Flashcards: English autobiographers

James Cameron "Jim" Davidson, OBE (born 13 December 1953) is a British comedian and presenter.

Colonel John Nicholas Blashford-Snell OBE (born 22 October 1936) is a former British Army officer, explorer and author.

Michael Wharton (19 April 1913 – 23 January 2006) was a newspaper columnist who wrote under the pseudonym Peter Simple in the British Daily Telegraph.

Michael John "Mick" Rathbone (born 6 November 1958) is an English former professional footballer who is now a first-team coach at Blackpool.

George Norman Douglas (8 December 1868 – 7 February 1952) was a British writer, now best known for his 1917 novel South Wind.

Humphrey Richard Adeane Lyttelton (23 May 1921 – 25 April 2008), also known as Humph, was an English jazz musician and broadcaster from the aristocratic Lyttelton family.

Mike Summerbee (born 15 December 1942) is an English former footballer, who played in the successful Manchester City side of the late 1960s and early 1970s.

Victoria Louise Pendleton, CBE (born 24 September 1980) is a British jockey and former track cyclist who specialised in the sprint, team sprint and keirin disciplines.

The Very Reverend Charles Merivale (8 March 1808 – 27 December 1893) was an English historian and churchman, for many years dean of Ely Cathedral.

Alfred Oliver Pollard VC MC & Bar DCM (4 May 1893 – 4 December 1960) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

Brian Lunn (1893–1956) was a British writer.

Margaret Powell (1907 – April 1984) was an English writer.

Somerset Struben de Chair (22 August 1911 – 5 January 1995) was a British author, politician and poet.

Jean Alys Barker, Baroness Trumpington DCVO PC (née Campbell-Harris; born 23 October 1922), is an English politician, a Conservative member of the House of Lords.

Richard Clive Desmond (born 8 December 1951) is an English publisher and businessman.

Alfred Alvarez (born 5 August 1929) is an English poet, novelist, essayist and critic who publishes under the name A.

Gavin Hewitt (born March 1951, Penge, London) is a British journalist and presenter, currently BBC News's News Editor.

Gok Wan (born Ko-Hen Wan; Chinese: 溫國興; Cantonese Jyutping: Wan1 gwok3 hing3; 9 September 1974) is an English fashion consultant, author and television presenter.

Karren Rita Brady, Baroness Brady, CBE (born 4 April 1969) is an English sporting executive, politician, television personality, newspaper columnist, author and novelist.

Kathleen Dayus (1903 – January 2003) was an English author from the West Midlands.

(For the American guitarist, see Kenny Brown (guitarist).) Kenneth "Ken" Brown (1940, Enfield, Middlesex – c. 9 June 2010, Essex) was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles.

Lisa Potts GM (married name Webb) is a former nursery teacher noted for saving school children's lives from a machete attack by a man with severe paranoid schizophrenia on 8 July 1996 at St Luke's Primary School in Blakenhall, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, England.

Wing Commander Selden Herbert Long DSO, MC (6 October 1895 – 12 December 1952), was an English flying ace during the First World War.

William Woodruff (12 September 1916 – 23 September 2008) was a professor of world history, but perhaps most noted for his two autobiographical works: The Road to Nab End and its sequel Beyond Nab End; both became bestsellers in the United Kingdom.

Alan Anthony Hudson (born 21 June 1951) is an English former footballer who played for Arsenal, Chelsea and Stoke City as well as the England national football team.

Denise Coates, CBE (born 26 September 1967) is an English businesswoman, founder and joint chief executive of online gambling company Bet365.

Aleister Crowley (/ˈkroʊli/; born Edward Alexander Crowley; 12 October 1875 – 1 December 1947) was an English occultist, ceremonial magician, poet, painter, novelist, and mountaineer.

Catherine Davies (1773 – after 1841), was an English Governess and autobiographer.

Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher GC VR (born in 1983) is a member of the Royal Marines Reserve and a recipient of the George Cross, the highest British and Commonwealth medal for gallantry not in the face of the enemy, for his extreme valour in risking his life to safeguard the lives of his comrades.

Katie Price (born Katrina Amy Alexandra Alexis Infield, 22 May 1978), previously known by the pseudonym Jordan, is an English television personality and glamour model.

Anne Josephine Robinson (born 26 September 1944) is an English television presenter and journalist, known for her acerbic style of presenting.

Richard John "Ricky" Hatton, MBE (born 6 October 1978) is a British former professional boxer who competed from 1997 to 2012, and currently works as a boxing promoter and trainer.

Paul James O'Grady, MBE (born 14 June 1955) is an English comedian, television presenter, actor, writer and radio disc-jockey.

Sir George Edward Wade, CBE (20 September 1869 – 29 November 1954), known professionally as George Robey, was an English comedian, singer and actor in musical theatre, who became known as one of the greatest music hall performers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

George Edward Cole, OBE (22 April 1925 – 5 August 2015) was an English actor whose career spanned more than 70 years.

