Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: C. Northcote Parkinson, Dirk Bogarde, Reginald Dyer, Alexander Wilkinson, Ian Freeland, William Hacket Pain, Hubert Hamilton, Roland Gwynne, Charles Hubert Boulby Blount, Geoffrey Wheeler, George Paget Thomson, Norman Cohn, Peter Lewis, George Giffard, Reginald Dorman-Smith, Vivian Hunter Galbraith, Edward Hamilton, Sir Arthur Otway, 3rd Baronet, Andrew Leith Hay, David Napley, Sir Charles Monro, 1st Baronet, Clifford Wilcock, George K. Cockerill, Wallace Duffield Wright, Charles Edward Wilson, David Lloyd Owen, Wilkinson Bird, Henry William Stisted, Patrick Spens, 1st Baron Spens, George Pomeroy Colley, John Richardson, Edward Selby Smyth, Adam Curle, John Hamilton, John Metcalfe, Neville Tufnell, Christopher Bushell, Kenneth Lockwood, Clement Robertson, William Harding, Alec George Horwood, Benton Fletcher, Alexander Beattie, George Chatterton, A. R. Rawlinson, Henry V. M. Langtry, Roy Thomas Harris, George Thicknesse, 19th Baron Audley. Excerpt: Sir Dirk Bogarde (28 March 1921 - 8 May 1999) was an English actor and novelist. Initially a matinee idol in such films as Doctor in the House (1954) and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art-house films like Death in Venice (1971). He also wrote several volumes of autobiography. Bogarde was born Derek Jules Gaspard Ulric Niven van den Bogaerde in a nursing home at 12 Hemstal Road, West Hampstead, London, of mixed Flemish, Dutch and Scottish ancestry, and baptised on 30 October at St. Mary's Church, Kilburn. His father, Ulric van den Bogaerde (born in Perry Barr, Birmingham; 1892-1972), was the art editor of The Times and his mother, Margaret Niven (1898-1980), was a former actress. He attended University College School, the former Allan Glen's School in Glasgow (a time he described in his autobiography as unhappy, although others have disputed his ...