John Ebdon
British author and director of the London Planetarium
About John Ebdon
Lived 1923 – 2005 (aged 81–82).
John Ebdon (22 December 1923 – 19 March 2005 ) was a British author, broadcaster, Graecophile and, for 21 years, director of the London Planetarium. "His facetious patrician tones every third Monday morning, his sense of the absurd, his ear for a word mistakenly taken out of context, his famous cat Perseus, delighted much of middle England as much as it infuriated a small minority."--Glyn Worsnip.
Books Teach Your Child About the Stars (1963) Ebdon's Odyssey (1979) Ebdon's Iliad (1983)
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Who was John Ebdon?
British author and director of the London Planetarium
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John Ebdon was born in 1923.
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John Ebdon died on 19 March 2005.
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