Billy Boston
Rugby league player. Born in Cardiff, he spent most of his career playing for Wigan. One of the sport's greatest players, he scored 571 tries, making him the second-highest try scorer in rugby leag...
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Sir Frank Brangwyn
Artist. Born Bruges, Belgium where his father was working as an architect/artist but his Anglo-Welsh family moved back to London in 1874. Largely self-taught he was skilled in various mediums and c...
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Richard Burton
Actor. Born Richard Walter Jenkins at Pont-rhyd-y-fen, Wales. He was adopted by his English teacher Philip Burton, and took his surname. His first theatrical success was in Christopher Fry's 'The L...
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King Cadwaladr
King of the Britons. Born Wales, father of Cadwaladr ap Cadwallon (king of Gwynedd in Wales c.655-682). Legend says that he built the first St Martin within Ludgate church, that his image was place...
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Dean Richard William Church
Dean of St Paul’s from 1871 to 1890. Died Dover. 2019: We were contacted by Ann Hentschel who told us that church was born Lisbon, Portugal, not Newport, Wales, as we had read elsewhere. Ann has p...
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Frances Power Cobbe
Irish social reformer and suffragist. Writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the Nati...
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Tommy Cooper
Comedian. Â Born Wales. Â Member of the Magic Circle. Â Died of a heart attack on stage at Her Majesty's Theatre, live on television. "I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and...
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Sir Montagu Hounsel Cox
Clerk of the London County Council and (co-)author of various publications on London's history, in particular parts of the Survey of London. Active in the 1920s and 30s. London has a lot to thank ...
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