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No. 1 - Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)

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New Haven, Connecticut born Sarah Winchester became one of the wealthiest women in the world after the death of her Winchester Repeating Arms Company...
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No. 2 - Susie Steiner

“I’m sorry I still love him” unabashedly declared author, journalist and “stationary addict” Susie Steiner of Tony Blair on Twitter during the coronavirus lockdown...
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No. 5 - Alan Holmes (1943 – 1996)

Attacked for just £1,000 in his own home in Parkway, Camden, NW1 on Christmas Day 1995, Derry born police mechanic Alan Holmes was left...
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No. 1 - Emily Bolton

A Shackleton Award winning campaigner who “fights miscarriages of justice and demands reform,” practicing solicitor Emily Bolton is married to Reprieve founder and one...
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No. 1 - Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)

Described in The Telegraph’s obituary of him as a “publisher, wit and author,” Michael Russell is best known for writing the spoof memoirs of...
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No. 1 - Evelyn McHale (1923 – 1947)

Little is known about what drove Evelyn McHale to jump from the Empire State Building and be captured in the “most beautiful suicide ...
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No. 2 - Mike Posner

Detroit born singer-songwriter Mike Posner became best known after the remixed version of I Took A Pill In Ibiza went viral. Whilst that single...
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No. 2 - Jessica Jackson Sloan (born Jessica Hurst)

Born in Alabama in 1982, Jessica Jackson Sloan has morphed from a high-school dropout with a baby and a drug addict, jailbird husband in...
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No. 1 - Alfie Diaper

Showjumper, show rider and jockey Alfie Diaper was described as an “all-round horseman” by Horse & Hound in April 2019 aged just nine. Dorset...
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No. 3 - Dame Louise Casey DBE, CB

In 2018, Tony Blair’s former ‘homelessness tsar’ Dame Louise Casey “blasted” Theresa May’s government as anything but “kind.” A former director of Shelter and...
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No. 8 - The Rt. Hon. The Lord Sumption OBE, PC, FRHistS, FSA

Eton and Oxford educated former Supreme Court judge and historian Jonathan Sumption, as a barrister, successfully represented the billionaire Roman Abramovich against the late...
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No. 1 - Sarah Winchester (née Pardee, 1839 – 1922)

New Haven, Connecticut born Sarah Winchester became one of the wealthiest women in the world after the death of her Winchester Repeating Arms Company...
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PERSONALITIES

No. 1 - Tommy Banks

Born in 1989, rising star Michelin Star winning chef  Tommy Banks’ establishment, The Black Swan at Oldstead in North Yorkshire, was voted the best...
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    Michael Russell (1933 – 2020) – The man who brought J. R. Hartley to life – Publisher Michael Russell brought the mythical J. R. Hartley by writing his spoof memoirs. He was known for being witty and loved horses and fishing.

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    Michael Russell (1933 – 2020)
    Susie Steiner – Journalist turned best-selling crime author; she loves Tony Blair – Registered blind former ‘Guardian’ commissioning editor Susie Steiner helped ‘Keep Calm’ go viral in 2005 and became a novelist in 2013. This Londoner’s best-selling works include ‘Missing, Presumed.’

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    Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)

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    Jackie Collins OBE (born Jacqueline Collins, 1937 – 2015)
    Ann Barr

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    Ann Barr (1929 – 2015)
    Malcolm Gladwell

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    Malcolm Gladwell
    Merlin Holland

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    Merlin Holland
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    Josie Goodbody

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    Jeanette Winterson OBE

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    Anna Smith

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    Erika Leonard James (E. L. James)

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    Mary Berry CBE

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    Philip K. Dick (1928 – 1982; AKA Richard Phillipps and Jack Dowland)

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    Seamus Heaney (1939 – 2013)

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    Katherine “Kate” Mosse OBE

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    Anne Dunhill

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    John Armstrong

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    Derek Blasberg

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    Alex Preston

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    Dominick Dunne (1925 – 2009)
    Pippa Middleton

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    Pippa Middleton

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    Richard Mason

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    Arthur Ransome (1864 – 1967)

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    Susan Hill CBE

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    Helena Matheopolous

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    Steven Berkoff

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    Aita Ighodaro

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    Julian Fellowes (The Lord Fellowes of West Stafford DL, also known as Julian Kitchener-Fellowes)