Bryanston Square London W1
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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In 1997 I lived for about six months in a flat belonging to my employer in 24 Bryanston Square, London W1, an upmarket address in the Marylebone area.
A few years later, out of curiosity, I did an internet search on my full name: moderately common first name G, common middle name with two spellings P, moderately common English surname with three possible spellings L.
I learned that three doors down in Bryanston Square, in the mid-nineteenth century, had been the London home of a man employed in Queen Victoria's personal household with exactly the same full name as myself, including the spelling. The only difference was that he had been a baronet, therefore Sir G P L to my mere G P L. Furthermore, he had died exactly 100 years (plus two months) before my birth.
Date submitted:Mon, 13 May 2013 23:57:19 +0000Coincidence ID:6906
