* January 11 – Richmal Crompton, author

Just William is the first book of children's short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922.

Category: Short story collections by Richmal Crompton

Radio features and documentaries for Radio 4, Radio 2 and the World Service have included programmes devoted to Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper, Robin Hood, Dracula, Peter Pan, Winnie-the-Pooh, Alice in Wonderland and the life and work of Ambrose Bierce, Robert Raikes, Harry Houdini, Terry Pratchett, George Orwell, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Richmal Crompton, Fred Zinnemann, Jim Henson and Julie Andrews.

Other famous people who lived in Bromley include Alex Clare, Charles Darwin, David Bowie, Richmal Crompton, Pixie Lott, Starsmith, Christopher Tennant, Peter Frampton, Aleister Crowley, Siouxsie Sioux, Gary Rhodes, Billy Idol, Billy Jenkins, cricketer Jill Cruwys, the anarchist Peter Kropotkin, the former Clash drummer Topper Headon, historian Richard Jefferis, illustrator Charles Keeping, Formula 1 test driver Gary Paffett, children's writer Andrew Murray, actor Michael York who attended Bromley Grammar School for Boys, clarinetist Chris Craker, Don Perrin, Canadian author who attended Burnt Ash School in Bromley, and Sir Thomas James Harper, an officer decorated in the Crimean war.

* The Outlaws, characters in the Just William series of children's books by Richmal Crompton

* Richmal Crompton, author of the Just William children's books attended St Elphin's School in Darley Dale

William Does His Bit is the 23rd book of children's short stories in the Just William series by Richmal Crompton.

Category: Short story collections by Richmal Crompton

William In Trouble is a book in the children's Just William series by Richmal Crompton.

Category: Short story collections by Richmal Crompton

* Just William, books by Richmal Crompton

It has been remarked that Queenie closely resembles the character Violet Elizabeth Bott featured in the Just William books of Richmal Crompton.

Motion describes the Coleman poems as " a world of comfortless jealousies, breathless bike-rides and deathless crushes ", mixing elements from writers and poets such as Angela Brazil, Richmal Crompton, John Betjeman and W. H.

Other television shows he wrote or created for the BBC included the 1961 action adventure serial Hurricane, the 1962 William children's comedy starring Dennis Waterman, based on the books by Richmal Crompton, and in 1964 episodes of the Thorndyke detective series.

* The House ( Crompton novel ), a 1926 novel by Richmal Crompton

In one of the " Just William " books by Richmal Crompton, William visits an aunt in Frimley for a few days.

He is probably best known for his long series of readings of Richmal Crompton's Just William stories, which show his characteristic and flexible reading voices.

Pratchett has said that Johnny is based, very loosely, on an idea of what Richmal Crompton's Just William character would be like in a 1990s setting.

* Richmal Crompton-Just William

In this respect it shows similarity with other widely read works of the European children's literature, which also depict the adventures of children's everyday life, such as Goscinny y Sempé's " Le petit Nicolas ", Richmal Crompton's " William " series, and Elena Fortún's " Celia " books in Spanish.

* In Richmal Crompton's William and the Evacuees ( 1940 ), William Brown is envious of the special treats the evacuees receive and organizes an ' evacuation ' of the village children.

In the following year Richmal Mangnall's Historical and Miscellaneous Questions for the Use of Young People was purchased, and went through 84 editions by 1857.

Richmal contested the newspaper ’ s contention and threatened to sue it for defamation but resigned from her post on health grounds when BMA announced an inquiry into her antecedents.

She was one of seven children of James Mangnall of Hollinhurst, Lancashire, and London, and Richmal, daughter of John Kay of Manchester to survive infancy.

Richmal Mangnall ( 1769 – 1820 ) was an English schoolmistress and writer of a famous schoolbook.

Richmal was born on 7 March 1769, probably in London.

Richmal Mangnall began to attend a successful school of about 70 pupils, at Crofton Hall, a Georgian mansion near Wakefield, Yorkshire, built in about 1750.

Richmal Marie Oates-Whitehead ( February 1970 – August 2005 ) was an employee of the British Medical Association.

What seemed to have triggered the media ’ s suspicion is an account by Richmal of how she heard a controlled explosion of another bomb by the police while she was busy tending to the victims.

Newspaper reports ( e. g. http :// www. telegraph. co. uk / news / uknews / 1497099 / Pathos-of-the-bogus-doctor-who-became-53rd-victim-of-77. html ) indicate that Richmal seemed to suffer from some personality disorder.

