Forty years ago an English writer, W. L. George, dealt with this subject in Eddies of the Day, and said, as an example, that ' Saint George for Merry England ' would not start a spirit half so quickly as ' Strike frog-eating Frenchmen dead ' ''!!

For example, a writer in a recent number of The Queen hyperbolically states that `` of the myriad imprecations the only one which the English Catholics really resent is the suggestion that they are ' un-English ' ''.

Aldous Leonard Huxley ( 26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963 ) was an English writer and one of the most prominent members of the famous Huxley family.

* 1929 – Willis Hall, English playwright and writer ( d. 2005 )

* 1973 – Joe Machine, English artist, poet and writer

* 1908 – Ida Crowe Pollock, English writer

* 1939 – Alan Ayckbourn, English writer

* 1969 – Reece Shearsmith, English actor, writer, and producer

* English writer Honor Tracy lived there until her death in 1989

* 1934 – Piers Anthony, English writer

* 1984 – Elizabeth Goudge, English writer ( b. 1900 )

* 1805 – Christopher Anstey, English writer ( b. 1724 )

* 1574 – Robert Dudley, English explorer and writer ( d. 1649 )

* 1984 – Dane Brookes, English actor and writer

* 1968 – Adrian Lester, English actor, director, and writer

* Adrian Edmondson ( born 1957 ), English actor, comedian, director, writer and musician

* Adrian Truss, English actor, voice actor and comedy writer

* Adrian Weale ( born 1964 ), English writer, journalist, illustrator and photographer

* 1888 – T. E. Lawrence, English writer and soldier ( d. 1935 )

* 1983 – Colin Griffiths, English comedian and writer

* 1686 – Eustace Budgell, English writer ( d. 1737 )

* 1689 – Samuel Richardson, English writer ( d. 1761 )

* 1913 – Peter Kemp, English soldier and writer ( d. 1993 )

* 1980 – Russell Kane English comedian, actor, and writer

* 1957 – Simon McBurney, English actor, writer and director

The song " Kärlekens Tid "-performed by Helen Sjöholm with BAO !--has also been performed in English by opera baritone Bryn Terfel.

* Karl Benrath's German biography, translated into English by Helen Zimmern, with a preface by the Rev.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

* 1958 – Helen Fielding, English writer

Ross begins dating an English woman named Emily ( Helen Baxendale ), and the season finale features their wedding in London.

* 1945 – Helen Mirren, English actress

* 1983 – Helen Skelton, English athlete and actress

* 1956 – Helen Rollason, English sports journalist and TV presenter ( d. 1999 )

* 1963 – Helen Sharman, English chemist and astronaut

** Helen Craig, English children's author, illustrator ( Angelina Ballerina )

For the original 1731 version of the novel, Helen Waddell's ( 1931 ) is considered the best of the English translations.

McDonald's Corporation v Steel & Morris EWHC QB 366, known as " the McLibel case " was an English lawsuit filed by McDonald's Corporation against environmental activists Helen Steel and David Morris ( often referred to as " The McLibel Two ") over a pamphlet critical of the company.

* British — Gaiman, Neil ( has lived in U. S. A. since 1992 ): " Harlequin Valentine " ( 1999 ), Harlequin Valentine ( 2001 ; graphic novel, illustrated by John Bolton ); Greenland, Colin: " A Passion for Lord Pierrot " ( 1990 ); Moorcock, Michael: The English Assassin and The Condition of Muzak ( 1972, 1977 ; hero Jerry Cornelius morphs with increasing frequency into role of Pierrot ), " Feu Pierrot " ( 1978 ); Stevenson, Helen: Pierrot Lunaire ( 1995 ).

Helen Atkinson-Wood ( born 14 March 1955 ) is an English actress and comedian born in Cheadle Hulme, Stockport, Cheshire.

* In the movie English dubbed version of Kung Fu Hustle, The Beast asks if they are the fated Lovers, to which the Landlord and Landlady refer to themselves as Paris and Helen of Troy.

Helen Reed, an English novelist in her early forties with two children old enough to look after themselves, arrives on campus to spend the term there as " writer-in-residence " and to teach a creative writing class — actually sitting in for a professor who is spending the term abroad to write a novel.

However, his seventh grade English teacher, Helen Foley, ' discovered ' him and encouraged him to enter the school's public speaking extracurriculars.

Her film roles include villainous Bond girl Miranda Frost in Die Another Day, Jane Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Helen in An Education, Lisa in Made in Dagenham, Miriam Grant-Panofsky in Barney's Version, Kate Sumner in Johnny English Reborn and Andromeda in Wrath of the Titans.

Edwin was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut to Harry and Helen Land of English Jewish descent.

Arun: vocals / Jane Lister: harp / Gaurav Mazumdar: sitar / Snehashish Mzumdar: mandolin / Ramesh Mishra: sarangi / Pirashanna Thevarajah: percussion / Kenji Ota: tanpura / Barry Phillips: cello / Emil Richards: marimba / Partho Sarathy: sarod / Hari Sivanesan and Sivaskti Sivanesan: veena / Boys and Girls Choir courtesy of Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan / English Chamber Choir / London Metropolitan Orchestra ( Andrew Brown, Roger Chase, Chris Fish, Helen Hathorn, Lynda Houghton, Ian Humphries, Zoe Martlew, Stella Page, Debbie Widdup )

* Professor Helen Cooper ( literary scholar ) ( Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University, a Chair formerly held by three previous Magdalene fellows: C. S. Lewis, J.

Helen Chamberlain, an English television presenter was born in Street in 1967, and the actress Jaye Jacobs in 1982.

The loss of American Columbia product had forced English Columbia to groom its own talent such as Russ Conway, Acker Bilk, John Barry, Cliff Richard, The Shadows, Helen Shapiro, Frank Ifield, Rolf Harris, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Dave Clark Five, Shirley Bassey, Frankie Vaughan, Des O ' Connor, Ken Dodd, The Animals, Herman's Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Seekers, Pink Floyd ( who have been on both Columbia UK and US ), and The Yardbirds.

The son of theatre director Michael Langham and actress Helen Burns, Langham read English and Drama at Bristol University before dropping out.

* English translation by Hugh Rorrison and Helen Chambers, Angel Books 1996 ISBN 0-946162-44-1, reissued by Penguin ( in Penguin Classics ) 2001 ISBN 0-14-044766-0