Pym
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Barbara ( Mary Crampton ). 1913–80, British novelist, noted for such comedies of middle-class English life as Excellent Women (1952), A Glass of Blessings (1958), and The Sweet Dove Died (1978)
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John. ?1584–1643, leading English parliamentarian during the events leading to the Civil War. He took a prominent part in the impeachment of Buckingham (1626) and of Strafford and Laud (1640)
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Others to be honoured include novelist Barbara Pym, artist Graham Sutherland, ballerina Alicia Markova and poet, playwright, broadcaster, and campaigner Una Marson.
From BBC • Feb. 13, 2025
Health editor Hugh Pym and senior producer Chloe Hayward go behind the story of the infected-blood inquiry.
From BBC • May 20, 2024
Pym sits there and takes it, slightly slumped into his too-large overcoat, peering at her from under his fedora's brim.
From Salon • Oct. 25, 2023
Rounding out the cast are Michael Douglas as Hank Pym, the elder Ant-Man, Michelle Pfeiffer as Janet van Dyne and Evangeline Lilly as Hope van Dyne, who have both assumed the mantle of the Wasp.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2023
He knew little of the quarrel between King and Commons, and nothing of Laud or Strafford, Pym or Hampden, Ship-money or the New Model.
From A Little Wizard by Weyman, Stanley J.
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