Famous People in the 1891 Census - can you find them?
Agatha Christie was born in 1890 Torquay, in the county of Devon, as the daughter of Frederick Miller, an American, and Clarissa Miller. From the 1920s until the 1970s Agatha Christie was the world's most popular mystery author, reportedly selling more than one billion books worldwide. She died in 1976.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965) was Great Britain's greatest 20th-century statesman and is best known for his courageous leadership as prime minister during World War II. Churchill was born November 30, 1874, the son of Lord Randolph Churchill and the American heiress Jennie Jerome.
Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay on December 30, 1865, in the J. J. School of Arts, of which, his father, Lockwood Kipling, was head. Rudyard Kipling died on January 18, 1936 in London. He was buried in the Poet's Corner at Westminster Abbey. While living in Vermont with his wife, an American, Kipling wrote The Jungle Books, Just So Stories, and Kim. These are his most well-known works.
Born: December 30, 1865, Bombay, India.
Died: January 18, 1936, London, England.
Awarded the Nobel prize in literature, 1907.
Alan Alexander Milne was born in London on January 18, 1882, the third and youngest of three sons born to John Vine Milne and Sarah Maria Heginbotham. His father was a schoolmaster at the Henley House where Alan did get his first education. He was the author of many books, but is best known for his Winnie the Pooh series.
Alfred Tennyson was born August 6th, 1809, at Somersby, Lincolnshire, fourth of twelve children of George and Elizabeth (Fytche) Tennyson. This English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry succeeded Wordsworth as Poet Laureate in 1850.
H.G. Wells, born in the London suburb of Bromley in 1866, began his literary career in 1895 with the publication of his first novel, "The Time Machine."
Following "The Time Machine" was "The Island of Dr. Moreau" (1896), "The Invisible Man" (1897), "The War of the Worlds" (1898), "When the Sleeper Wakes" (1899), and "The First Men in the Moon" (1901). He died in London in 1946
Oscar Wilde was born on 16 October 1854 in Dublin. Christened Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wilde, he was the second son of a distinguished Irish Protestant family. His father was an eye surgeon. His mother, Jane Francesca Elgee (pseudonym “Speranza”), was a poet. Wilde wrote many published works, including The Importance of Being Earnest and died in France in 1900.
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