctorates from the University of Leicester, from Loughborough University and De Montfort University,"
"in 1980, both titled ""The Elephant Man"". In late 2014 and early 2015, Bradley Cooper starred in a Broadway revival of ""The Elephant Man"", directed by Scott Ellis. Joseph Carey Merrick was born 5 August 1862 at 50 Lee Street in Leicester, to Joseph Rockley Merrick and his wife Mary Jane (née Potterton). Joseph Rockley Merrick (c. 1838–1897) was the son of London-born weaver Barnabas Merrick (1791–1856) who moved to Leicester during the 1820s or 1830s, and his third wife Sarah Rockley. Mary Jane Potterton (c. 1837–1873) had been born at Evington, Leicestershire, her father being William Potterton, who was"
"was awarded Best Student. In February 2013, Townsend was awarded an OBE in recognition for services to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Alongside Jessica Ennis, Greg Rutherford and Nicola Adams, Townsend was presented the award by Her Majesty The Queen at Buckingham Palace. Townsend was born in Rhodesia, southern Africa, and moved to England aged 11. He was educated at a Catholic school in Crawley, West Sussex, during which time he became involved with music band The Cure and was inspired to work in the music industry. Townsend lives with his wife in Wimbledon, Surrey. He has two"
"Parker, chess grandmaster and author Simon Williams, and sociologist Sara Arber. Paul Merrett, a chef who has appeared several times on British TV, was a pupil at Rodborough. JJ Burnel, bass player of The Stranglers, grew up in Godalming. Godalming Godalming is a historic market town, civil parish and administrative centre of the Borough of Waverley in Surrey, England, SSW of Guildford. The town traverses the banks of the River Wey in the Greensand Ridge – a hilly, heavily wooded part of the outer London commuter belt and Green Belt. In 1881, it became the first place in the world"
"burial place for Jane's parents and the birthplace of Jane herself. Also closely associated with the city is Victorian poet and novelist Isabella Banks, most famed for her 1876 novel ""The Manchester Man"". Anglo-American author Frances Hodgson Burnett was born in the city's Cheetham Hill district in 1849, and wrote much of her classic children's novel ""The Secret Garden"" while visiting nearby Salford's Buile Hill Park. Anthony Burgess is among the 20th century writers who made Manchester their home, he wrote the dystopian satire ""A Clockwork Orange"" in 1962. Dame Carol Ann Duffy, the current Poet Laureate, moved to the"
"Sue Townsend Susan Lillian Townsend, FRSL (née Johnstone, 2 April 194610 April 2014), was an English writer and humorist whose work encompasses novels, plays and works of journalism. She was best known for creating the character Adrian Mole. After writing in secret from the age of 14, Townsend first became known for her plays, her signature character first appearing in a radio drama, but her work soon expanded into other forms. She enjoyed great success in the 1980s, with her Adrian Mole books selling more copies than any other work of fiction in Britain during the decade. This series, which"
"of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem in England. Matron Luckes is played by Cherie Lunghi in the BBC series ""Casualty 1906"", ""Casualty 1907"" and ""Casualty 1909"". Matron Luckes appears as a supporting character in the opera ""Joseph Merrick, the Elephant Man"" by Laurent Petitgirard. A volume of letters from Luckes to Nightingale, and Nightingale's notes from their meetings, is at the British Library (Mss 47746). Luckes's letters to her are at the Archives of the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel ( PP/Luc/1). Eva Luckes Eva Abigail Charlotte Ellis Luckes was born in Exeter, Devon on 8 July"
"Bobbin"", is named after him. Steven Patrick Morrissey, former lead singer of The Smiths, was born here in 1959. Ian McShane, actor, grew up in Urmston and attended Stretford Grammar School Peter Noone, Singer with Hermans Hermits Eileen Derbyshire, Actress who plays Emily Bishop in Coronation Street Urmston Urmston is a town in Trafford, Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 41,825 at the 2011 Census. Historically in Lancashire, it is about six miles (10 km) southwest of Manchester city centre. The southern boundary is the River Mersey, with Stretford lying to the east and Flixton to the west."