Neville Eugenton Staple (born 11 April 1955) is a Jamaican born English singer for the two-tone ska band, The Specials as well as his own combo, The Neville Staple Band.

James William Thomas "Jimmy" Hill OBE (22 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was an English football professional and personality.

Frank Davidson "Frankie" Fraser, better known as "Mad" Frankie Fraser (13 December 1923 – 26 November 2014), was an English gangster and criminal who spent 42 years in prison for numerous violent offences.

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Priscilla Napier (5 October 1908 – 10 October 1998) was an English author, specializing in biography.

Keith Floyd (28 December 1943 – 14 September 2009) was a British celebrity cook, television personality and restaurateur, who hosted cooking shows for the BBC and published many books combining cookery and travel.

Sir Roy Colin Strong, CH FRSL (born 23 August 1935) is an English art historian, museum curator, writer, broadcaster and landscape designer.

Major Jocelyn Lee Hardy DSO, MC with Bar (10 June 1894 – 30 May 1958), was a British Army officer famed for his courage on the battlefield and repeated escapes from German prisoner of war camps during the First World War.

Jean Rosemary Shrimpton (born 6 November 1942) is an English model and actress.

Paul Dash (born 1946) is a Barbados-born artist, educator and writer who in 1957 migrated to Britain, where he was associated with the 1960s Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), taking part in their meetings and exhibitions.

Troy Southgate (born 22 July 1965) is a British far-right political activist and a self-described National-Anarchist.

William Holt (1897–1977) was born in Todmorden, West Yorkshire, the eldest son of a coal merchant.

William Pleater Davidge (17 April 1814 – 7 August 1888) was an English comedian, who came to the United States in 1850 and became identified with the American Stage.

William Edgar "Bill" Oddie OBE (born 7 July 1941) is an English writer, composer, musician, comedian, artist, ornithologist, conservationist, television presenter and actor.

Henry John Wale (1827 – 14 March 1892 in London) was an English author, soldier and church minister.

Robinson Elsdale (1744-1783), was a British privateer and autobiographer.

Antony Hopkins CBE (21 March 1921 – 6 May 2014) was an English composer, pianist and conductor, as well as a writer and radio broadcaster.

Sir David John White, OBE (born 2 February 1940), better known by his stage name David Jason, is an English actor and comedian.

Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr (March 29, 1831 – March 10, 1919) was a British novelist.

Charles Arthur "Charlie" Salvador (better known as Charles Bronson and born Michael Gordon "Mickey" Peterson; 6 December 1952) is an English criminal who is often referred to in the British press as the "most violent prisoner in Britain" and "Britain's most notorious prisoner".

Sir Ian Terence Botham, OBE (born 24 November 1955) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.

Ann Noreen Widdecombe, DSG (born 4 October 1947) is a former British Conservative Party politician and has been a novelist since 2000.

Hugh Verity, DSO & Bar, DFC, Legion of Honour (France), Croix de Guerre 1939-1945 {France}, (6 April 1918 – 14 November 2001) was an English Royal Air Force fighter pilot and later a "special duties" squadron pilot working with Special Operations Executive landing in occupied France to insert and extract agents.

Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners (18 September 1883 – 19 April 1950), also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer of classical music, novelist, painter and aesthete.

Sir Cyril Smith, MBE (28 June 1928 – 3 September 2010) was a British Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Rochdale.

Henry Chapman Pincher (29 March 1914 – 5 August 2014) was an English journalist, historian, and novelist whose writing mainly focused on espionage and related matters, after some early books on scientific subjects.

The Hon. Margaret Rhodes, LVO (born 9 June 1925), is a first cousin of Elizabeth II.

CJ de Mooi (pronounced [də moːi̯]; born Joseph Connagh, 6 November 1969) is a professional quizzer, best known as a panellist on the BBC television show Eggheads.

Andrew John Strauss, OBE (born 2 March 1977) is a retired English international cricketer who played county cricket for Middlesex County Cricket Club who was formerly captain of England's Test cricket team.

Daniel Brian "Danny" Crates (born 9 February 1973) is a former British athlete, who specialised in 800m sprinting.

David Baboulene, is an English story consultant, scriptwriter, author of humorous travel books, Children's Illustrated stories and academic works on story theory.

Derek Martin (born Derek William Rapp on 11 April 1933) is a British actor who is best known for his role as Charlie Slater in the British soap opera EastEnders which he played from 2000–11, and briefly again in 2013 and 2016.

Pam St. Clement (born 11 May 1942) is an English actress, best known for playing Pat Butcher in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders regularly from 1986 until 2012, therefore becoming one of the programme's longest-serving cast members.

Jean Mavis Hodgkinson (11 October 1926 – 14 October 2016), known by the stage name Jean Alexander, was an English television actress.

Sheila Hocken is a writer and canine specialist.