The Buckinghamshire Who's Who 2008
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Above: Lord Peter Alexander Rupert CARRINGTON KG KCMG CH MC PC
Above: Lucinda Lambton
THE big red book that takes pride of place in many a private library has been highlighting the county’s achievers for 160 years.
Who’s Who is a massive tome, containing more than 33,000 short biographies of noteworthy and influential individuals in all walks of life, in the UK and worldwide. These include the arts, business and finance, the church, the civil service, education, entertainment, sport, government, the law, local government, the media, medicine, professional institutions, science and the trade unions.
Who’s Who 2008 is the 160th annual edition of the book that was first published in 1849 and was the first biographical book of its kind, now among the world’s most recognised and respected works of reference.
Compiling it is a mammoth task and takes a team of people 12 months to research, continually update and complete with around 1,000 new entries added every year.
Each biographee supplies the original information for their entry and is then sent an annual proof for updating. Press and other reference sources are also monitored for day-to-day changes and additions. Who’s Who has become a standard reference book in libraries around the world, relied upon by academics, researchers, business people, government officials and charities, as well as the casual browser.
What’s what about Who’s Who
Published annually since 1849, Who’s Who is the first biographical book of its kind
Each edition includes more than 32,000 short biographies of living noteworthy and influential individuals, from all walks of life, worldwide
An invitation to appear in Who’s Who recognises distinction and influence
Who’s Who includes a comprehensive listing of the holders of UK hereditary titles
The majority of Who’s Who biographees are included in recognition of the distinction they have attained in their professional lives eg MPs, judges, some civil servants
Those whose professions are less rigidly structured, such as artists, actors and sportsmen, are considered by a Selection Board on the basis of their continuing achievements
Entries in Who’s Who are retained
for the life of the biographee, being transferred on his or her death to Who Was Who
You can nominate yourself or a colleague for consideration by the Selection Board. Send a brief CV to nominations@ukwhoswho.com or post it to: The Office of Who’s Who, 38 Soho Square, London W1D 3HB
Lord Peter Alexander Rupert CARRINGTON KG KCMG CH MC PC (pictured right)
Long, active parliamentary career. Posts included Defence Secretary 1974-1979 and Foreign Secretary 1979-1982. Born 1919, married with three children. Lives in Princes Risborough.
Lucinda LAMBTON (Shown right)
Architectural historian, TV presenter, writer and photographer Lucinda Lambton has a passion for pets and a love of loos. For the past 30 years she has been delving deep into the history of these most personal pieces of porcelain and extolling the beauty of their design to audiences around the world.
Her book Temples of Convenience, first published in 1978, was a seminal work on the subject of public conveniences. Lavishly illustrated with photographs taken by Lucinda herself and liberally splashed with intriguing anecdotes, the little paperback became a must-have read in the ‘smallest rooms in the house’ up and down the country. It was followed by a television series that introduced Lucinda as a champion of quirky architecture to an even wider audience.
Her interest in toilets started on a visit to Liverpool. ‘I was in Liverpool, photographing the Royal Philharmonic pub when I realised that there were beautiful public urinals and lavatories that were in dire danger of disappearing altogether because of the lamentous condition they were in. I realised there were many more that were in a terrible state and then hard on the heels of that came the fact that I found out that the water closet was in fact invented in England in the 1500s by Sir John Harrington. I then I felt duty bound to record them before they all went.’
Lucinda, author and presenter of the highly-acclaimed TV series ‘The A-Z of Britain, lives in a rambling former rectory in Hedgerley, just south of Gerrards Cross, with her husband of 12 years Sir Peregrine Worthstone, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph.
She explains, ‘I’d been searching for 20 years for a gothic house in a village within 25 miles of London and I wasn’t prepared to compromise. I knew geographically you could find pockets that hadn’t been touched since time began all round London and this was one of them.’...
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