The first female on the channel, contrary to popular belief, was not Carol Vorderman and was a lexicographer only ever identified as Mary.

More recently, Paddy Lowe, the director of the Formula One team McLaren was at Sidney Sussex, as was Carol Vorderman, the popular television host, known primarily for her role on the game show Countdown.

Eijkman was unable to continue his research due to ill health, but a study by his friend Adolphe Vorderman confirmed the link between polished rice and the disease.

Carol Vorderman was involved in a feud with Constantine and Woodall in 2003.

Vorderman did not see her father again until she was 42.

Vorderman was educated at the Roman Catholic comprehensive Blessed Edward Jones High School in Rhyl.

Vorderman was a new type of game show hostess, revealing her intellectual ability by carrying out fast and accurate arithmetical calculations as part of the game.

On 25 July 2008, after 26 unbroken years with the show, it was announced that Vorderman was stepping down from Countdown.

Vorderman recorded her last Countdown show on 13 November 2008 and it was broadcast on 12 December 2008.

After the prizegiving at the end of that show, Des O ' Connor was presented with a bouquet of flowers by the show's lexicographer Susie Dent, and Vorderman received one from Gyles Brandreth.

Leaving school with seven O-levels and three A-levels, in 1962 he read English at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he gained a third class degree, coincidentally the same class of degree as his Countdown co-star Carol Vorderman was to attain at the same university nearly twenty years later.

As the presenter of Countdown, Whiteley developed a reputation for wearing garish suits and ties, and it was common for Carol Vorderman to comment on this.

Notable people from the town include Harold Bird-Wilson, Neil Aspinall, Peggy Cummins, John Prescott, Mike Peters ( The Alarm ), Carol Vorderman ( who was brought up in the town ), Karl Wallinger ( of the band World Party ), author Emyr Humphreys and the leading ornithologist Jonathan Elphick.

The 2011 event, sponsored by Wizard Jeans, was held on 8 June with winners Carol Vorderman and Anton du Beke receiving the awards.

In 1984 she formed her own band Dawn Chorus And The Bluetits with her friend and neighbour Countdown presenter Carol Vorderman and their recordings included a version of Teenage Kicks with the Undertones ’ O ’ Neil brothers ( which was released on Stiff Records DAWN 1 ) and a Peel Session which was broadcast on Radio 1 in 1985.

Carol Jean Vorderman MBE ( born 24 December 1960 ) is a British media personality, best known for co-hosting the popular game show Countdown for 26 years from 1982 to 2008.

Her parents separated three weeks after her birth, and her mother took the family back to her home town of Prestatyn, North Wales, where Vorderman and her siblings, Anton and Trixie, grew up in a one-parent household.

Vorderman did not trace the Dutch side of her family until 2007 ( as part of the BBC genealogy programme Who Do You Think You Are ?).

* 2011 — Carol Vorderman and Anton du Beke

Celebrities include Anthea Turner, Jenny Hull, Carol Vorderman, Edwina Currie, Gloria Hunniford, Jeremy Clarkson, Samantha Janus, Anneka Rice ( twice ), Annabel Giles and Ulrika Jonsson.

The group recorded such songs as a version of The Undertones ' hit Teenage Kicks ( one of the tracks Vorderman had to identify during the " intros round " when she appeared on Never Mind the Buzzcocks in December 2009 – the series often includes questions from contestants ' pasts ).

Heidenstam was born in 1859, of a prosperous family.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

Henrietta was discovering in the process of writing, as the born writer does, not merely a channel for the discharge of accumulated information but a stimulus to the development of the creative powers of observation, insight and intuition.

She was born Lilian Steichen, her parents immigrants from Luxemburg.

`` My mother read a book right after I was born and there was a Lilian in the book she loved and I became Lilian -- and eventually I became Paula ''.

By now she was sure she was going to have a baby, deciding it would be born in India or Burma that November.

He was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1909.

About the only time the Hetman seemed excited was when one of his own pet ideas was born.

On April 10, 1904, his first child was born, a son named George after the late Senator.

