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'I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body'

'The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste'

Born in Leicester, Leicestershire
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little - Oliver Goldsmith
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Edward II killed at Berkeley Castle - 1327, Battle of Prestonpans - 1745, Tolkien Publishes The Hobbit - 1937, First Old Grey Whistle Test - 1971
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