In 1940, the Old People ’ s Welfare Committee ( OPWC ), chaired by Eleanor Rathbone, was formed as a forum for discussion between government and voluntary organisations.

Rathbone formed the " 1918 " Club in Liverpool ( still meeting at the Adelphi Hotel ) reputedly the oldest women's forum still meeting.

* Basil Rathbone read the entire short story in his early 1960s Caedmon LP recording The Tales of Edgar Allan Poe.

They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.

* Basil Rathbone lived in his childhood here

* Henry Reed Rathbone, present at Lincoln's assassination, lived on Cherry Tree Rd.

There was a little blood on the hem of her dress, for the assassin had slashed Miss Harris's companion, Major Rathbone, with a knife.

A later US radio version by the Theatre Guild in 1947 featured Rathbone with Wendy Hiller and Catherine Rowan, his co-star from a contemporary Broadway production.

) This plot point was also used in a Sherlock Holmes story based on the Basil Rathbone era, where a friend of Dr. Watson's is a baronet who is due to receive his inheritance on the New Year's Day of the year where his twenty-first birthday will be celebrated, only for the law to deprive him of the money as he was born on February 29 ; with the 84-year-old Baronet distraught at the news that 1900 is not a leap year, Holmes helps the Baronet fake his death long enough for his grandson-who is the appropriate age to receive the inheritance-to establish his claim and receive the money himself.

The film stars Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland with Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone.

It was the first of eight films co-starring De Havilland and Flynn, and in 1938, the two would be re-united with Rathbone in The Adventures of Robin Hood.

Captain Blood was adapted as a radio play on the February 22, 1937 broadcast of Lux Radio Theater with Flynn, de Havilland and Rathbone all reprising their film parts.

Rains served in the First World War in the London Scottish Regiment, with fellow actors Basil Rathbone, Ronald Colman and Herbert Marshall.

Along with Rathbone, Gollancz was the foremost British campaigner during the Second World War on the issue of the Nazi extermination of European Jewry.

During this period, he also starred with Basil Rathbone in Tower of London ( 1939 ).

Rathbone was educated at Repton School in Repton, Derbyshire and was engaged with the Liverpool and Globe Insurance Companies.

During the war, Rathbone displayed a penchant for disguise ( a skill which he coincidentally shared with what would become perhaps his most memorable character, Sherlock Holmes ), when on one occasion, in order to have better visibility, Rathbone convinced his superiors to allow him to scout enemy positions during daylight hours instead of during the night, as was the usual practice in order to minimize the chance of detection by the enemy.

None of the episodes in which Rathbone and Bruce starred on the radio program were filmed with the two actors as Holmes and Watson, so radio became the only medium in which audiences were able to experience Rathbone and Bruce appearing in some of the more famous Holmes stories, such as " The Speckled Band ".

The original Broadway production of The Swan opened on Broadway in 1923, with Eva Le Gallienne as Princess Alexandra, Philip Merivale as Prince Albert, and Basil Rathbone as the tutor.

* In the 1935 film The Last Days of Pompeii, Pilate ( played by Basil Rathbone ) is portrayed as a man consumed with guilt over having crucified Jesus.

During the war, he served with fellow actors Claude Rains, Herbert Marshall, Cedric Hardwicke and Basil Rathbone.

In the 1946 thriller Terror by Night, Sherlock Holmes ( Basil Rathbone ), about to board a train, encounters Inspector Lestrade ( Dennis Hoey ) on the same train, ready to presumably go on a vacation, and loaded down with fishing gear.

At age twelve he joined the merchant navy and served a three-year apprenticeship with Rathbone Brothers of Liverpool.

Rathbone stabs him and leaves with the seal.

During a meeting with the British Parliament, Rathbone gives word of trouble going on in China and even presents a gift to the Queen from the Emperor as a Bengal Tiger.