Modern warfare was born in this campaign -- periscopes, camouflage, booby traps, land mines, extended order, trench raids, foxholes, armored cars, night attacks, flares, sharpshooters in trees, interlaced vines and treetops, which were the forerunners of barbed wire, trip wires to thwart a cavalry charge, which presaged the mine trap, and the general use of anesthetics.

Deppy is Despina Messinesi, a long-time member of the Vogue staff who, although born in Boston, was born there of Greek parents.

Samuel Gorton was born at Gorton, England, near the present city of Manchester, about 1592.

Whether the Fathers, who died before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary, were justified and saved only by the blood which he shed, and the death which he suffered after his incarnation??

Whether the only price of our redemption were not the death of Christ on the cross, with the rest of his sufferings and obediences, in the time of his life here, after he was born of the Virgin Mary??

In the judgment of Chief of Staff Scott it was ironic that the draft policy of a Democratic President, aimed at Germany, had to be pushed through the House of Representatives by the ranking minority member of the Military Affairs Committee -- a Republican Jew born in Germany!!

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

And she replied, `` I was born in America, but I was conceived in Vienna ''.

I was born angry.

He kept his attacks on Republicanism for partisan campaigns, but that is part of the game he was born to play.

The city was continually harassed with cavalry raids conducted by Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, while Johnson undertook as best he could the defense of the city.

By its terms the boundary between Alfred ’ s and Guthrum ’ s kingdoms was to run up the River Thames, to the River Lea ; follow the Lea to its source ( near Luton ); from there extend in a straight line to Bedford ; and from Bedford follow the River Ouse to Watling Street.

In 1929, George Lawson Johnston was recognised by the British Government and monarchy and was ennobled as Lord Luke of Pavenham in the county of Bedford.

It has been suggested that it was Bedford, but what is known of the early history of Bedford's names, does not support this.

The Canadian dominatrix Terri-Jean Bedford, who was one of three women who initiated an application in the Ontario Superior Court seeking invalidation of Canada's laws regarding brothels, sought to differentiate for clarity her occupation as a dominatrix rather than a prostitute to the media, due to frequent misunderstanding and conflation by the public of the two terms.

Francis Drake was born in Tavistock, Devon, in February or March 1544 at the earliest, when his namesake godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford was age 17.

The first son was reportedly named after his godfather Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford.

Howland Island was at last named after a lookout who sighted it from the whaleship Isabella of New Bedford on September 9, 1842.

By the influence of William Russell, earl of Bedford, he was appointed one of the king's itinerant preachers in Lancashire, and after living for a time in Garstang, he was selected by the Lady Margaret Hoghton as vicar of Preston.

The first PLC, designated the 084 because it was Bedford Associates ' eighty-fourth project, was the result.

Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett, PC, KC ( July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947 ) was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, politician, and philanthropist.

Stanley suffered an injury that made him want to spend more time away from the city, and Benedict was not happy when the couple moved to Bedford Hills far away from the city.

It was nominated for three Tony Awards: Best Revival of a Play, Best Costume Design of a Play and Best Leading Actor in a Play for Bedford ( winning for costumes ).

According to Barrington, whist was first played on scientific principles by a party of gentlemen who frequented the Crown Coffee House in Bedford Row, London, about 1728.

* The airport in Bedford, Indiana where Grissom flew as a teenager was renamed Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport.

However, this tomb was inscribed with the names of two of Edward IV's children: George, 1st Duke of Bedford who had died at the age of 2, and Mary of York who had died at the age of 14 ; both had predeceased the King.

The Whigs were opposed by the government of Lord North, which they accused of being a " Tory " administration, although it largely consisted of individuals previously associated with the Whigs — many old Pelhamites, as well as the Whig faction formerly led by the Duke of Bedford, and elements of that which had been led by George Grenville, although it also contained elements of the " Kings ' Men ", the group formerly associated with Lord Bute and which was generally seen as Tory-leaning.

Elizabeth's mother was Jacquetta of Luxembourg, widow of Henry VI's uncle, John of Lancaster, Duke of Bedford, but her father, Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, was a new-minted baron.

One of Henry V's surviving brothers, John, Duke of Bedford, was appointed senior regent of the realm and was in charge of the ongoing war in France.