February 8

Robert Burton

Robert Burton (8 February 1577 – 25 January 1640) was an English scholar at Oxford University, best known for the classic The Anatomy of Melancholy. He was also the incumbent of St Thomas the Martyr, Oxford, and of Seagrave in Leicestershire.

Burton's Melancholy focuses sharply on the self; unlike Bacon, Burton assumes that knowledge of psychology, not natural science, is humankind's greatest need. His enormous treatise is considered "delightful" by critics; it examines in encyclopaedic detail the ubiquitous Jacobean malady, melancholy, supposedly caused by an excess of "black bile," according to the humor theory fashionable at the time.

He wrote The Anatomy of Melancholy largely to write himself out of being a lifelong sufferer from depression. As he described his condition in the preface "Democritus Junior to the Reader,"for I had gravidum cor, foetum caput [a heavy heart, hatchling in my head], a kind of imposthume in my head, which I was very desirous to be unladen of.

Cliff Allison

Henry Clifford Allison (8 February 1932, Brough, Westmorland – 7 April 2005,[1] Brough, (now) Cumbria) was a racing driver who participated in Formula One during seasons 1958 to 1961 for the Lotus, Scuderia Centro Sud, Ferrari and UDT Laystall teams.

Cliff Allison started his racing career in a Formula Three Cooper 500 in 1953 before being spotted by Colin Chapman. Allison won the performance prize driving a 744cc Lotus in the 1957 24 Hours of Le Mans.[2] The Lotus of Allison and Colin Chapman finished sixth in the 1958 12 Hours of Sebring endurance race for sports cars.[3] Allison came in fourth with his Lotus in the 1958 Grand Prix of Europe at Spa-Francorchamps, more than four minutes behind victor Tony Brooks.

Allison owned and managed Allison's Garage in Brough. The business had been started by his father and he returned to it after his racing career ended. Allisons also provided the village and school bus services, which Cliff Allison would drive.

Roger Lloyd-Pack

Lloyd-Pack attended Bedales School in Hampshire, where he achieved three A Level passes in English, French and Latin[1] and entry to RADA where he worked with actors Kenneth  Cranham and Richard Wilson.

On British television he is best known for portraying Colin "Trigger" Ball in the BBC sitcom Only Fools and Horses,and for his role in The Vicar of Dibley as Owen Newitt. To international audiences his greatest fame is as Barty Crouch, Sr. in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

In 2005 he appeared in Series 2 of the ITV 1 series Doc Martin as a farmer who held a grudge against Doctor Ellingham for what he believed was the malpractice-related death of his wife. In 2006 he played John Lumic, and provided the voice of the Cyber-Controller, in the Doctor Who episodes "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel".