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Happy Birthday ~Floella Benjamin

22/9/2020

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Click On This Day 23 September 1949 Baroness Floella Benjamin was born

Baroness Floella Benjamin, OBE, DL (born 23 September 1949) a Trinidadian-British actress, author, television presenter, singer, businesswoman and politician. She is known as presenter of children's programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward.

Baroness Floella Benjamin, a longtime resident of Streatham, was the Chancellor of Exeter University from 2006-16
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Coincidentally, Streatham's links to the University don't end there as there is a campus at Exeter called the Streatham campus
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Richard Thornton West was a resident of "Langdon" at 45 Streatham Hill. The son of Richard Thornton William Ogle West and Margaret Thornton of the wealthy Thornton family of Clapham.
Richard Thornton West was an East India merchant who married Sarah Bowerman in 1864. They moved to Devon where they bought a large estate two and a half miles from Exeter and Streatham Hall was built. Today Streatham Hall is called Reed Hall and stands on the University's extensive Streatham campus
A Registered Botanic Garden, Streatham Campus is described by The Times as the ‘best-gardened campus in Britain’ and by The Independent as having a ‘sublime’ setting.here to edit.

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