Rathbone sees them and sets fire to the building, but young Charlie shows up and makes off with the Seal, Lin escapes through the roof, and Wang and Roy commandeer Rathbone's primitive automobile ( one, though, which didn't actually exist in 1887, one of the many anachronisms in the movie ) for a wild ride, culminating in them crashing into Stonehenge.

Rathbone nearly defeats Wang, but Wang's rage over his dead father and fallen comrade leads him to suicidally grapple with Rathbone, sending both of them flying out the clock face.

* During the fight with Rathbone, Roy's knocked outside of the tower onto the hands of the clock.

In August 1996 Andie Rathbone joined, a well known drummer on the Chester scene who had been playing with several bands including " DNA Cowboys ", " The Wandering Quatrains " and " Jonti ".

He went undercover to do research for his 1981 book Fast Times at Ridgemont High: A True Story, about his observations of the high school and the students he befriended there, including then-student Andy Rathbone, on whom the character " Rat " was modeled.

Among the several actors who played Vance on the screen were William Powell, Warren William, and Basil Rathbone, all of whom had great success playing other detectives in movies.

Rathbone said he was bleeding to death.

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

Despite his having died at the age of 32, Richard is often depicted as being considerably older: Basil Rathbone, in the Tower of London, and Peter Cook were both 46 when they played him, Laurence Olivier was 47 ( in his 1955 film ), Vincent Price was 51, Ian McKellen was 56 as was Pacino in his 1996 film ( although Pacino was 39 when he played him on Broadway in 1979, and Olivier was 37 when he played him on stage in 1944 ).

Early portrayers of the character Sherlock Holmes, particularly William Gillette and Basil Rathbone, took advantage of this fact when it was required to portray Holmes smoking.

In 1939, he was picked to play the role that would eventually go to Basil Rathbone in Son of Frankenstein ; Lorre had to decline the part due to illness.

Philip St. John Basil Rathbone, MC ( 13 June 1892 – 21 July 1967 ) was a South African-born British actor.

In Green Lantern: The New Corps, during his weeks-long adventure in space, Rayner first recruited Magaan Van ' n Intraktus of the planet Van ' n, Hammeroon, a bounty hunter from Ilskado System, Anya Savenlovich, a lieutenant colonel from the Soviet Air Forces who was in suspended animation after she participated in a space mission in 1964, Garl Rathbone, a miner from the debris belt over the planet Daffith, and Sool, a judge from Daffith.

In 1856, part of Woodhull was taken for the Town of Rathbone.

* Andie Rathbone ( born 1969 ) drummer of Chester based indie band Mansun

At that moment, Lord Nelson Rathbone ( Aidan Gillen ), leads a band of Boxers into the city, who attack the Keeper.

Tony Hicks, who replaced Steele, and Bobby Elliott, who replaced Don Rathbone, joined the band in quick succession in 1963 ; both had played in a Nelson-based band, the Dolphins.

The band comprised vocalist / rhythm guitarist Paul Draper, bassist Stove King, lead guitarist / backing vocalist Dominic Chad, and drummer Andie Rathbone.

Although the band had finished recording most of the album prior to Rathbone joining, they went back into the studio to record new songs Taxloss and Mansun's Only Love Song and re-record several drum tracks.

Despite Chad having proclaimed Draper's writing to be better than ever and the new album to be their best work yet, incorporating the best elements of all the band's previous albums, Draper later claimed that when recording the new album, none of the band's hearts were in it and in 2008 went on to blame Chad for the split, stating that the guitarist " wasn ’ t happy with the working method of writing and recording, but didn ’ t want to implement his own writing and recording method so we simply had to go home and end the band ".. Rathbone described the album sessions as frustrating and revealed that towards the end, the band had split into two camps-himself and King who still resided in Chester, and Draper and Chad who had moved to Weybridge, Surrey prior to working on Little Kix.

In 2011 Rathbone again confirmed his and Draper's desire to reform the band, but added that a reunion would have to include all four band members and that neither King nor Chad were interested.