Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd, a TV star from the1960s, died in August 2009 aged 74. Who was he better known as?
Simon Dee Simon Dee Cyril Nicholas Henty-Dodd (28 July 1935 – 29 August 2009), better known by his stage name Simon Dee, was a British television interviewer and radio disc jockey who hosted a twice-weekly BBC TV chat show, "Dee Time", in the late 1960s. After moving to London Weekend Television (LWT) in 1970, he was dropped and his career never recovered. He died of bone cancer in 2009. Dee was born on 28 July 1935, in Manchester, Lancashire, the only child of Cyril Edward Dodd (1906–1980) and Doris Gwendoline Pilling (née Simon) (1907–1952) who married in 1934 in Salford (a Radio
Edward Henty (cricketer) Edward Henty (cricketer) Edward Henty (11 August 1839 – 20 January 1900) was an English first-class cricketer who played for Kent County Cricket Club as a professional between 1865 and 1881. He was born in Hawkhurst in Kent and died at Lewisham in 1900 aged 60. Henty was a right-handed batsman and a wicket-keeper. He was a professional at the Prince's Cricket Ground in the 1870s and also ran billiard halls in what is now south-east London. His obituary in "Wisden Cricketers' Almanack" in 1901 quoted Arthur Haygarth's view that he was "above the average" as a batsman, though inclined