* 1911 – Mervyn Peake, English writer and illustrator ( d. 1968 )

Mervyn Laurence Peake ( 9 July 1911 – 17 November 1968 ) was a British writer, artist, poet and illustrator.

Mervyn Peake attended Tientsin Grammar School until the family left for England in December 1922 via the Trans-Siberian Railway.

Mervyn Peake never returned to China but it has been noted that Chinese influences can be detected in Peake's works, not least in the castle of Gormenghast itself, which in some respects echoes the ancient walled city of Peking ( Beijing ) as well as the enclosed compound where he grew up in Tientsin ( Tianjin ).

The Collected Poems of Mervyn Peake was published by Carcanet Press in June 2008.

Other collections include The Drawings of Mervyn Peake ( 1974 ), Writings and Drawings ( 1974 ), and Mervyn Peake: the man and his art ( 2006 ).

The serial was titled " The History of Titus Groan " and adapted all three novels written by Mervyn Peake and the recently discovered concluding volume, " Titus Awakes " completed by his widow, Maeve Gilmore.

* Drawings by Mervyn Peake ( 1949 )

* The Drawings of Mervyn Peake ( 1974 )

* Mervyn Peake: Writings and Drawings ( 1974 )

* " Mervyn Peake is a finer poet than Edgar Allan Poe, and he is therefore able to maintain his world of fantasy brilliantly through three novels.

) ( 2006 ) Mervyn Peake: the man and his art.

* Winnington, G. Peter ( 2000 ) Vast Alchemies: the life and work of Mervyn Peake.

* Peake, Mervyn ( ca. 1950 ) ' Notes towards a Projected Autobiography ', printed in Maeve Gilmore ( ed.

), Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings of Mervyn Peake ( London: Allen Lane, 1978 )

* Mervyn Peake, the official site

* The Scriptorium: Mervyn Peake

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Shortly after the film was released, Cleese and Palin engaged in what would become a notorious debate on the BBC2 discussion programme Friday Night, Saturday Morning, in which Malcolm Muggeridge and Mervyn Stockwood, the Bishop of Southwark, put the case against the film.

In 1956 Mervyn and Maeve visited Spain, financed by a friend who hoped that Peake's health, which was already declining, would be improved by the holiday.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

However, Sayers ' first reference to Le Fanu appears in an earlier Lord Peter Wimsey novel, The Nine Tailors ( 1934 ), where he is quoted directly ( from Wylder's Hand, in the opening to the seventh " part " of Chapter II and again in the opening to the second " part " of Chapter III ) and a mysterious letter is referred to ( first by Wimsey's valet, Mervyn Bunter ) as " written by a person of no inconsiderable literary ability, who had studied the works of Sheridan Lefanu and was, if I may be permitted the expression, bats in the belfry, my lord.

One of his last screen appearances was in the BBC dramatisation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, and he was ( almost inevitably ) noted as an ad-libber.

Their only child, Margaret ( 1786 – 1858 ), was the mother of Mervyn Herbert Nevil Story-Maskelyne ( 1823 – 1911 ) professor of mineralogy at Oxford ( 1856 – 95 ).

Later she enrolled in acting class and was selected as an extra in Mervyn LeRoy's 1951 film Quo Vadis, launching her career as a motion picture actress.

In 1884, the Art Workers Guild was initiated by five young architects, William Lethaby, Edward Prior, Ernest Newton, Mervyn Macartney and Gerald C. Horsley, with the goal of integrating design and making.

Bryant pivoted around and fatally shot Mervyn Howard, a football administrator, who was still seated.

It was written by Robert Lord and Byron Morgan from the play by Louis Weitzenkorn, and directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy.

The strength of LSE is that it is close to the political process: Mervyn King, was a former LSE professor.

It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Irving Asher.

It was directed by Mervyn LeRoy and produced by Sidney Franklin from a screenplay by Paul Osborn, Paul H. Rameau, and Aldous Huxley ( uncredited ), adapted from the biography by Eve Curie.

* Mervyn LeRoy replaced Albert Lewin, who was fired shortly before production began.

In 2000 Sykes appeared as Mollocks, the servant of Dr Prunesquallor, in the BBC's mini-series adaptation of Mervyn Peake's Gormenghast, which was the last production to feature both Milligan and Sykes ( although they did not appear together on screen ).

Susan's maternal grandfather was Mervyn Wingfield, 8th Viscount Powerscourt.

* Mervyn Peake's father bought a medical practice at 55 Woodcote Road in 1923, and " Woodcroft " was his home until the early 1930s.

Throughout the 702-performance run of Gypsy, Mervyn LeRoy saw it numerous times, and he repeatedly assured Merman that he planned to cast her in the film adaptation he was preparing.

Johns was born in Pretoria, South Africa, the daughter of Alys Maude ( née Steele-Payne ), a pianist, and Mervyn Johns ( 1899 – 1992 ), the British stage and film actor.

Sir Mervyn Allister King, GBE, FBA ( born 30 March 1948 ) is the Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of the Monetary Policy Committee.

Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning ( born 17 August 1946 ) was the fourth and sixth Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the former Political Leader of the People's National Movement ( PNM ).

Famous people born in Chesham Bois were the crime writer and composer Edmund Crispin, Lieutenant Commander Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy during World War II and Mervyn King, current governor of the Bank of England.

Mervyn Kitchen was born in Nailsea in 1940, He became an English first-class cricketer.

* Mervyn Niall Wingfield, 10th Viscount Powerscourt ( born 1935 )

Mervyn Anthony Wingfield ( born 1963 )

* Ivor Mervyn Vigors Guest, 4th Viscount Wimborne ( born 1968 )

Griffin was born into an Irish-American family on July 6, 1925, in San Mateo, California, to Mervyn Edward Griffin, Sr., a stock broker, and Rita Elizabeth Griffin ( née Robinson ), a homemaker.

Mervyn Gregory Hughes ( born 23 November 1961 ) is a former Australian cricketer.

Dean Mervyn Jones AM ( born 24 March 1961 ) is a retired Australian cricketer, and is presently a coach.

Mervyn Taylor ( born 1 December 1931 ) is a former solicitor, Irish Labour Party politician and government minister.

The conservationist Mervyn Cowie was born in Nairobi.

Mervyn Malcolm Dymally ( born May 12, 1926 in Cedros, Trinidad and Tobago ) is a California Democratic politician of mixed Indian and Afro-Trinidadian heritage.

Kimberly Anne Guglielmo, née Kimberly Anne Scaramastro, was born on June 29, 1973 into the marriage of Kimberly Hoskins ( a U. S. citizen from Texas ) and Mervyn Osborne Hagger ( a UK citizen living in Texas.

c. 1880-1889 Mervyn was born in Kent, one of seven, a brother was called Meredith ( Clouds of Witness & Thrones, Dominations ); Lord Peter was born in 1890 and is described as being the younger ( Whose Body?

Hope and Mervyn Bunter have a son, Peter Meredith, born December 1937.

Mervyn Rose ( born 23 January 1930 ) is a former Australian male tennis player.

John Mervyn Manningham-Buller, 2nd Viscount Dilhorne ( born February 28, 1932 ) is a British barrister and peer.

Mervyn Manningham-Buller ( born 1962 )

Mervyn Morris was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and studied at the University College of the West Indies and as a Rhodes Scholar at St Edmund Hall, Oxford.

Mervyn was born in Nairobi, Kenya, but educated in Britain before embarking on a stage career, spending five years in provincial theatre.

Mervyn " Muff " Winwood ( born 15 June 1943, Erdington, Birmingham ) is an English songwriter and record producer, and the older brother of Steve Winwood.