Biographer. Date of birth approximate. He married Sir Thomas More’s daughter Margaret in 1521 and wrote More’s biography. He was a member of several parliaments between 1529 and 1558.
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William Roper
{On the stained-glass plaque:} Margaret, a pious & learned woman, the bel...
Parachute mines were used in the early 40s; the end of the war was characteri...
We can find little about this group but they were very active in 1992 re. Orwell.
Born Saint-Malo, Brittany. Died Paris. Went to America in 1791, returned to France and then in 1793 escaped to England where he lived in extreme poverty until returning to France in 1800. He ...
Poet and novelist. Born Nigeria but spent his early childhood in London. Returned to England to study in the late 1970s. His 1991 novel 'The Famished Road' won the Booker Prize.
See Dick Whittington. The picture is the charming logo adopted by the Whittington Hospital on Highgate Hill.
Created by Christina Foyle (daughter of William), the first guest of honour was Lord Justice Darling who spoke to 200 at the Holborn Restaurant. The Lunches were very successful and moved to the n...
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