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• in a career lasting four decades, British actor William Lugg appeared in Princess Ida by Gilbert and Sullivan in 1884 and the film Scrooge in 1913?
• in 1908, swimmer Henry Taylor (pictured) became the only Briton to win three gold medals at a single Olympic Games until Chris Hoy equalled his mark in 2008?
• during World War I, Britons could be fined for feeding the pigeons?
• after William Finch described Delhi in 1611 as a city of seven forts and fifty-two gates, more Gates of Delhi (example pictured) were built by the Mughals and British — but only 13 gates still exist in good condition?
• the British band Echo & the Bunnymen's eighth studio album, What Are You Going to Do with Your Life?, was the first not to make it into the top 20 of the UK Albums Chart?
• the unit trust was devised by the British Olympic rower Ian Fairbairn, son of rower Steve Fairbairn?
• the English of Selim Aga, a former slave from Sudan, was so faultless that his book was believed to be fabricated by a Briton?
• the Polish minority in Ireland is the country's largest minority group apart from British people?
• the Gloster Survey, a 1920s British photo-survey biplane, had only two prototype models made before production was discontinued?
• a 2006 survey found that the sleeping position preferred by 50% of British couples is back-to-back?
• Samuel Frederick Henry Thompson, a British flying ace of World War I, scored 30 kills in five months of service and won both the DFC and MC?
• British model Daisy Lowe began her modelling career at the age of two?
• British anthropologist Kathleen Gough and her husband were believed to be on the FBI's watchlist due to their alleged Marxist leanings?
• British actress Glynis Johns appeared in the short-lived 1963 CBS sitcom called Glynis, in which she played a mystery writer, with Keith Andes as her lawyer-husband?
• 18th–19th century British fur trader John Johnston was a leader in the Ojibwa tribe near Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA?
• British pianist Antony Peebles has performed in concerts in 128 different countries around the world?
• British psychoanalyst Montague David Eder was a non-commissioned military surgeon for the Bolivian Army?
• Michael Lockett, a British sergeant who was killed by a roadside bomb, was the first British soldier awarded the Military Cross to die in Afghanistan?
• Lucas Murray, who was born blind, is one of the first British people to learn to visualise his surroundings using a technique similar to bats and dolphins, called echolocation?
• Kodaikanal Lake (pictured) was developed in 1863, amid the town of the same name, by the British and early missionaries from the USA?
• 18th-century professional portrait painter Tilly Kettle was the first British painter to work in India?