The Book of WHO?

Compiled and edited by Rodney Dale

An Onomasticon of PEOPLE & CHARACTERS REAL & IMAGINARY

Among the treasures you will discover in Who?

Clio – One of the Muses and goddesses presiding over arts and sciences (history) and daughter of Zeus and Mnemosyne.

The Elephant Man – Joseph Carey Merrick (1862–90), who suffered from the Proteus Syndrome that caused his skull to be terribly mis-shapen.

Kingsley, Sir Ben – (b.1943), né Krishna Bhanji. Actor who achieved wide fame playing Ghandi (1982).

Old Foss – Edward Lear’s cat; when Lear built a new house, its layout was the same as the previous one, lest Foss should be out of countenance.