| Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
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| When: | Monthly on Tuesdays |
| Venue: | Member's Home |
These are some of the fascinating characters this group has studied in past months:
The Historical Figures Group meets each month to look at and discuss a specific interesting person from history. Each member does research to discover what he or she achieved and what kind of person they were.
These are some of the people discussed at recent meetings.
Sam Altman……………...Chief executive officer of OpenAI
Jean Purdy..........…British Nurse and Embryologist
Paul Rivière……….…..…American Industrialist
Olena Zelenska…………First Lady of Ukraine
Harold Gillies……….……Father of modern plastic surgery
Lee Miller…………….……American Photographer
John Profumo……..……British Politician
Eleanor of Aquitaine.....….Wife of King Henry 11
Bert Trautmann…………German professional Footballer
Mary Blagg………………..English Astonomer
Che Guevara…...….Argentine Marxist Revolutionary
Meetings are monthly, always on a Tuesday and are held at a Member's home. The group currently has 15 members so it is at capacity and not not accepting any new members. But if anyone wants to start a second group, Ann is happy to help.
On 18th March, the group discussed Paul Revere December 21, 1734 (January 1, 1735 – May 10, 1818) was an American silversmith, military officer and industrialist who played a major role during the opening months of the American Revolutionary War in Massachusetts, engaging in a midnight ride in 1775 to alert nearby minutemen of the approach of British troops prior to the battles of Lexington and Concord