• Richmal Crompton Lamburn (15 November 1890 – 11 January 1969) was a popular English writer, best known for her Just William series of books, humorous short...
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  • Richmal is an unusual English first name which may refer to: Richmal Crompton, full name Richmal Crompton Lamburn (1890–1969), a British author Richmal...
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  • the Conqueror (short story collection), a book of short stories by Richmal Crompton William the Conqueror (film), a 2017 film directed by Fabien Drugeonp...
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  • December 2010. The series is based on the book series of the same name by Richmal Crompton. The adaptation is written by Simon Nye. It is the first adaptation...
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  • Just William (book series) (category Works by Richmal Crompton)
    series is a sequence of thirty-eight books written by English author Richmal Crompton. The books chronicle the adventures of the unruly schoolboy William...
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  • and Jane Welsh. It was written by Richmal Crompton and Guest, based on Crompton's Just William series of books. Crompton was impressed with the film[citation...
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  • the UK and the Richmal Crompton Collection of books and archive material accumulated during the lifetime of the author Richmal Crompton (1890–1969). The...
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  • British television series based on the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. It aired for two series, between 1977 and 1978, on ITV. The series...
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    William in Trouble (short story collection) (category Short story collections by Richmal Crompton)
    William in Trouble is a book in the children's Just William series by Richmal Crompton. The book contains 10 short stories. It was first published in 1927...
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    Just William (category Short story collections by Richmal Crompton)
    short stories about the young school boy William Brown, written by Richmal Crompton, and published in 1922. The book was the first in the series of William...
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    Simon Yates, professional cyclist and twin brother of Adam Yates. Richmal Crompton, author, was born on Manchester Road, Bury; a blue plaque marks the...
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  • and sucking the brown foam from its neck. In a 1959 letter to a fan, Richmal Crompton gives her recipe for liquorice water — "We bought strings of liquorice...
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  • television series based on the Just William series of books written by Richmal Crompton. It ran for two series from 1994 to 1995 on BBC. The series starred...
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    unexpected there makes it more exciting. Bond likes Just William by Richmal Crompton, Billy Bunter by Charles Hamilton and classics such as Alice in Wonderland...
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  • attention as Ethel Brown in a 1962 series based on the William books of Richmal Crompton. She subsequently had leading roles in Smuggler's Bay (1964) and as...
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  • writer. Spenser played the title role in a 1948 radio production of Richmal Crompton's Just William, and also appeared in popular films and TV series including...
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    Brown in the BBC TV series William based on the Just William books of Richmal Crompton. Waterman played the role of Oliver Twist in the production of the...
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  • John Battersby Crompton Lamburn (1893 – 1972) was a British writer, younger brother of Richmal Crompton, who was best known for her "William" books for...
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    (Peter) Alekseyevich Kropotkin (1842–1921) Rachel and Margaret McMillan Richmal Crompton – author (1890–1969) Sir Geraint Evans(1922–1992) Sir John Lubbock...
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    Pennistone, the main character in the 1932 novel Marriage of Hermione by Richmal Crompton Hermione Seymour, the main character in the 1791 novel Hermione, or...
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  • The Dandy, comics of publisher D C Thomson Just William, books by Richmal Crompton Molesworth books by Geoffrey Willans and illustrated by Ronald Searle...
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    an English illustrator, best remembered for his illustrations of Richmal Crompton's William books. Thomas Henry Fisher was born in 1879 at Eastwood, Nottinghamshire...
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    television credits include Ethel Brown in the 2010 BBC production of Richmal Crompton's Just William, Poppy in the fourth series of ITV's Secret Diary of...
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  • Basil Radford. It is based on the Just William series of books by Richmal Crompton. A rascally child recruits his friends as assistants to help his father...
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  • mathematician Richard Bott Violet Elizabeth Bott the character in a Richmal Crompton novel. Wilf Bott Atiyah–Bott fixed-point theorem Borel–Weil–Bott theorem...
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    his portrayal of William Brown in the Just William book series by Richmal Crompton. He started drawing postcards as early as 1913, continuing well into...
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  • William and Air Raid Precautions (category Short story collections by Richmal Crompton)
    21st book of children's short stories in the Just William series by Richmal Crompton. This was one of the books set against the backdrop of World War II...
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  • character Violet Elizabeth Bott featured in the Just William books of Richmal Crompton. In Blackadder's Christmas Carol, Richardson appears as Queenie and...
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  • Flanders and Swann Horrible Histories Monty Python Nigel Molesworth Richmal Crompton R Samuel, Island Stories (London 1999) p. 210 R Samuel, Island Stories...
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  • Holler, Heartbeat Helen Cresswell (1934–2005) – The Bagthorpe Saga Richmal Crompton (1890–1969) – Just William Michael Cronin (born 1942) – Against the...
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