* Crompton, David ; William Thomasson ; Nickol, Brent B.

In 1899 William Lever, Lord Leverhulme, bought Hall i ' th ' Wood as a memorial to Samuel Crompton inventor of the spinning mule.

cEvin Key ( born Kevin William Crompton, February 13, 1961 ) is a Canadian musician and founding member of the industrial music band Skinny Puppy.

Crompton was in partnership with his Blackburn Rovers team-mate, the Welsh international centre-forward William Davies, as motor engineers.

William Morgan Crompton ( 1811 – 1886 ) was a New Zealand politician.

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" Between William de Byrom, Henry de Par and John Hepe, late of Hulme, plaintiffs, and Ralph de Prestwich, deforciant of the manor of Hulme with the appurtenances, and of 9 messuages, 300 acres of land, 100 acres of meadow, 500 acres of pasture, and 100 acres of wood in Mamcestre, Crompton and Oldom.

Don Crompton in " A View from the Spire: William Golding's Later Novels " analyses the novel and relates to its pagan and mythical elements.

The report prompted immediate apologies from Prime Minister David Cameron, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police David Crompton, Football Association Chairman David Bernstein and Kelvin MacKenzie, editor of The Sun at the time of the disaster, for their organisations ' respective roles.

United goalkeeper Les Olive, still registered as a player at the time of the disaster, retired from playing and took over from Crickmer as club secretary, while another former United goalkeeper, Jack Crompton, took over coaching duties after United chairman Harold Hardman had negotiated with Crompton's then-employers Luton Town for his release.

Crompton supplied the traction motors for the first electric trains on Southend Pier.

In 1969 Crompton Parkinson Ltd was downsized and operations moved elsewhere after a takeover by Hawker Siddeley and the site was taken over by the Marconi Company and became the base for the newly formed Marconi Radar Systems Ltd.

He and his wife ( a daughter of Mr Justice Crompton ) were involved in many kinds of social work ; he sat on the Committee of the National Society for Women's Suffrage, and was actively associated with its president, John Stuart Mill.

Samuel Crompton, inventor of the spinning mule, lived there for part of his life.

Neighbouring Oldham ( which by the 1870s had emerged as the largest and most productive mill town in the world ) encroached upon Chadderton's eastern boundary, urbanising the town and surrounds, and forming a continuous urban cotton-spinning district with Royton, Lees and Shaw and Crompton — the Oldham parliamentary constituency — which at its peak was responsible for 13 per cent of the world's cotton production.

About 1779, Samuel Crompton succeeded in producing a machine which spun yarn suitable for use in the manufacture of muslin, and which was known as the muslin wheel or the Hall i ' th ' Wood ( pronounced Hall-ith-wood ) wheel, from the name of the house in which he and his family resided.

About the same time, a good demand arose for the yarn which Crompton made at Hall i ' th ' Wood.

In 1800, a sum of £ 500 was raised for his benefit by subscription, and when in 1809, Edmund Cartwright, the inventor of the power loom, obtained £ 10, 000 from Parliament, Crompton determined also to apply for a grant.

Born in Blackburn, Crompton spent his entire career at full-back for Blackburn Rovers, playing 528 games between 1896 and 1920.

* Charles Arthur Crompton, played in first ever international for England

Mail order processing for Shop Direct Group broadly takes place in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, particularly at the Shaw National Distribution Centre, a warehousing and returns centre in Shaw and Crompton, Greater Manchester.

In 2006, the power transmission and distribution sectors of Ganz Transelektro were acquired by Crompton Greaves, but still doing business under the Ganz brand name, while the unit dealing with electric traction ( propulsion and control systems for electric vehicles ) was acquired by Škoda Holding and is now a part of Škoda Electric.

He bought Hall i ' th ' Wood, one time home of Samuel Crompton and restored it as a museum for the town.

A former Royal Engineer, Dumble had managed the London Omnibus Co. and brought back to service in response to the urgent need for transport by the Brigade in Antwerp-he had been an adjutant to Colonel Crompton who was trying to develop cross-country vehicles for the Army.

Numerous inventors in the textile industry such as John Kay and Samuel Crompton for example, suffered harassment when developing their machines or devices.

For the 1994 season he formed his own team, Wayne Gardner Racing, where he raced for three seasons with team mate Neil Crompton.

It was for 300 pupils from Chadderton, Failsworth, Royton and Crompton.