"Orton, Peterborough Orton is a mostly residential area of the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. For electoral purposes it comprises Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville and Orton with Hampton wards in North West Cambridgeshire constituency. Orton was designated the second township in the new town expansion of Peterborough in 1967. It is composed of the ancient villages of Orton Waterville and Orton Longueville, together with the newer developments of Orton Brimbles, Orton Goldhay, Orton Malborne, Orton Southgate, Orton Wistow and most recently Orton Northgate. All lie south of the River Nene and are thus historically in Huntingdonshire, but"
"the headquarters were moved to Colorado a few years later. The fictional town of Farringdon, depicted in the Judy Bolton detective series by Margaret Sutton, is based on Coudersport, where Sutton grew up and attended school. The school, town hall, and several recognizable residences are described in her books. Judy Bolton Days, an annual festival honoring the books of the late Sutton, is hosted each October by the local Chamber of Commerce. Actress Riki Lindhome was born in Coudersport in 1979. Radio stations WNG591 (a NOAA Weather Radio outlet programmed out of State College) and WFRM (a locally programmed AM"
"he would have encountered poet John Clare, whose behaviour became so erratic that he was removed to the asylum in 1837. William Morris, artist, writer and socialist, was born in Walthamstow in 1834, and spent his early years in what was then rural Essex, close to the outlying sections of the forest. Arthur Morrison, ""the English Zola"", lived successively at Chingford, Loughton, and High Beach in the forest, and – particularly in ""To London Town"" – the forest is used as a contrast to the East London deprivation he wrote about. Horace Newte, his contemporary and friend, lived at Loughton"
"Southport Southport is a large seaside town in Merseyside, England. At the 2001 census, it had a population of 90,336, making it the eleventh most populous settlement in North West England. Southport lies on the Irish Sea coast and is fringed to the north by the Ribble estuary. The town is north of Liverpool and southwest of Preston. Historically part of Lancashire, the town was founded in 1792 when William Sutton, an innkeeper from Churchtown, built a bathing house at what is now the south end of Lord Street. At that time, the area, known as South Hawes, was sparsely"
"Great Celestial Cow by Sue Townsend. She has published many comic and satirical novels and written radio and TV series for the BBC, ITV and CHANNEL FOUR. These include ""Ladies of Letters"" ( co-written with Lou Wakefield) and the Refuge and the Spinney ( co-written with Sue Townsend). Carole Hayman Carole Hayman is an English writer, broadcaster, actor and director. She was born in Kent, and attended Leeds University and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She has been an actress and theatre director and was an associate director at the Royal Court Theatre in the late eighties. During that"
"school, which provided free education to working class children, lived in Portsmouth and set up the country's first ragged school in the city. Peter Sellers, comedian, actor, and performer, was born in Southsea, and Arnold Schwarzenegger lived and trained in Portsmouth for a short time. Several other professional actors have also been born, or lived, in the city, including; ""EastEnders"" actress Emma Barton, and Bollywood actress Geeta Basra, who originally hails from Portsmouth. Cryptozoologist Jonathan Downes was born and lived in Portsmouth for a time. Helen Duncan, the last person to be imprisoned under the 1735 Witchcraft Act in the"
"many other major artists including Joy Division, Neil Sedaka, Barclay James Harvest, The Smiths, The Stone Roses, Paul McCartney and St Winifred's School Choir. Local writer Simon Stephens' play ""Port"" is set in and around Stockport. The play has been performed at the National Theatre, London. The painter Alan Lowndes featured Stockport scenes in his work. The indie pop band Blossoms are from Stockport. The indie rock band Derailer are also from Stockport Paul Eastham, the front man of folk rock band COAST, was born in Stockport in July 1981 at Stepping Hill Hospital. Claire Foy, an actor who is"
"R. Tolkien grew up in Birmingham, Kings Heath, then part of Worcestershire, and was inspired by Moseley Bog and Sarehole, and perhaps by the Perrott's Folly. Philip Larkin came from Coventry. Rowland Hill (stamps) was from Kidderminster. The writer George Eliot came from Nuneaton. Anthony E. Pratt from Birmingham invented Cluedo. Frederick Gibberd of Coventry designed Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. Edward Cave from Rugby made Britain's first magazine in 1731 – The Gentleman's Magazine. Philip Astley from Newcastle under Lyme invented the modern day circus in 1768 – Astley's Amphitheatre. The Castlemorton Common Festival in May 1992 near Malvern, led to"
"century author of ""The Compleat Angler"", Izaak Walton, whose cottage at nearby Shallowford is now an angling museum, and the 18th century playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan was once the local MP. Also, the 1853 Lord Mayor of London, Thomas Sidney, was born in the town. In the early 1900s, the village of Great Haywood near Stafford was home to the wife of famous ""The Lord of the Rings"" author J. R. R. Tolkien. He stayed with his wife, Edith, in her cottage in the village during the winter of 1916, and the surrounding areas were said to be an inspiration"
"the geographical South Pole. The poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the crime writer Agatha Christie, the Irish writer William Trevor, and the poet Ted Hughes lived in Devon. The painter and founder of the Royal Academy, Sir Joshua Reynolds, was born in Devon. Chris Dawson, the billionaire owner of retailer The Range was born in Devon, where his business retains its head office in Plymouth. The actor Matthew Goode was raised in Devon, and Bradley James, also an actor, was born there. The singer Joss Stone was brought up in Devon and frontman Chris Martin from the British rock group Coldplay"
"Director-General of the BBC Ian Jacob; abolitionist John Clarkson; Roy Keane the football manager, and Thomas Seckford, official at the court of Queen Elizabeth I. The clockmaker John Calver and horologist Beth Blackmore have both lived in the town. Musicians Brian Eno and Brinsley Schwarz were born in the town. Tom Leppard was born in the town. Woodbridge, Suffolk Woodbridge is a town in Suffolk, East Anglia, England, about from the sea coast. It lies along the River Deben and has a population of about 11,000. The town is served by Woodbridge railway station on the Ipswich–Lowestoft East Suffolk Line."
