* George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith, actors and writers, lived at 5 Canonbury Place

George and Weedon Grossmith locate their aspirational Mr Pooter in Tufnell Park ( Upper Holloway ) in Diary of a Nobody.

* The Diary of a Nobody, an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith.

His mother was Louisa Emmeline Grossmith née Weedon ( d. 1882 ).

Grossmith had a younger sister, Emily, and younger brother, Weedon.

In 1892, Grossmith collaborated with his brother Weedon Grossmith to expand a series of amusing columns they had written in 1888 – 89 for Punch.

Walter Weedon Grossmith ( 9 June 1854 – 14 June 1919 ), better known as Weedon Grossmith, was an English writer, painter, actor and playwright, best known as co-author of The Diary of a Nobody ( 1892 ) with his famous brother, music hall comedian and Gilbert and Sullivan star, George Grossmith.

As an actor he specialised in comedy roles, and his typical characters, harassed and scheming, became so identified with him that the " Weedon Grossmith part " became a regular feature of the theatre of his day.

His mother was Louisa Emmeline Grossmith née Weedon ( d. 1882 ).

The Times wrote that the " Weedon Grossmith " part had become a recognised feature of current drama.

The critic B. W. Findon wrote, " Among the survivors of the old brigade – of the artists who thoroughly understand the requirements of farcical comedy, who know how to treat its humour with breadth, and grapple successfully with its ludicrous situations – is Mr. Weedon Grossmith.

* Grossmith, George and Grossmith, Weedon, Diary of a Nobody ( 1892 ).

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From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith Written by Himself.

From Dodford the river passes through the village of Weedon where it flows under the main west coast railway line and also under the Grand Union Canal.

In 2010 the district council decided that the new developments of Berryfields and Weedon Hill, both to the north of Aylesbury, should also join to form a new parish as of May 2011.

The road also features heavily as the home of a fictionalised Meek in Jake Arnott's The Long Firm trilogy, and was the setting for George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.

It also includes part of Watermead and the Berryfields and Weedon Hill Major Development Areas ( MDAs ) in Aylesbury, although new schools are planned for the MDAs.

His skull was kept as a curio by Dr. Frederick Weedon, who also decapitated Osceola after his death in Fort Moultrie and kept the head in preservative.

There are also the remains of two abandoned railway lines, the first being the old Weedon to Leamington Spa ( via Daventry ) railway, part of the London and North Western Railway ( later the LMS ), which closed to passengers in September 1958 and to freight in December 1963, and the second being the Great Central Main Line, which closed to all traffic in September 1966.

Weedon Bec ( also Beck ), usually just called " Weedon ", is a large village and parish in the district of Daventry, Northamptonshire, England.

He also had a starring role as Charles Pooter in the 1979 television adaptation of George and Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody, a role which shows his versatility more than the succession of officers he usually portrays.

Second, he wrote, in collaboration with his brother Weedon, the 1892 comic novel Diary of a Nobody.

The Diary of a Nobody is an English comic novel written by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith, with illustrations by Weedon.

# Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith

One of the most notable British comic novelists is P. G. Wodehouse, whose work follows on from that of Jerome K. Jerome and George & Weedon Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody.

Many etymology sites give an earliest date for the use of " skivvy " as a term for a maid of all work in middle class English households as 1902, but the term is used earlier in George and Weedon Grossmiths " Diary of a Nobody " of 1888 and it appears to have been in familiar currency at that date.

The novel The Diary of a Nobody, by Weedon Grossmith and George Grossmith was set in and around Archway and Holloway.

In 2007 he teamed up with Silksound Books to record The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith as an online audiobook.

Victorian Dad's first name is given by his wife as Lupin in one episode, and the family name is revealed to be Pooter in another, presumably taken from the name of one of the central characters in the satirical Victorian novel Diary of a Nobody by George and Weedon Grossmith.

In 1888, he acted as publisher of The Diary of a Nobody by George Grossmith and his brother Weedon Grossmith, which is still in print.

* George and Weedon Grossmith-Diary of a Nobody

In 1222 the manor of Dodford was acquired by William de Keynes who enclosed much of the land including a deer park which lay to the south of the village between it and what is now the A45 between Daventry and Weedon.

He likes the style so much that he commissions the architect, Harry Weedon, to design his future buildings.

He liked the style so much that he commissioned the architect, Harry Weedon, to design his future buildings.

* 2012 – Bert Weedon, English guitarist and composer ( b. 1920 )

Hugh Weedon Mercer, a Confederate general, was his close relative.

The long level stretch continues past several villages including Nether Heyford and Weedon Bec and is very rural in character.

" Chris Weedon, one of the best known scholars working in the feminist poststructuralist tradition, has sought to integrate individual experience and social power in a theory of subjectivity.

Weedon defines subjectivity as " the conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions of the individual, her sense of herself, and her ways of understanding her relation to the world.

It borders Weedon Island Preserve to the south and is the start of the Friendship Trail Bridge ( old Gandy Bridge ) linking Pinellas County and Hillsborough County.

It comprises the following district council wards: Amersham Town ; Amersham Common ; Amersham-on-the-Hill ; Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill.

Amersham and Chiltern Rugby Football Club play rugby union at Weedon Lane in Amersham on the Hill.

A little west of Weedon the river converges with its tributary source from Yelvertoft from the north.

The first, on the former LNWR Weedon to Leamington Spa branch line, via Daventry, was located near the marina and closed in September 1958.

The town once had a railway station on the former LNWR branch-line from Weedon to Leamington Spa, but it was closed in September 1958.

Nearby places to Daventry include: Rugby, Southam, Banbury, Northampton, Coventry, Norton Weedon and Woodford.

Although the town was only a few miles from the main London to Birmingham line it took until 1888 before a branch line was built from Weedon to Daventry railway station.

On the early morning of Tuesday 26 February 1935 the radio station at Daventry ( Borough Hill ) was used for the first-ever practical demonstration of radar, by its inventor Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Frederic Wilkins, who used a radio receiver installed in a trailer at Stowe Nine Churches ( just off the A5 about three miles ( 5 km ) south of Weedon Bec and in the Daventry district ) to receive signals bounced off a metal-clad Handley Page Heyford bomber flying across the radio transmissions.

Following capture of the cannon, men under the command of George Weedon advanced down King Street.

He was an avid amateur photographer and painter as a teenager, but it was his brother Weedon who went to art school.