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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|MBE]] | education = [[w:King's College School|King's College School]], Wimbledon
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  • |honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] '''John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge''' [[w:Order of the British Empire|OBE]] (8 May 1904 – 25 March 1996) was a British [
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[w:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] ...a variety of radio and television satirical shows and theatre shows, some of which he also directed.
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  • ...ster]] [[Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury|The 3rd Marquess of Salisbury]]. ...|Eton]], where he played small parts in school plays and at [[New College, Oxford]], where he read [[modern languages]], specialising in [[French language|Fr
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  • ...ted at [[w:Eastbourne College|Eastbourne College]] and [[w:St Edmund Hall, Oxford|St Edmund Hall]]. ...ntadick]]'' (1972), television dramas like ''Casanova'' (1987), an episode of ''[[w:Lovejoy|Lovejoy]]'' (1991) and comedy shows like ''[[Yes Minister]]''
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  • ...s, David Gordon (1935–2015)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, Jan 2019 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/odnb/9780 ...ollege|Marlborough College]]<br>[[St. John's College, Cambridge|St. John's College]]
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  • | office = [[Member of the House of Lords|Member of the House of Lords]]<br />[[Lord Temporal|Lord Temporal]] ...]] in 1959, the first new theatre that opened in the [[City of London|City of London]] since the 17th century.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.britannica.c
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  • | alma_mater = [[Merton College, Oxford]] ...was an English television presenter. He was best known as the former host of [[BBC]] sports and current affairs shows including ''[[Grandstand (BBC)|Gra
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  • ...'s Guide to the Galaxy]]'' and is [[Mornington Crescent (game)#Origins|one of the people credited]] with creating the bizarre panel game [[Mornington Cre ...[[BBC Radio]]'s [[light entertainment]] department alongside [[University of Cambridge|Cambridge]] graduates [[John Lloyd (producer)|John Lloyd]] and [[
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  • | resting_place = The Parish Church of St. Andrew and St. Mary the Virgin, [[Fletching, East Sussex|Fletching]], [ ...'s College]], where he sang in the [[Choir of St John's College, Cambridge|college choir]].
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  • ...valet [[Jeeves]] in [[The World of Wooster|1960s television adaptations]] of [[P. G. Wodehouse]]'s stories. ...studied acting at the [[Embassy Theatre (London)|Embassy Theatre]] School of Acting.<ref name=gaye/>
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  • ...tatus=dead|archive-date=2014-07-26|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[w:Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Gui ...century. Aubrey attended Portsmouth Municipal College and [[Royal Academy of Dramatic Art|RADA]]. His first stage appearance in 1944 was at the [[Regent
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  • ...tainment. His many writing credits include editorship of ''The Oxford Book of Humorous Prose''. ...ly took a job with a firm at Leyton, supervising their machinery, and died of pneumonia when Frank Muir was a schoolboy. Margaret Muir ran a small sweet-
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  • ...Talkback]], which grew to be one of the United Kingdom's largest producers of television comedy and light entertainment programming. ...] in [[Hammersmith]]. He studied Experimental Psychology at [[New College, Oxford]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Cavendish, Dominic |url=https://www.telegraph.co.
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  • ...(Wednesday, 30 August 1922), p. 15.</ref> In 1924, his mother married one of her husband's military colleagues, Captain Marcus Scully, who became his st ...f> At Oxford he was a keen cricketer, keeping wicket for his college team, Oxford Authentics, and also for the Eton Ramblers and [[I Zingari]], but he never
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  • ...ch [[Scottish Television]] (STV) and serving as Rector of the [[University of Edinburgh]]. ...arald Robertson (1907–1975)", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/49503, Retrie
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  • | alma_mater = [[King's College, Cambridge]] ...director, writer and satirist. He performed in the television satire boom of the 1960s, appearing in ''[[That Was the Week That Was]]''. His television
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  • | birth_place = [[Heswall]], [[Cheshire]],{{efn|Part of Merseyside since 1974}} England ...seye]]'', which he presented from its beginning in 1981 through to the end of its original run in 1995.
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  • ...|Croydon]], [[w:Surrey|Surrey]], [[w:England|England]], [[w:United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland|UK]] ...(''[[w:The Misanthrope|The Misanthrope]]'', which he entitled ''The Slave of Truth'', ''[[w:Tartuffe|Tartuffe]]'' and ''[[w:The Imaginary Invalid|The I
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  • | honorific_suffix = [[W:Order of the British Empire|CBE]] | alma_mater = [[w:St John's College, Cambridge|St John's College]] ([[w:MB BChir|MB BChir]], 1959)
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