Born Harold Joseph Laski at Smedley House, Cheetham Hill, Manchester. His mother's maiden name was Frankenstein. He lectured at universities in Canada and America. Returning to Britain he became Pr...
Person, Education, Philosophy, Politics & Administration, Canada, USA
Charles Laughton was born on 1 July 1899 in the Victoria Hotel, 79 Westborough, Scarborough, Yorkshire, one of the five children of Robert Laughton (1868-1924) and Eliza Laughton (1869-1953). On t...
Person, Armed Forces, Cinema, Seriously Famous, Theatre, USA
 American statesman.  South Carolina planter and slave owner.  1783 negotiator for the Treaty of Paris.
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Steven Lawn was born on 28 October 1972 and his birth was registered in the Thanet, Kent, registration dis...
The daughter of the landlord of The Swan public house at Walton-on-Thames. The composer Jerome Kern stopped at the pub while on a Thames river trip and fell in love with her. They married in Walton...
United Kingdom citizen who died in the terrorist attacks in America on 11 September 2001. Leon Lebor was born on 11 July 1950. His birth was registered in Marylebone, London, his mother's maiden n...
For 20 years vice-consul of the United States.
Boxer. Born Gershon Mendaloff at 56 Umberston Street, St George-in-the-East, Aldgate. One of many young Jewish men who took up boxing as a means of escaping the poverty of the east end of London. H...
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