Portal:East Sussex/Selected biography/Archive

August-September 2006

Piers Stefan Pughe-Morgan (born March 30, 1965 in Newick, East Sussex) is a former editor of The Daily Mirror, a British tabloid newspaper, serving in that post from 1995 until 2004. He has also pursued careers in writing and television.

October-November 2006

Harold Bennett (September 17, 1899 – September 15, 1981) was an English actor most famous for playing young Mr. Grace in the 1970s British sitcom Are You Being Served?. Bennett portrayed his character in the show as the very old, frugal and slightly absent minded owner of Grace Brothers department store.

June 2007

Grey Owl (or Wa-sha-quon-asin, from the Ojibwe wenjiganoozhiinh, meaning "great horned owl" or "great grey owl") was the name Archibald Belaney (September 18, 1888 – April 13, 1938) adopted when he took upon a First Nations identity as an adult. He was a writer and became one of Canada's first conservationists.

Archibald Stansfeld Belaney was born in September 1888 in Hastings, England, to a farmer family. His father wasted the family fortune in drinking. Some sources also suggest that his mother was only 13 years old when they were married. His parents separated in 1901, and his father left the country.

Belaney was raised by his grandmother and two maiden aunts. He expressed an interest in nature and American Indians at an early age. He went to Hastings Grammar School, and at the age of 16 – due to his aunts' urging – left to work for a timber yard. He was fired when he dropped a bomb down his employer's chimney.