Kenny Ball He has charted fourteen Top 50 hit singles in the UK alone. All such releases were issued on the Pye record label. In 2001 Ball was part of the recording of an album on the Decca label. It featured Don Lusher, Acker Bilk, John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, John Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton and George Melly, and was entitled "British Jazz Legends Together". Ball continued to tour until shortly before his death, his last scheduled concert being with Acker Bilk and Chris Barber at Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on 21 February 2013. He died at Basildon Hospital, Essex, where he was being
William Chilton (printer) transmutation of species. His writings on transformism preceded Chambers's "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" by a few years. Chilton took interest in the book but criticized Chambers for mixing science with religious speculation. William Chilton (printer) William Chilton (1815 – 28 May 1855), was a printer, Owenite Socialist, evolutionist, and co-founder with Charles Southwell of "The Oracle of Reason", which claimed to be the world's first avowedly atheist journal. Born in Bristol, the son of William and Mary Ann Chilton, Chilton's first occupation was that of bricklayer, before becoming a compositor and reader for the local "Bristol Mercury".