page_title: Arthur English
section_title: Personal life
hierarchical_section_title: Arthur English / Personal life
caption_attribution_description: English: Blue plaque at 22 Lysons Road in Aldershot in Hampshire where Arthur English (1919-1995) was born This image represents an Open Plaques entry&#160;#43514.
context_page_description: Arthur Leslie Norman English was an English television, film and stage actor and comedian from the music hall tradition.
context_section_description: Following the death of his wife Ivy (1919–75) English began to drink heavily. In 1977 English married a young dancer, Teresa Mann (born 1955), whom he met while they were performing in a pantomime together at Wimbledon, and in 1981 the couple had a daughter – Clare-Louise English, the partially deaf actress who runs the Hot Coals Theatre which specialises in plays for the deaf. The performers John Inman and Jack Douglas were the child's godparents. The couple separated in 1986 and the marriage was dissolved in 1987. The last four years of his life were spent in Devereux House, a care home in Farnborough.
  Arthur English died in 1995 at Frimley Park Hospital in Surrey as a result of complications from emphysema. After a funeral service at St Michael's church at which fellow Water Rat Jimmy Perry read the oration his body was cremated at the Park Crematorium in Aldershot where his ashes were later interred in a plot with those of his first wife.
caption: The blue plaque on the house in Lysons Road in Aldershot where English was born
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