Thursday, March 17, 2016

Al Murray is the great nephew of Stephen Murray

We all know that the comedian Al Murray is a direct descendant of the Victorian novelist William Makepeace Thackeray.

But our Trivial Fact of the Week reveals that he is also the great nephew of the actor Stephen Murray.

A young person writes: Who was Stephen Murray?

Only the star of the radio comedy The Navy Lark, Sir Francis Walsingham to Glenda Jackson's Elizabeth R on television and star of such post-war films as London Belongs to Me and The Magnet.

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