Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Alistair MacFarlane, Angus Maddison, Colin Humphreys, David F. Ford, David Nicholls (musicologist), Donald Welbourn, George Chase (bishop), Hugh B. Cott, Hugh Laurie, Jeremy Sanders, John Morrill (historian), John Sentamu, Jonathan Culler, Leonard Hodgson, Owen Chadwick, Patrick Baert, Percy M. Young, Peter Berger (Royal Navy officer), Robert Hardy (bishop), Sal Brinton, Sarah MacDonald (musician), Sir David Harrison, Spencer Carpenter, Vivian Nutton. Excerpt: James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), known as Hugh Laurie ( ), is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist and director. He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 to 1999. From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and six Emmy nominations. He has been listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor ever in a TV Drama, earning 250,000 per episode in House, and for being the most watched leading man on television. Laurie was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The youngest of four children, Laurie has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, Patricia (nee Laidlaw). He notes that his mother, "was Presbyterian by character, by mood" and that he was "a frustration to her... she didn't like me." His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, was a doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games. Laurie's parents, who were of Scottish descent, attended a Scottish...