Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
William Porden
William Porden( c. 1755 – 1822) was a versatile English architect who worked for the 1st Earl Grosvenor and the Prince Regent.
William Porden
William Porden( c. 1755 – 1822) was a versatile English architect who worked for the 1st Earl Grosvenor and the Prince Regent.
Luther Grosvenor
Luther James Grosvenor( born 23 December 1946 in Evesham, Worcestershire) is an English rock musician, who played guitar in Spooky Tooth, briefly in Stealers
Wheel and, under the pseudonym Ariel Bender, in Mott the Hoople and Widowmaker.
Grosvenor first began playing in local bands in his hometown of Evesham.
He met Jim Capaldi, who later played with Traffic, with whom he formed a group called Deep Feelin.
Later he joined a group called The V.I.P.'s, in which Keith Emerson played for some time.
The V.I.P.'s were renamed Art and later became Spooky Tooth.
After leaving Spooky Tooth, he released a solo album," Under Open Skies"( Island Records, 1971).
For contractual reasons, he changed his name to Ariel Bender at the suggestion of singer- songwriter Lynsey de Paul for his stint with the Mott the Hoople.
According to Mott's lead singer Ian Hunter, interviewed in the documentary" The Ballad of Mott the Hoople", the band were in Germany with Lynsey de Paul for the TV show, Hits- a- Go- Go in Germany on 24 June 1973 when lead guitarist Mick Ralphs walked down a street bending a succession of car aerials in frustration.
De Paul came out with the phrase" aerial bender" which Hunter later suggested to Grosvenor as a stage name.
Grosvenor joined the band in 1973, replacing Ralphs.
Grosvenor toured with Mott in 1973 and 1974 and performed on the band's seventh album," The Hoople"( 1974).
The years with Spooky Tooth( 1967 to 1970), Stealers Wheel( 1973) and Mott the Hoople( 1973 to 1974) were the most successful years in Grosvenor's musical career.
After leaving Mott in 1974- he was replaced by Mick Ronson- Grosvenor published a few solo albums, and formed Widowmaker, releasing" Widowmaker" in 1976 and" Too Late to Cry" in 1977.
In 1995 Luther recorded two tracks for Viceroy Music's tribute to Peter Green along w/ former Spooky Tooth drummer Mike Kellie.
These songs led to Luther signing a deal w/ NYC based Brilliant Recording Company& produced the" Floodgates" album.
It was released on August 15th 1996.
The album again featured Mike Kellie on drums& featured Jess Roden singing vocals on two tracks, Luther did the vocals on the rest of the album.
The album was produced by Luther& Mick Dolan who produced albums for Steve Winwood.
In 1999 Grosvenor returned in a Spooky Tooth reunion( sans Gary Wright)," Cross Purpose" again for the Brilliant Recording Company.
In actuality it was more of a VIP's release other than Spooky Tooth.
In 2005, he revived his pseudonym, forming the Ariel Bender Band.
In 2007 and 2008 he performed under the name Ariel Bender's Mott The Hoople performing both Spooky Tooth and Mott The Hoople songs, as well as cover songs.
In 2009, he worked with London act, The Winter Olympics, recording guitar parts for their song," The Great Outdoors", which was released in August 2010.
In June 2018, performing as Ariel Bender, Grosvenor played three Mott The Hoople reunion shows with Hunter and 1974 Mott pianist Morgan Fisher, backed by Hunter's Rant Band.
The shows were at festivals in Spain and the United Kingdom and a concert in Norway.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Micah Ballard
Micah Ballard is a poet born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana on September 23, 1975.
Since 1999 he has lived in San Francisco with his wife, poet Sunnylyn Thibodeaux.
Under the imprints Auguste Press and Lew Gallery Editions they have printed over 30 books by various poets and artists.
Ballard attended the Poetics Program at New College of California in San Francisco ’s mission district where he worked with David Meltzer, Joanne Kyger, and Tom Clark.
From 2000- 07 he directed the Humanities Program there.
In 2007 Ballard started the short- lived Lew Gallery with Portland artist Jeff Butler and curated such notable shows as" Artworks" by David Meltzer and" Some of the Worlds Diamonds: Pieces from Living Rooms," a collaboration with painters and poets from San Francisco to New York City.
Ballard has given poetry readings at a variety of venues, including the San Francisco State Poetry Center, City Lights Bookstore, SOMArts, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church.
His poems have appeared in 6x6, Blue Book, Boog City, Damn the Caesars, Drunken Boat, Joe Brainard's Magazine, Le Palais de Nuit, LIT, Mirage# 4 Period( ical), The Recluse, Try!, Vanitas, and the anthologies Bay Poetics and Evidence of the Paranormal, among others.
Currently, he is on the editorial board for the Contemporary Poetry Series at University of New Orleans Press.
Ballard co-directs the Masters of Fine Arts in Writing Program at the University of San Francisco.
Ballard's second full- length collection of poetry," Waifs and Strays", was nominated for a" California Book Award.
Margaret Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge
Margaret Evelyn Cambridge, Marchioness of Cambridge( 8 April 1873 – 27 March 1929) was the sixth child and third daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster and the wife of the 1st Marquess of Cambridge.
She was known before her marriage as The Lady Margaret Grosvenor, and after it she was also known as Princess Adolphus of Teck and later The Duchess of Teck.
Simon Radley
Simon Radley( born 1965) is a British chef.
He is executive chef of the restaurant Simon Radley at the Chester Grosvenor, formerly known as The Arkle.
Part of the Chester Grosvenor and Spa hotel in the United Kingdom, the restaurant has retained its Michelin star for 30 consecutive years.
David Meltzer
David Meltzer (February 17, 1937 – December 31, 2016) was an American poet and musician of the Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti described him as "one of the greats of post-World-War-Two San Francisco poets and musicians".
Meltzer came to prominence with inclusion of his work in the anthology, "The New American Poetry 1945–1960".
J. P. Pickens
Jean Paul" J.P." Pickens( May 6, 1937 – July 6, 1973), was a leading force in the early North Beach, San Francisco, music scene, circa 1963, along with David Meltzer and James Gurley, defining the psychedelic rock genre.
J.P. played regularly at the Coffee Gallery on Grant Street in the early sixties, performing with Meltzer, Gurley and Peter Albin( who later formed Big Brother and the Holding Company) and many others.

Question: Are Luther Grosvenor and David Meltzer both from the same country?
Answer: no