Charles Blondin was the stage name of Jean Francois Gravelat, a French acrobat. He was born in 1824 at St Omer and died in 1897 at Ealing, London. He specialised in tight-rope walking, and in 1859 crossed Niagra Falls on a rope 160 feet above the water, repeating the stunt several more times often performing daring tricks while crossing the wire and even carrying a man upon his back while he crossed. Research Charles Blondin
Thomas Henry Huxley was an English naturalist. He was born in 1825 at Ealing and died in 1895. He graduated MB at the University of London in 1845, and entered the royal navy as assistant-surgeon in 1846. He sailed with HMS Rattlesnake on a surveying expedition to Australasia, during which he sent a number of valuable papers to the Royal Society. After being professor of natural history in the School of Mines, Eullerian professor of physiology to the Royal Institution, Hunterian professor in the Royal College of Surgeons, president of the British Association meeting held at Liverpool in 1870, lord-rector of Aberdeen University in 1872, secretary of the Royal Society, substitute professor of natural history for Professor Wyville Thompson at Edinburgh in 1875 and 1876, a member of various royal commissions on fisheries, vivisection, universities, etc, and inspector of salmon fisheries, he resigned this and almost all his other offices in 1885 on account of ill health.
Amongst his works are The Oceanic Hydrozoa (1857), On the Theory of the Vertebrate Skull, Man's Place in Nature (1863), On our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature, a series of lectures to working-men delivered in 1862, Elements of Comparative Anatomy (1864), Elementary Physiology (1866), Introduction to the Classification of Animals (1869),
Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews (1870), Critiques and Addresses (1873), American Addresses (1877), Physiography (1877), Anatomy of Invertebrate Animals (1877), The Crayfish (1879), Science and Culture (1882), etc. Research Thomas Huxley
William Henry Beveridge was the first baron Beveridge. He was born in 1879 and died in 1963. He was an economist who designed the present British social security service.
William Beveridge was an English divine. He was born in 1637 and died in 1708. He studied at Cambridge, and in his twenty-first year published a work on the study of Hebrew, Chaldee, Syriac, Arabic, and Samaritan, with a Syriacgrammar. In 1660 he became vicar of Ealing, and was, after various ecclesiastical preferments, appointed Bishop of St Asaph in 1704. His works include an Introduction to Chronology, 1669; his Synodicon, containing the Apostolic Canons, etc, 1672; and minor devotional treatises on the Christian life, public prayer, etc. Research William Beveridge
Jack Lambert was a Scottish actor. He was born in 1899 and died in 1976. He was an amateur actor for ten years before turning professional in 1930 and working at the Ealing studios.
Jack Lambert is an American actor. He was born in 1920. Research Jack Lambert
The Maggie is an Ealingcomedy starring Paul Douglas, Alex Mackenzie, James Copeland, Abe Barker, Tommy Kearins and Dorothy Alison in a story about an American businessman regretting he ever got involved with the canny skipper of a dilapidated Scottish cargo boat. The Maggie was directed by Alexander Mackendrick in 1953. Research The Maggie
The Man In The White Suit is an Ealingcomedy starring Alec Guiness, Joan Greenwood and Cecil Parker in a story about a scientist who invents an indestructible fibre and is then pursued by the clothing companies who fear for their profits. The Man In The White Suit was directed by Alexander Mackendrick in 1951. Research The Man In The White Suit
Hanwell (formerly known as Hanewelle during the 10th century and recorded in the Domesday Book as Hanewelle) is a village on the River Brent west of Ealing in Greater London, England.
Hanwell (recorded in the Domesday Book as Hanewege and later changed to Haneuell during the 13th century) is a village in Oxfordshire, England. Research Hanwell
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