Members of Leander Club

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 20. Chapters: Charles Lloyd (rower), Chris Baillieu, David Chipp, David Jennens, Ed Coode, Elisabeta Lip, Guy Pooley, Hugh Laurie, James Cracknell, James Crowden, Joanna Toch, John Goldie, Matthew Pinsent, Patrick Delafield, Paul Bircher, Ran Laurie, Ronald Sanderson, Steve Redgrave, Tim Foster. Excerpt: James Hugh Calum Laurie, OBE (born 11 June 1959), known as Hugh Laurie ( ), is an English actor, voice artist, comedian, writer, musician, recording artist and director. He first became known as one half of the Fry and Laurie double act, along with his friend and comedy partner Stephen Fry, whom he joined in the cast of Blackadder and Jeeves and Wooster from 1987 to 1999. From 2004 to 2012, he played Dr Gregory House, the protagonist of House, for which he received two Golden Globe awards, two Screen Actors Guild awards, and six Emmy nominations. He has been listed in the 2011 Guinness Book of World Records as the highest paid actor ever in a TV Drama, earning 250,000 per episode in House, and for being the most watched leading man on television. Laurie was born in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England. The youngest of four children, Laurie has an older brother named Charles Alexander Lyon Mundell Laurie and two older sisters named Susan and Janet. He had a strained relationship with his mother, Patricia (nee Laidlaw). He notes that his mother, "was Presbyterian by character, by mood" and that he was "a frustration to her... she didn't like me." His father, William George Ranald Mundell Laurie, was a doctor who also won an Olympic gold medal in the coxless pairs (rowing) at the 1948 London Games. Laurie's parents, who were of Scottish descent, attended a Scottish Presbyterian church in Oxford. He notes that "belief in God didn't play a large role in my home, but a certain attitude to life and the living of it did." He followed this...