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• at the age of 13, English cricketer Joe Root is the youngest person to have been awarded a scholarship to the Yorkshire County Cricket Club academy?
• actor Mona Darkfeather, promoted as the first Native American movie star, was actually of English and Mestizo ancestry and a member of the prominent Southern California Workman family?
• Lt. John Weston Brooke, a veteran of the Second Boer War and an explorer with the East African Syndicate, was the first Englishman to gain an audience with the Dalai Lama, in 1906?
• in 1885, over 10,000 mourners attended the funeral of English maidservant Alice Ayres (pictured)?
• in 1895, the husband of English actress Amy Roselle shot her dead and then killed himself, leaving behind a suicide note censuring the acting profession?
• the Winchester Bible, the largest surviving 12th-century English Bible, incorporated the skins of 250 calves?
• on appointment in 1486, Robert Morton became the last English Bishop of Worcester until the English Reformation?
• William Weston may have been the first Englishman to have led an expedition to North America?
• The Greencards (pictured) are a Texas bluegrass band known for their Americana sound, but are composed of two Australians and an Englishman?
• English author Selina Davenport, in an attempt to support herself and her two daughters after separating from her husband, ran both a coffee house and a dance school?
• English actor Ronald Magill played Amos Brearly, landlord of The Woolpack public house in ITV's soap opera Emmerdale, for 19 years?
• English playwright David Edgar was the first pupil in Oundle School's 300-year history to be permitted to direct a school play?
• RAF Wing Commander George Salaman was the last Englishman to be imprisoned in the Tower of London when he impersonated a Luftwaffe officer to entrap the imprisoned Rudolf Hess?
• Augustus Dickens, the brother of English novelist Charles Dickens, abandoned his blind wife in London and ran away to America with another woman?
• Robert Bristow, the British harbour engineer credited for the development of the Indian port of Kochi, also founded the first non white-exclusive club in the state?
• Maxime de la Falaise, called "the only truly chic Englishwoman" by Cecil Beaton, said that "no straight man was attractive" in the 1970s' fashion industry?
• English headmistress Olive Willis founded Downe House School, where her chauffeur-architect-engineer slept in her bathroom?