Are there any famous people who were brought up in a Barnardos home? Or any that were helped by them?

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Are there any famous people who were brought up in a Barnardos home? Or any that were helped by them?

2007-02-21 05:15:41 · 2 answers · asked by srushall87 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture

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The author, Leslie Thomas who wrote The Virgin Soldiers (made into a film).

2007-02-21 05:36:07 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋

Here are two others...

1. Bruce Oldfield, designer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Oldfield

2. Anthony Pidgley, British businessman
[Pidgley is the co-founder and head of the Berkeley Group, one of Britain's largest up-market house builders, position 796 in the Sunday Times Rich List 2005]
http://www.dil.aber.ac.uk/dils/Research/RFocus9/html_l_z.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_Times_Rich_List_2005

2007-02-23 08:27:27 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ Rum Rhythms ♫ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