Stouts Hill the family, including Colonel Browne. Stouts Hill was the birthplace reputedly of the Gloucestershire historian, Samuel Rudder, and of the distinguished Persian scholar Edward Granville Browne. From 1935 until 1979 it was let for use as a private boys' preparatory school in which some 100 pupils were boarders. Notable former pupils of the school include Stephen Fry, who makes a detailed reference to the school in his autobiography, "Moab Is My Washpot", and Captain Mark Phillips, former husband of Anne, the Princess Royal. http://www.stoutshill.co.uk/<br> http://stoutshillschool.blogspot.com/ Stouts Hill Stouts Hill is an 18th-Century Gothic revival country house situated in the Cotswolds,
Simon O'Brien (presenter) planners". O'Brien was back on TV on BBC One from 5 September 2011, hosting the second series of "To Build or Not to Build". In 2014 O'Brien began presenting the TV reality series "My Dream Derelict Home". More recently O'Brien co-presents Channel 4 TV series 'Find it, Fix It, Flog it' alongside Henry Cole. Simon O'Brien (presenter) Simon O'Brien (19 June 1965, Garston, Liverpool, Lancashire) is a British television actor and radio presenter as well as a property developer. He came to prominence as the character Damon Grant in "Brookside", a role he played from the soap's launch in 1982