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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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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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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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CAMPAIGNERS

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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CREATIVES

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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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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PERSONALITIES

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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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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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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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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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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BUSINESS

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

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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      Susie Steiner
      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
      Josie Goodbody

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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)