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The Reverend John Galbraith Graham MBE (16 February 1921 – 26 November 2013) was a British crossword compiler, best known as Araucaria of The Guardian. He was also, like his father, a Church of England priest.
Graham was born in Oxford, where his father, Eric Graham, held the post of dean of Oriel College. The family moved to a country rectory in Wiltshire. After attending St Edward's School, Oxford, he obtained a place to read classics at King's College, Cambridge, leaving to join the RAF when the Second World War began. After the war he returned to King's to read theology. In 1949 he joined the staff of St Chad's College, Durham as Chaplain and Tutor where he worked until 1952. On Graham's departure the Principal, Theo Wetherall, paying tribute to his good nature, wrote that "he squandered his sensitive taste and knowledge of Classics on 1B Greek with unfailing patience enlivened by rare expressions of nausea". He later became a vicar in Huntingdonshire.
Writing his first puzzle for The Guardian in July 1958, he eventually took to compiling crosswords full-time when his divorce in the late 1970s lost him his living as a clergyman (he was reinstated after the death of his first wife). In December 1970, The Guardian began publishing its crosswords under the pseudonyms of their compilers, at which point Graham selected the name "Araucaria".
Actors: Shirley Jones (actress), Cloris Leachman (actress), Aaron Lustig (actor), Phyllis Diller (actress), Dan Cortese (actor), Anne Clements (producer), Lauralee Bell (writer), Lauralee Bell (director), Maxim Knight (actor), Lauralee Bell (actress), Lauralee Bell (producer), Lauralee Bell (producer), Lauralee Bell (writer), Natasha Giraldo (miscellaneous crew), David Maurice Gil (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Mattson Tomlin (writer), Mattson Tomlin (director), Mattson Tomlin (editor), Mattson Tomlin (composer), Laura Webber (actress), Jody Bird (actress), Tom Webber (actor), Dana Cooley (actor), Randy Horne (actor), Tim Richards (actor), Dan St. Louis (actor), Lyz Coolidge (composer), Matthew Arnold (actor), Matthew Melle (actor), John Colby (actor),
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Genres: Comedy,Actors: Wilfred Lucas (director), Frank Brownlee (actor), Clarence Burton (actor), Joseph Belmont (actor), May Allison (actress), Claire McDowell (actress), George D. Baker (writer), Hale Hamilton (writer), Darrell Foss (actor),
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