Roger Hargreaves writing and drawing the Mr. Men and Little Miss characters with new stories (while signing the covers in his father's signature). However, in April 2004 Hargreaves's widow Christine sold the rights to the Mr. Men characters to the UK entertainment group Chorion, for £28 million. Hargreaves and his wife had four children: Adam, Giles and twins Sophie and Amelia. The first of the Mr. Men characters is reported to have been created when Adam, at age 6, asked his father what a tickle looked like. Hargreaves drew a figure with a round orange body and long rubbery arms, which became
William Hargreaves (cricketer) Kent in April 1948 aged 75. William Hargreaves (cricketer) William Henry Hargreaves (6 September 1872 – 19 April 1948) was an cricketer who played one first-class cricket match for Kent County Cricket Club in 1893. He was born at Great Wymondley near Baldock in Hertfordshire in 1872. Hargreaves made his only first-class appearance in June 1893 for Kent against Middlesex in the 1893 County Championship at Gravesend. Hargreaves is also known to have played twice for Kent's Second XI during the 1893 season and to have played for Chatham Cricket Club against the touring South Africans at New Brompton in