Thomas Eardley Bromley its secession from the United Arab Republic, then ambassador to Algeria from 1964 until Algeria, along with other members of the OAU, broke off diplomatic relations in December 1965 over Rhodesia. Bromley's last ambassadorship was to Ethiopia 1966–69. In 1968, while addressing a gathering of 2,000 university students in Addis Ababa, he was stoned by demonstrators against the Smith regime in Rhodesia. In 1944 Bromley married Diana Pratt, daughter of Sir John Pratt, also a diplomat, and niece of the actor Boris Karloff whose real name was William Henry Pratt. In 1958 she killed their two sons and attempted suicide;
William Abney (actor) William Abney (actor) William Edward Charles Wootton Abney (7 January 1921 – 9 August 1997) played Reverend Copley on "Coronation Street" in 1977, and Jim Lorimer in 1980. His other television credits include "The Adventures of William Tell", "Crossroads", "Special Branch", "Play for Today", "All Creatures Great and Small", "Robin's Nest" and "The Return of Sherlock Holmes". The son of Henry Charles Wootton Abney, of the landed gentry family of Abney of Measham Hall, Derbyshire, by his wife, Janet Bentley Littlejohn, Abney was educated at Cranleigh School and the Central School of Speech and Drama. As a film actor, Abney