Good to be first! Another great video tribute Rufus. I am thoroughly enjoying your channel! Keep em' coming! With great respect from Peterborough, Ontario, Canada...!
Thank you for this very interesting, in-depth summary of the Cecil and Jill Day-Lewis family, but I would like to go a bit further back in the timeline, something you also mentioned, that being Micheal Balcon. Although in a different time period, I attended the same school as he did, that being the George Dixon Grammar School in Edgbaston, so an ex-Dixonian, I feel I must address him correctly as SIR Micheal Balcon. He attended the school between 1908-13. (I attended 1974-79). There is a commemorative plaque to Sir Micheal on one of the schools' walls, just as there is a similar one at the Ealing Studios. Furthermore, near the studios, there is a Wetherspoons pub, called The Sir Micheal Balcon in his honour. It would be interesting to know how many of the regulars there know the story behind the pubs' name. Again skipping a generation, this time forward, to Daniel Day-Lewis, as similar to his grandfather, he has also been honoured, being Knighted by the Duke of Cambridge in 2014, so he too would now be addressed as SIR Daniel Day-Lewis. Born in London, he now lives in County Wicklow, Ireland, having retired from the film industry. Ironically, I am going to visit the old school in two days' time as an ex-pupil, so even though the Sir Micheal Balcon link is known at the school, I will have to ask how many people there know of his famous grandson.
The churchyard pf St John the Evangalist in West Meon Hampshire has two interesting graves. Guy Burgess the cold war spy died in Moscow but his ashes were buried in the family plot in West Meon . Thomas Lord the founder of Lord's cricket ground is also buried there and the village pub is named after him