"""savage Zulus"". He displayed a ""family of midgets"" which in reality was composed of two men and a borrowed baby. He operated a number of shops in London and Nottingham, and exhibited travelling shows throughout the country. Most famously, in 1884, Norman came into contact with Joseph Merrick, sometimes called ""the Elephant Man"", a young man from Leicester who suffered from extreme deformities. Merrick arrived in London and into Norman's care. Norman, initially shocked by Merrick's appearance and reluctant to display him, nonetheless exhibited him at his penny gaff shop at 123 Whitechapel Road, directly across the road from the"
"Joseph Merrick Joseph Carey Merrick (5 August 1862 – 11 April 1890), often incorrectly called John Merrick, was an English man with very severe face and body deformities who was first exhibited at a freak show as the ""Elephant Man"", and then went to live at the London Hospital after he met Frederick Treves, subsequently becoming well known in London society. Merrick was born in Leicester, and began to develop abnormally during the first few years of his life: his skin appeared thick and lumpy, he developed enlarged lips, a bony lump grew on his forehead, one of his arms"
"what was soon published as ""The Tenth Muse Lately Sprung Up in America"". New England was the birthplace of many American Romantic authors and poets. Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston. Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts, where he famously lived, for some time, by Walden Pond, on Emerson's land. Nathaniel Hawthorne, romantic era writer, was born in historical Salem; later, he would live in Concord at the same time as Emerson and Thoreau. All three of these writers have strong connections to The Old Manse, a home in the Emerson family and a key center of"
"King Governor of the Bank of England are amongst the most notable. Prof Ernest Geoffrey Cullwick, a specialist in electromagnetism and its effects on atomic particles, was born and raised in Wolverhampton. Wolverhampton Wolverhampton () is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England. At the 2011 census, it had a population of 249,470. The demonym for people from the city is 'Wulfrunian'. Historically part of Staffordshire, the city grew initially as a market town specialising in the woollen trade. In the Industrial Revolution, it became a major centre for coal mining, steel production, lock making and the"
"with a blue plaque. At the time of Jane Burden's marriage to William Morris at St Michael's Church, Oxford, on 26 April 1859, her father was described as a groom in stables at 65 Holywell Street. The academic and author J. R. R. Tolkien lived at 99 Holywell Street between 1950 and 1953, between residences in Manor Road and Sandfield Road, Headington. Holywell Street Holywell Street is a street in central Oxford, England. It runs east-west with Broad Street to the west and Longwall Street to the east. About halfway along, Mansfield Road adjoins to the north. New College dominates"
"Peter Ogden, novelist Nicholas Blincoe, Monica Coghlan, a prostitute caught up in the Jeffrey Archer scandal, and the banker Rev. Paul Flowers. Poet John Siddique was brought up in Rochdale and has referred to the town in several poems. Novelist Anna Jacobs was born in Rochdale. World Series of poker winner Jake Cody grew up in Rochdale. The footballer Earl Barrett was born there in April 1967 to Jamaican immigrant parents. Great Britain Olympian Craig Dawson, represented hometown club Rochdale and Bolton Wanderers at football. Rochdale Rochdale is a town in Greater Manchester, England, at the foothills of the South"
"Arthur Morrison Arthur George Morrison (1 November 18634 December 1945) was an English writer and journalist known for his realistic novels and stories about working-class life in London's East End, and for his detective stories, featuring the detective Martin Hewitt. He also collected Japanese art and published several works on the subject. He left a large collection of paintings and other works of art to the British Museum after his death in 1945. Morrison's best known work of fiction is his novel ""A Child of the Jago"" (1896). Morrison was born in Poplar, in the East End of London, on"
"from Orton to the City Centre and continues to Werrington. Route 60 links Orton Malbourne with Serpentine Green, Stanground and the City Centre infrequently. Stagecoach Corby also operate Service 23 between Orton Waterville and Peterborough Queensgate bus station and Service 24 between Thrapston/Oundle and Peterborough Queensgate bus station. Orton, Peterborough Orton is a mostly residential area of the city of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire in the United Kingdom. For electoral purposes it comprises Orton Longueville, Orton Waterville and Orton with Hampton wards in North West Cambridgeshire constituency. Orton was designated the second township in the new town expansion of Peterborough in 1967."
