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Who is the most Wikipedia'd person from Congleton?

By Jack Lenton 29th Dec 2020

An interactive map has been released which shows the most 'Wikipedia'd' person in every town of the UK.

Created by The Pudding, the People Map of the UK shows the person who's Wikipedia page has the most views in each of the country's towns and cities.

And the map shows that the most 'Wikipedia'd' person from Congleton is the comedian Stanley Unwin.

Born in 1911 in Pretoria, South Africa, Unwin's mother arranged for the family to return to England following his father's death in 1914.

By 1919, Unwin had been sent to the National Children's Home in Congleton.

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After studying radio, television and languages at Regent Street Polytechnic in London, he became a successful comedian, actor and comic writer.

He invented his own comic language, "Unwinese", referred to in the film Carry On Regardless (1961) as "gobbledygook". Unwinese was a corrupted form of English in which many of the words were altered in playful and humorous ways, as in its description of Elvis Presley and his contemporaries as being "wasp-waist and swivel-hippy".

Unwin claimed that the inspiration came from his mother, who once told him that on the way home she had "falolloped (fallen) over" and "grazed her kneeclabbers".

Unwin died at Danetre Hospital in Daventry on 12 January 2002. He is buried in the churchyard at Long Buckby, with his wife, Frances.

     

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