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Bernard Jocelyn Brooke (30 November 1908 – 29 October 1966) was an English writer and naturalist. He wrote several unique, semi-autobiographical novels, as well as some poetry. He wrote several unique, semi-autobiographical novels, as well as some poetry.
Jocelyn Barrow (1929-2020) was a British educator, activist and politician, who was the first black woman to be a governor of the BBC and a Dame. She also founded the Broadcasting Standards Council, the Black Cultural Archives and the Mayor's Commission on African and Asian Heritage.
Jocelyn Bell Burnell is a British astrophysicist who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967. She is a distinguished academic and award-winning scientist who has contributed to various fields of astronomy and physics.
Jocelyn Toynbee was the daughter of Harry Valpy Toynbee, secretary of the Charity Organization Society (1861-1941), and his wife Sarah Edith Marshall (1859–1939), educated at Cambridge University at a time when women could not graduate (the first Cambridge degree awarded to a woman was in 1948 [2]).
It was expected that Lady Frances would secure a good marriage, being considered a great beauty. [4] On 9 April 1841, Lady Frances married the politician Robert Jocelyn, Viscount Jocelyn, the eldest son and heir of the 3rd Earl of Roden. He was born on 20 February 1816, [8] making him four years older than his wife.
Jocelyn Hunt (born 1994) is a British artistic gymnast. As a member of the England team she won the silver medal in the team all-around event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games . Gymnast
Stevens was born in Marylebone, Central London, England. He was son of Major Charles Greville Bartlett Stevens ("Stewart-Stevens" following his second marriage, to Muriel Stewart, 10th Lady of Balnakeilly, Pitlochry, Perthshire, Scotland) and his first wife Elizabeth ("Betty"), daughter of Sir Edward Hulton, 1st Baronet and his second wife, the music hall artist, actress and singer Millie Lindon.
Jocelyn Adburgham was known as Jocelyn Abram until 1936, when her mother changed the family name by deed poll. She was born in 1900 in Peaslake, Surrey, the youngest of three children of Edward William Abram (1869–1929) and his wife, Lucy, née Ashton (1865–1942). The family was then prosperous, and Jocelyn was sent to several boarding ...