"is recorded in Old English (in the dative case) as ""Soppanbyrig"" = ""Soppa's fort"". ""Chipping"" (from Old English ""cēping"") means that a market was held there. Edward Jenner, in the 18th century, started his medical training in Sodbury, observing people catching cowpox and then ""not"" catching smallpox. RC ""Jack"" Russell: former England cricket wicket keeper and artist owns an art gallery in the town. Sir James Dyson, inventor of the Dual Cyclone bagless vacuum cleaner, lives at Dodington Park just outside Chipping Sodbury. J.K. Rowling, author of the ""Harry Potter"" fantasy series, was born in 1965 at the Chipping Sodbury"
"in 1880. Abbey Hey F.C. club is in Gorton. ""Bouncing Billy Barker"" was a local man who specialised in jumping feats. John Thaw, actor best known for his role as Inspector Morse, was born in West Gorton. Billy Meredith, former footballer lived on Clowes street and married at St Mark's Church. Tommy Johnson, a former footballer for Manchester City F.C., lived in Gorton. Nicky Butt, former England and Manchester United footballer, was born in Gorton. Bob Berry, former England and Lancashire cricketer, was born in Gorton. Jeff Williams, 1980 Olympic cyclist, was born in Gorton. Thomas Evenson, Olympian silver medalist"
"Dialects"" (SED). He developed the questionnaire for the survey together with Eugen Dieth. His pupil David Parry went on to apply the same principles used for the SED to Welsh English, founding the ""Survey of Anglo-Welsh Dialects"" (SAWD) at Swansea University in 1968. Harold Orton Harold Orton (23 October 1898 – 7 March 1975) was a Dialectologist and Professor of English Language and Medieval Literature at the University of Leeds. Orton was born in Byers Green, Co Durham on 23 October 1898 and educated at King James I Grammar School, Bishop Auckland and at the University of Durham. He left"
"""fiasco of the white elephant"" and the ""fiction of the intellectually-gifted chimpanzee, Sally"". In later life, he lived at Dartford Heath in Kent where he continued to publish until his death in 1919. Twenty-nine of his books are owned by the Natural History Museum, four by the Zoological Society and a few others by important institutions. However, most are in private hands. Theophilus Johnson Theophilus Johnson (23 August 1836 – 1919) was an English amateur naturalist, artist and publisher. Theophilus or Theo Johnson was born on 23 August 1836 at Tottenham in Middlesex, the third son of George Johnson, a"
"the 100 metres at the 1980 Olympics. Footballer Matt Jarvis grew up in Guildford, and the town is also home to Olympic kayakers Rachel Cawthorn and Liam Heath. Robert Hayward, the former UK № 4 Thai Boxer, is a resident. Cartoonist Piers Baker, who created ""Ollie and Quentin""; the model Jodie Kidd, and news journalist Cathy Newman were all born in the town. Holly Samos – radio researcher and presenter lives here. Many of mathematician, logician and cryptographer, Alan Turing's earliest years were in this town where his family lived; Michael Buerk, BBC newsreader; Roger Fry, the English artist, critic"
"historical Salem; later, he would live in Concord at the same time as Emerson and Thoreau. All three of these writers have strong connections to The Old Manse, a home in the Emerson family and a key center of the Transcendentalist movement. Emily Dickinson lived most of her life in Amherst, Massachusetts. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was from Portland, Maine, and Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston. According to reports, the famed Mother Goose, the author of fairy tales and nursery rhymes was originally a person named Elizabeth Foster Goose or Mary Goose who lived in Boston. Poets James Russell"