William Mervyn William Mervyn William Mervyn Pickwoad (3 January 1912 – 6 August 1976) was an English actor best known for his portrayal of the bishop in the clerical comedy "All Gas and Gaiters", the old gentleman in "The Railway Children" and Inspector Charles Rose in "The Odd Man" and its sequels. Mervyn was born in Nairobi, British East Africa, but educated in Britain at Forest School, Snaresbrook, before embarking on a stage career, spending five years in provincial theatre. He made his West End debut in "The Guinea Pig" at the Criterion Theatre in 1946, before parts in plays such as
Mervyn Huston Mervyn Huston Mervyn J. Huston (1912 - March 7, 2001) was a Canadian pharmacologist and humorist. A longtime professor and academic dean at the University of Alberta's school of pharmacy, he was best known for his humor novel "Gophers Don't Pay Taxes", which won the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in 1982. Originally from Ashcroft, British Columbia, Huston worked in his father's pharmacy as a teenager before studying pharmacology at the University of Alberta and the University of Washington. He became director of the pharmacy program at the University of Alberta's Faculty of Medicine in 1946, and dean of