* Leslie Hardman, British Army chaplain and rabbi, who was among the liberators of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, was born in the town.

Milne was an early screenwriter for the nascent British film industry, writing four stories filmed in 1920 for the company Minerva Films ( founded in 1920 by the actor Leslie Howard and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel ).

Caricature by Leslie Ward | Spy published in Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868-1914 ) | Vanity Fair in 1904.

The Journal, decoded and transcribed by Leslie Linder in 1958, does not provide an intimate record of her personal life, but it is an invaluable source for understanding a vibrant part of British society in the late 19th century.

Guest's paternal grandfather, Leslie, Baron Haden-Guest, was a Labour Party politician who was a convert to Judaism, and Guest's paternal grandmother's father was Colonel Albert Goldsmid, a British officer who founded the Jewish Lads ' and Girls ' Brigade and the Maccabaeans.

* 1933 – Leslie Crowther, British comedian ( d. 1996 )

They had their second child, Leslie Howard Bogart on August 23, 1952, a girl named after British actor Leslie Howard.

* 1943 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777 is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, killing actor Leslie Howard and leading to speculation the downing was an attempt to kill British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.

Simon Templar is a British fictional character known as The Saint featured in a long-running series of books by Leslie Charteris published between 1928 and 1963.

** Leslie Charteris, British author ( b. 1907 )

* December 8 – Arthur Leslie, British actor ( died 1970 )

* June 1 – British Overseas Airways Corporation Flight 777, a DC-3 with registration G-AGBB, ( formerly KLM PH-ALI, Ibis ), on a scheduled passenger flight, is shot down over the Bay of Biscay by German Junkers Ju 88s, all 17 persons aboard perish, including the actor Leslie Howard.

* June 1 – Leslie Howard, British actor ( b. 1893 )

* September 29 – Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian and game show host ( b. 1933 )

* February 6 – Leslie Crowther, British TV comedian & game show host ( d. 1996 )

His life and the sacrifices he made to keep going despite pain and impending death were the subject of the 1942 British film, The First of the Few produced and directed by Leslie Howard, with Howard in the starring role of R. J. Mitchell, and David Niven as ' Geoffrey Crisp ', based on the Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill who flew the aerobatic sequences for the film in a Spitfire MkII.

Drawing of Bessemer by Leslie Ward in Vanity Fair ( British magazine 1868-1914 ) | Vanity Fair 6 November 1880

The British statesman Leslie Hore-Belisha died of a cerebral haemorrhage while making a speech at the Reims hôtel de ville ( city hall ) in February 1957.

Niven joined what became known as the Hollywood Raj, a group of British actors in Hollywood which included Rex Harrison, Errol Flynn, Boris Karloff, Stan Laurel, Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman, Leslie Howard and C. Aubrey Smith.

In 1784, he negotiated the Treaty of Pensacola with Spain, recognizing Muscogee control over of land claimed by Georgia, and guaranteeing access to the British firm Panton, Leslie & Co. which controlled the deerskin trade, while making himself an official representative of Spain.

Howard was born Leslie Howard Steiner to a British mother, Lilian ( née Blumberg ), and a Hungarian father, Ferdinand Steiner, in Forest Hill, London, UK.

Asquith as caricatured by Leslie Ward | Spy, in Vanity Fair ( British magazine ) | Vanity Fair, 1891

Other actors associated with British comedy films include Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Irene Handl and Leslie Phillips.

* Leslie Grade ( 1916 – 1979 ), a British theatrical agent

In September 1942, the Army Corps of Engineers placed the newly formed Manhattan Project under the command of General Leslie R. Groves, charging him with the construction of industrial-size plants for manufacturing plutonium and uranium.

The BBC producer Leslie Bridgemont was responsible for a show called Merry-go-Round, which featured, in weekly rotation, shows based on the Army, Navy and RAF.

A Mojave Desert Army base near Rice, California was considered the best location, but was opted against because General Leslie Groves, military head of the project, did not wish to have any dealings with Gen. George S. Patton, commander of the base, whom he disliked.

Lieutenant General Leslie Richard Groves, Jr. ( 17 August 1896 – 13 July 1970 ) was a United States Army Corps of Engineers officer who oversaw the construction of the Pentagon and directed the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb during World War II.

