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BILLY BREMNER

Billy Bremner was a Scottish association football player. He was born in 1942 at Stirling and died in 1997. Billy Bremner started his professional football career with Leeds United, having been rejected by both Arsenal and Chelsea because of his small stature. At Leeds United FC Billy Bremner made 771 appaearances between 1959 and 1976 before leaving to play for Hull City in 1976, leaving them for Doncaster Rovers in 1978 and retiring from playing in 1982 to become a manager. During his career Billy Bremner was captain of Leeds United FC and also captained in Scotland in 54 internationals. Less honourably he was infamously sent off for fighting with Kevin Keegan in the 1974 Charity Shield football match at Wembley.
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CORINNE BAILEY RAE

Corinne Bailey Rae is a British singer. She was born in 1979. Raised in Leeds, Yorkshire, she was bought a guitar by a friend at the church she attended who also encouraged her to write songs. In 2001 her debut album entered the charts at the number one position.
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EDWARD ELGAR

Sir Edward Elgar was a British composer. He was born in 1857 at Broadheath, Worcestershire and died in 1934. Self-taught, for some time he acted as conductor of the Worcester Instrumental Society, and as organist at St. George's, Worcester, but when later he turned to composition he resigned both these positions. In 1892 he produced the Black Knight, and this was followed by several oratorios, cantatas, and other works, including The Light of Life, a short oratorio (Worcester Festival, 1896); King Olaf, a cantata (North Staffordshire Festival, 1896);' Imperial March (1897); Te Deum (Hereford Festival, 1897); Caractacus (Leeds Festival, 1898); and Orchestral Variations later known as 'Enigma Variations' in 1899, an orchestral work based on an unheard theme, which brought him worldwide acclaim. In 1900 his famous sacred cantata, The Dream of Gerontius, was produced at the Birmingham Festival (repeated at Dusseldorf in 1901 and at the Niederrheinische Musik Fest in 1902), and added immensely to his already considerable reputation. He went on to compose other works including 'Pomp and Circumstance', and in 1904 was knighted.
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EDWARD GOODALL

Edward Goodall was an English line-engraver. He was born in 1795 at Leeds and died in 1870. He was self-taught, and early in his career attracted the notice of Turner, a number of whose pictures he engraved, including the large plates of Tivoli and Cologne, and various plates in the England and Wales and Southern Coast series. He also engraved many plates for the Annuals, and the largest number of the landscapes after Turner that illustrate the elegant editions of Rogers' Italy and Poems. He engraved a number of plates for the Art Journal, several from pictures by his son, Frederick Goodall of which the Cranmer at the Traitors' Gate and the Happy Days of Charles I, both of large size, are the most important.
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JOHN SMEATON

John Smeaton was an English engineer. He was born in 1724 at Austhorpe, near Leeds and died in 1792. He showed a talent for mechanics as a young man and although educated for the bar turned his attention to the manufacture of scientific instruments and writing engineering papers for the Royal Society, winning the Royal Society gold medal in 1759 for his paper on wind and water mills. John Smeaton made a special study of canal and harbour construction, and in 1755 he was employed to replace the second Eddystone lighthouse, a project he completed in 1759. he built a number of bridges, including those at Perth, Banff and Coldstream, and constructed the Forth and Clyde canal. In 1771 he founded an engineering club which eventually became the Institution of Civil Engineers.
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NORMAN HUNTER

Norman Hunter was an English association football player. He was born in 1943 at Eighton Banks. He started playing professionally for Leeds United FC in 1961, making 724 appearances before leaving Leeds for Bristol City FC in 1976 for whom he made 108 appearances before moving to Barnsley FC in 1979. He retired from professional football in 1983. During his career he was captain of the English soccer squad twenty-eight times. Norman Hunter played as a defender, and had a reputation for being an aggressive player, the popular saying at the time being 'Norman Hunter bites yer legs'.
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PHIL MAY

Phil May was an English caricaturist. He was born in 1864 at Leeds and died in 1903. He produced illustrations for a number of periodicals in England and Australia.
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SAMUEL SMILES

Samuel Smiles was an English author and social reformer. He was born in 1812 at Haddington and died in 1904. Educated at Edinburgh University, he graduated as a medical doctor but dissatisfied with medical practice, he went to Leeds, where he became editor of The Leeds Times and an active social reformer. Subsequently he became identified with railway management in Leeds and later in London. His first literary success was a biography of George Stephenson published in 1857. In 1859 he published his best known work, 'Self Help', a work designed to show what can be accomplished in life by determination and the will to succeed, illustrated by copious examples from the lives of eminent people.
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THOMAS GRAY

Thomas Gray was an English poet. He was born in 1716 at London and died in 1771. Educated at Eton with Horace Walpole, and at Cambridge, in 1738 he entered himself at the Inner Temple, but accompanied Horace Walpole in his tour of Europe until they quarrelled in Italy. He returned to England in 1741, and on the death of his father took up residence at Cambridge. In 1747 his Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College appeared, and in 1751 his Elegy written in a Country Churchyard, which went through four editions in two months. In 1757 he declined the laureateship, and the same year published his odes, On the Progress of Poesy, and The Bard. In 1759 he removed to London, where he resided for three years, and in 1768 the Duke of Grafton presented him with the professorship of modern history at Cambridge. His chief poems other than those mentioned were the Ode for Music and the fragmentary Essay on the Alliance of Education and Government. As a writer of Latin verse he is surpassed by few, and his letters are admirable specimens of the epistolary style.

Thomas Gray was an English railway promoter. He was born in 1787 at Leeds and died in 1848. He promoted the idea of widespread railway communications and urged the British and other European governments towards building national railway systems, under government control, rather than canal communications, publishing his ideas in 'Observations on a General Iron Railway' in 1820, which was revised and republished four times until 1825.
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WALTER HOOK

Walter Farquhar Hook was the Dean of Chichester. He was born in 1798 and died in 1875. In 1821 he graduated at Christ Church, Oxford, was appointed vicar of Leeds in 1837, and promoted to the deanery of Chichester in 1859. He wrote a Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Biography, a Church Dictionary, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, etc.
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