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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Leslie Howard
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(stage name of Leslie Stainer, 1890–1943) Actor who was seen, particularly in the USA in the 1930s, as the quintessential Englishman. On the screen he played Blakeney in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) and Higgins in Pygmalion (1938). He died when his plane was shot down returning in 1943 from neutral Portugal, where he had gone to lecture for the British Council and to make diplomatic contacts.
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