A descendant of French Huguenots who came to America in the 17th century, Leslie Groves, Sr resigned as pastor of the Sixth Presbyterian church in Albany in December 1896 to become a United States Army chaplain.

Mauchly's proposal for building an electronic digital computer using vacuum tubes, many times faster and more accurate than the differential analyzer for computing ballistics tables for artillery, caught the interest of the Moore School's Army liaison, Lieutenant Herman Goldstine, and on April 9, 1943 was formally presented in a meeting at Aberdeen Proving Ground to director Colonel Leslie Simon, Oswald Veblen, and others.

A century later, Leith was a prospective battleground when the Army of the Covenant, led by General David Leslie, threw up an earthen rampart between the Calton Hill and Leith to defend the northern approach to Edinburgh against Oliver Cromwell's forces, under the command of General Monck.

Field Marshal Johan Baner commanding the main Swedish army was joined by Field Marshal Alexander Leslie commanding the Army of the Weser which comprised German, Scottish and ( at least one ) English regiments.

After this event the peace of Prague placed the Swedish army in a very precarious position, but the victories won by the united forces of Banér and Field Marshal Alexander Leslie, commander of the Army of the Weser, at the Battle of Wittstock ( October 4, 1636 ), restored the paramount influence of Sweden in central Germany.

In 1919, he attended the Army War College then at Washington Barracks, now Fort Leslie McNair, in Washington, D. C.

During the English Civil War, the Covenanter Army led by David Leslie, Lord Newark, took over the castle ; there was conflict between local Catholics and Scottish Presbyterians.

Lieutenant General ( Australia ) | Lieutenant General Sir Leslie Morshead with General of the Army Douglas MacArthur on Labuan Territory | Labuan in June 1945

Leslie intimated to Oxenstierna that he would stand down from Swedish service but was persuaded to remain and restructure the Army of the Weser.

Alexander Leslie was married in 1637 to Agnes Renton ( died 29 June 1651, daughter of David Renton of Billie ), and in due course his eldest son, Gustav Leslie became a colonel in the Swedish Army.

Many soon-to-be-famous faces pop up, including: Lionel Jeffries (" Murder Ahoy " and " Chitty Chitty Bang Bang ", Leslie Philips, Jane Asher, Anne Reid ( Coronation Street and Dinnerladies ), Edward Mulhare ( The Ghost & Mrs. Muir and Knight Rider ), Patrick Troughton ( the Second Doctor ), Irene Handl, Desmond Llewelyn ( Q in the Bond films ), Sam Kydd, Sid James, Joan Sims and Bernard Bresslaw ( Carry On films ), Leo McKern ( Rumpole of the Bailey ), Alfie Bass ( The Army Game ), Sylvia Kay ( Just Good Friends ), Harry H. Corbett and Wilfrid Brambell ( Steptoe and Son ), Barbara Mullen ( Dr Finlay's Casebook ), Richard O ' Sullivan ( Man About the House ), Geoffrey Bayldon ( Catweazle ), Billie Whitelaw, Ronald Allen, Gordon Jackson.

* Sir John Leslie, 2nd Baronet of Glaslough ( 1857 – 1944 ), Irish landowner and soldier in the British Army

Formally designated as the Manhattan Engineer District, it refers specifically to the period of the project from 1941 – 1946 under the control of the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers, under the administration of General Leslie R. Groves.

Retired General Leslie Groves, who had headed the Manhattan Project, served as chief of research and development during part of this time. M1911A1 U. S. Army semi-automatic pistol manufactured by Remington Rand.

OSRD handed the atomic bomb project, better known as the Manhattan Project, over to the Army, with Brigadier General Leslie R. Groves as project director.

Brigadier General Leslie Groves of the US Army Corps of Engineers became its director in September 1942.

Charles Hope ( 1768 – 1828 ), eldest son of the second Earl from his third marriage to Lady Elizabeth Leslie, was a General in the Army.

Sir Alexander Hope ( 1769 – 1837 ), fourth son of the second Earl ( and second from his third marriage to Lady Elizabeth Leslie ), was a General in the Army and represented Linlithgowshire in the House of Commons.

Lieutenant General Leslie J. McNair, commander of Army Ground Forces, had similar misgivings: once an airborne supporter, he had been greatly disappointed by their performance in North Africa and more recently Sicily.