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- Sir Hans Sloane, 1st Baronet, FRS (16 April 1660 – 11 January 1753), was an Anglo-Irish physician, naturalist, and collector. He had a collection of 71,000 items which he bequeathed to the British nation, thus providing the foundation of the British Museum, the British Library, and the Natural History Museum, London.
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Mr. Sloane is a British comedy television series that was first broadcast on Sky Atlantic on 23 May 2014. [1] The six-part series was written by Robert B. Weide, Aschlin Ditta and Oliver Lansley and directed by Robert B. Weide. It is set in Watford in 1969.
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Entertaining Mr Sloane is a three-act play written in 1963 by the English playwright Joe Orton. [1] It was first produced in London at the New Arts Theatre on 6 May 1964 and transferred to the West End's Wyndham's Theatre on 29 June 1964.
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Entertaining Mr Sloane is a 1970 British black comedy film directed by Douglas Hickox. The screenplay by Clive Exton is based on the 1964 play of the same title by Joe Orton. This was the second adaptation of the play, the first having been developed for British television and broadcast by ITV on 15 July 1968. [3]
In 1969 in Watford, Hertfordshire, Jeremy Sloane, a depressed accountant, has lost his job and his wife, Janet. Sloane gets a part-time job, and at a hardware shop he meets a young, free-spirited American manic pixie dream girl named Robin who may just help him get his life back on track.
Physician to royalty, founder of the British Museum and the man who brought drinking chocolate to Europe. From modest beginnings in the village of Killyleagh, Hans Sloane went on to lead a long and rich life, blazing a trail for 17th and 18th century healthcare, science and naturalism.
His three full-length plays, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1964), Loot (1965), and What the Butler Saw (produced posthumously, 1969), were outrageous and unconventional black comedies that scandalized audiences with their examination of moral corruption, violence, and sexual rapacity.
Mr. Sloane: Created by Robert B. Weide. With Nick Frost, Olivia Colman, Peter Serafinowicz, Ophelia Lovibond. It's December 1969 in Watford, England, and Jeremy Sloane is at the end of his rope - literally.
