Through the contest, Mates met fiddler Pat Allingham and keyboardist Chris Hartman.

Four female writers of the Golden Age are considered the four original " Queens of Crime ": Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Ngaio Marsh and Margery Allingham.

* June 6 – Henry Allingham, British World War I veteran and world's oldest man ( d. 2009 )

* November 18 – William Allingham, Irish author ( b. 1824 or 1828 )

* March 19 – William Allingham, Irish author ( d. 1889 )

* William Allingham – Victorian poet.

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After graduation, Allingham was posted to the RNAS Air Station at Great Yarmouth where he worked in aircraft maintenance.

Allingham also worked in Bacton, Norfolk, further up the coast, where night-flying was conducted and was later involved in supporting anti-submarine patrols.

The poet William Allingham was also from Ballyshannon.

The last three British-resident veterans of World War I, Bill Stone, Henry Allingham, and Harry Patch, attended the 2008 ceremony but all died in 2009.

* Autolycus is the name of a pet Jackdaw belonging to the fictional detective Albert Campion in the novels by Margery Allingham.

Margery Allingham, in Time and Tide, wrote that her only regret, " is that the story was written in the first person.

* Margery Allingham: The Case Book of Mr. Campion — 1947

On 9 and 16 March 2009, Harry Patch and Henry Allingham ( both now deceased ) were promoted to Officers.

* Allingham, William, Rhymes for the Young Folk, Cassell and Co., 1887.

In 1986 he was identified as the co-author of a book published in 1954 called Flying Saucer from Mars, attributed to Cedric Allingham, which was intended as a practical joke on UFO believers ; Moore has never admitted his involvement.

Davison also played the lead in Campion, a series based on the period whodunnits of Margery Allingham.

While at Iwerks, he met a cel painter named Dorothy Webster, who would later become his first wife.

There he met Dorothy Finch, whom he married soon after — Washington was 20, and Dorothy 17.

It was during his period of National Service that he began performing seriously, and it was also then that he met his first wife, Dorothy, known as Dot, with whom he had three children: Barry, Susan and David.

It was there that he met the legendary Catholic activist Dorothy Day.

It was during this time, while recovering from injuries that nearly lost him a leg, that he met the woman he would marry, a teenaged Dorothy Spence.

Helms met Dorothy " Dot " Coble, editor of the society page at The News & Observer, and they married in 1942.

It was in 1933 on a film, Doctor Bull, directed by John Ford at Fox Studios, that Andy met his wife-to-be, Dorothy House.

That same year, Ebsen met his third wife, Dorothy Knott.

O ' Reilly was first engaged in 1958, to Dorothy Collins, whom he met in 1954, with the marriage planned for 1959.

In 1797 he contributed additional blank verse to the second edition, and met the Wordsworths, William and Dorothy, on his short summer holiday with Coleridge at Nether Stowey, thereby also striking up a lifelong friendship with William.

In 1920 Howells married Dorothy Dawe ( 1891 – 1975 ), a singer whom he had met in 1911 when deputizing as her accompanist.

Another example of their behavior is when Dorothy Parker first met them, Zelda and Scott were sitting atop a taxi.

Bridges met his wife, Dorothy Bridges ( née Simpson ) in his fraternity ; they married in 1938 in New York City.

Ray also had a relationship with newspaper columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, whom he allegedly met for the first time during one of his two appearances as the mystery guest on What's My Line ?.

Paley met Dorothy Hart Hearst ( 1908 – 1998 ) while she was married to John Randolph Hearst, the third son of William Randolph Hearst.

Just as they are about to be sentenced to death by the Mangaboos, a hot air balloon falls out of the sky, and in the basket is the Wizard of Oz, whom Dorothy last met as he floated away from the Emerald City.

Harriet Cohen met the American journalist Dorothy Thompson in 1930 on her first tour of America, a tour which took in New York, Washington and the Library of Congress and Chicago, thus finally establishing a name for herself on the International stage.

In 1926 he married Dorothy Pilley Richards, whom he had met on a climbing holiday in Wales.

In a scene later in the book, the Guardian of the Gates, the first inhabitant of the Emerald City met by Dorothy and apparently representative of its citizens, is " a little man about the same size as the Munchkins.

While studying at Texas, Mills met his first wife, Dorothy Helen Smith, also a student there.

In 1936, he married Dorothy Goodwin Dent, one of the " Maids of Cotton ," whom he met prior to these events.

Hutton married Dorothy Mary Dennis, the sister of former Yorkshire cricketer Frank Dennis, on 16 September 1939 at Wykeham near Scarborough ; they met at an end-of-season dance which Dorothy had attended with her brother.

The Wizard was the first mortal in Oz described in Baum's books, followed by Dorothy and all the characters she met in her travels.