Don Lusher label featuring Kenny Ball, Acker Bilk, John Chilton and the Feetwarmers, John Dankworth, Humphrey Lyttelton, and George Melly. It was entitled "British Jazz Legends Together". In 1993 he was awarded the status of Freeman of the City of London, and in 2002 Lusher received an OBE for services to the music industry. Don Lusher Don Lusher OBE (6 November 1923 – 5 July 2006) was an English jazz and big band trombonist best known for his association with the Ted Heath Big Band. In a career spanning more than 60 years, he played trombone with a number of jazz orchestras
William Chilton (printer) twelve years the articles on Evolution by Herbert Spencer in the "Leader", when "regular gradation" began to receive the name of evolution. Chilton was an early advocate of evolution. His writings on "The Theory of Regular Gradation" that were published in "The Oracle of Reason", popularised evolution many years before Charles Darwin. Chilton was a materialist who viewed matter as eternal and inherently possessing all properties to produce life. He rejected any distinction between living and non-living matter and considered all matter to be alive. Chilton was influenced by the evolutionary ideas of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. He embraced Lamarckism and the