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Frederick Soddy was an English scientist. He was born in 1877 at Eastbourne and died in 1956. He was a pioneer in the study of radioactive substances.
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Arthur Goring Thomas was a British composer. He was born in1850 near Eastbourne and died in 1892. He studied music in Paris under Durand between 1874 and 1876, and under Sullivan and Prout at the Royal Academy of Music, between 1877 and 1880. His operas include Esmeralda, produced at Covent Garden in 1883; Nadeshda produced in 1885; and the comic opera. The Golden Web, posthumously produced in 1893. His choral ode, The Sun Worshippers, was first performed in 1881, and his lyric gift was well displayed in a number of successful songs. Thomas suffered from melancholia, and committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train in London on March the 20th 1892. A scholarship bearing his name was founded at the Royal Academy of Music in 1892.
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June Wilkinson is an English actress. She was born in 1940 at Eastbourne, Sussex.
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HMS Eastbourne was a British Bangor Class minesweeper of about 665 tons displacement launched in 1940. HMS Eastbourne was powered by two 3-drum small tube type boilers providing a top speed of 16 knots. She carried a complement of 60 and was armed with one 3 inch anti-aircraft gun; two 20 mm anti-aircraft guns and four machine-guns.
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Eastbourne (recorded in the Domesday Book as Burne) is an old English settlement which only became a town in 1883. Since 1799 it has been a popular seaside resort, and today a popular retirement town.
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Pevensey Bay is a coastal village in East Sussex, England.
Pevensey Bay is a bay of the English Channel between Eastbourne and Bexhill.
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