Notting Hill (film) a British Comedy Award and a Brit Award for the soundtrack. William "Will" Thacker owns an independent book store in Notting Hill. He shares his house with an eccentric, carefree Welshman named Spike and has a small, tight knit group of friends that includes Bella, Max, Bernie, and Tony, and his sister Honey. Will encounters Hollywood actress Anna Scott when she enters his shop. Later, he bumps into her on the street and spills his drink on her. She returns to his nearby house to change her clothes and impulsively kisses him. Will calls Anna and she invites him to
Jeremy Thacker Jeremy Thacker Jeremy Thacker was an 18th-century writer and watchmaker (although see the important qualification under 'Hoax?' below), who for a long time was believed to be the first to have coined the word "chronometer" for precise clocks designed to find longitude at sea, though an earlier reference by William Derham has now been found. Thacker is credited with writing "The Longitudes Examin'd", published in London in 1714, in which the term 'chronometer' appears. In the work, the claim is made that Thacker created and extensively tested a marine chronometer positioned on gimbals and within a vacuum, and that sea