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Humphrey William Bouverie Carpenter was an English biographer, writer, and radio broadcaster. Carpenter was born, died, and lived practically all of... his life, in the city of Oxford. His father was the Rt. Rev. Harry James Carpenter. His mother was Urith Monica Trevelyan, who had training in the Fröbel teaching method. As a child, he lived in the Warden's Lodgings at Keble College, Oxford, where his father served as Warden until his appointment as Bishop of Oxford. He was educated at the Dragon School Oxford, and Marlborough College, and then read English at Keble. During his appointment at BBC Radio Oxford, Humphrey met his future wife, Mari Prichard ; they married in 1973. His notable output of biographies included: J. R. R. Tolkien , The Inklings , W. H. Auden , Ezra Pound , Evelyn Waugh , Benjamin Britten , Robert Runcie , and Spike Milligan .
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George Petros Efstathiou FRS is a British astrophysicist who is Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology at the... University of Cambridge. He was previously Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford. Efstathiou was educated at Somerset Comprehensive School before studying at Keble College, Oxford and the University of Durham. He was a research assistant in the Astronomy Department of University of California Berkeley from 1979 to 1980, then moved to the Institute of Astronomy at the University of Cambridge, holding research fellowships at King's College, Cambridge from 1980 to 1988. He was Head of Astrophysics at the Institute from 1988 to 1994, when he was appointed the Savilian Professor of Astronomy at the University of Oxford . He returned to Cambridge in 1997 as Professor of Astrophysics and a Fellow of King's College. He became Director of the Kavli Institute of Cosmology in 2008.
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