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Charles Chilton

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Also known as Chilton

New Zealand zoologist and carcinologist (1860-1929)

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Works
10

Top works

  • Ah dieu! que la guerre est jolie, d'après "Oh what a lovely war"
  • Sprong in het Heelal
  • World in Peril, The
  • Journey into Space: The Red Planet 2
  • Discovery of the American West

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Type
Person
Country
GB
Active from
1917-06-15
Active to
2013-01-02

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Listeners
199
Total plays
4,034

Tags

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Charles Chilton MBE (born 1917) is a BBC radio presenter, a writer and a producer. Born in Bloomsbury in London, England, he never knew his father - who was killed during World War I - and when he was six his mother died as a result of having a botched abortion [1], so he was raised by his grandmother. He was educated at St. Pancras[disambiguation needed] Church of England school. When he was 15 Chilton joined the BBC as a messenger boy. A year later he became an assistant in their gramophone l

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Charles
Gender
male
Citizenship
New Zealand
Place of birth
Pencombe
Place of death
Christchurch
Languages spoken
English language
Native language
English language
Image
Charles Chilton, 1895c.jpg
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Commons category
Charles Chilton (zoologist)
date of death
1929-10-25
date of birth
1860-09-27
Commons Creator page
Charles Chilton
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