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  • | death_place = [[w:Midhurst]], [[w:Sussex|Sussex]], [[w:England|England]], [[w:UK|UK]] ...[[w:Leeds|Leeds]] in 1926 and died in [[w:Midhurst|Midhurst]], [[w:Sussex|Sussex]], England, in 1982.
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  • | birth_place = [[Eastbourne]], [[Sussex]], England ...io]] and television presenter and writer, broadcasting almost continuously from the 1940s to the 1990s. His style was similar to that of [[Max Miller (come
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  • | death_place = [[w:Chichester|Chichester]], West Sussex | awards = [[w:Military Cross|Military Cross]]
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  • | birth_place = [[Hastings]], [[Sussex]], England | death_place = [[Brighton]], Sussex, England
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  • | death_place = {{nowrap|[[Hastings|Hastings]], [[East Sussex|East Sussex]], England}} ...before handing himself in to the [[Military Police|Military Police]]. His military service left him with a damaged bladder following an infection, and a red m
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  • ...Mary the Virgin, [[Fletching, East Sussex|Fletching]], [[East Sussex|East Sussex]], England ...er and actor on radio and television, best known as Pa Glum in ''[[Take It from Here]]'' and as headmaster "Professor" James Edwards in ''[[Whack-O!]]''.
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  • | module = {{Infobox military person | embed=yes == Military service ==
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  • ...h he played from 1963 to 1966.<ref name="meyrick"/> Earlier he was cast in military roles, playing Company Sergeant Major Percy Bullimore in the ITV sitcom ''[ ...and also spent many holidays in Devon with his mother's family of farmers, from whom he learned to ride horses.<ref name="biog">[[#Carney|Carney]]</ref> Re
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  • | death_place = Littlehampton, Arun District, West Sussex, England ...lace = St Mary the Virgin Churchyard, East Preston, Arun District, West Sussex, England
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  • ...herine Gertrude (''née'' Wright), Thomas's [[English people|English]] wife from [[Crediton]], [[Devon]].<ref name="exmem" /><ref>GRO Register of Marriages: ...man, to which he answered, "Well yes, my father's Welsh... and my mother's from Devon. Actually I was in Caerphilly and left here when I was about a year o
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  • | module = {{Infobox military person|embed=yes ...lumes of memoirs, six novels, and a volume of collected journalism, mainly from articles in ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''.
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  • ...ng with Derek Taverner, for which Perry received an [[Ivor Novello Award]] from the [[British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors]] in 1971.<ref> ...date=24 May 2007|access-date=3 February 2010|author=Kevin Gordon|publisher=Sussex Express}}</ref>
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  • | death_place = [[Rye, East Sussex|Rye]], England | resting_place = St Thomas's Church [[Winchelsea]], East Sussex, England
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  • ...t recording for children, as well as the recipient of governmental honours from, amongst others, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany. He also displayed ...significant contributions Ustinov had made as chancellor of the university from 1992 until his death.
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  • ...Mad, Mad, Mad World]]'' (1963) and ''[[How to Murder Your Wife]]'' (1965). From the mid-1960s on he also frequently starred in European films, in roles suc ...and, shortly before his death, was living in poverty, existing on charity from the Actors' Benevolent Fund. A charity gala was held in his honour, which r
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  • ...e next several years, still wearing his dressing gown, helplessly launched from crisis to crisis while trying to straighten out his lifestyle. He rather en ...on a planet shortly before Vogons are due to destroy it, Agrajag wakes up from a coma after six months having won the lottery and been recognised by a lon
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