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...A plaque above the organ nods to the city’s once-thriving ceramics industry, honouring local potter George Meakin, who in 1851 founded ceramics manufacturing company J & G Meakin with his brother James....
...The highest is a late-17th century portrait plate of William III in English Delft (£1,400-£1,800); among the lowest is an 1831 jug featuring a portrait of William IV (£30-£50)....
...“In France one lives in the imagination of the past; in England everything is new and on an improved plan,” the essayist William Hazlitt wrote....
...H Taft IV, a former defence department official and Nato ambassador who is a great-grandson of President William Howard Taft....
...Howard Jacobson, J (Jonathan Cape) The British comic author won the Booker in 2010 with The Finkler Question....
...William Leith’s next book is about entrepreneurs....
...Les Deux Salons 40-42 William IV Street, London WC2N 4DD (020 7420 2050) www.lesdeuxsalons.co.uk...
...William Ransom, the 160-year-old consumer healthcare group, which owns Metanium nappy rash cream and J Pickles skincare, has started to invest again in advertising after several years when the company concedes...
...I had been awaiting this instalment with interest, less because it is the final piece of the jigsaw than because, on viewing its predecessors Henry IV parts 1 and 2 in August, I had wondered how the actor...
...Double-gourd vase Chinese In London in May 1900 William Alexander paid just 10 guineas for this Chinese vase of then-unknown provenance....
...Howard Burleigh, managing director, started the company in 2003....
...Malkin, President COO, W&M Properties Peter May, President COO, Triarc Companies Raymond J....
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