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Who once won a museum in a raffle?
Who once won a museum in a raffle?
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Tnot often as museum has been a raffle prize 
British of course
British of course
No. This is a proper museum.
The question is... WHO won a museum in a raffle.
The gentleman has another shaky claim to fame
It's in London not Cambridge
The gentleman has another shaky claim to fame
It's in London not Cambridge
Correct on the man. Dr James Parkinson.
Today, however, we remember him for his landmark study of the affliction then called the shaking palsy, but known ever since as Parkinson's disease. (Parkinson had one other slight claim to fame. In 1785, he became possibly the only person in history to win a natural history museum in a raffle. The museum, in London's Leicester Square, had been founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who had driven himself bankrupt with his unrestrained collecting of natural wonders. Parkinson kept the museum until 1805, when he could no longer support it and the collection was broken up and sold.)
Your question Parkermax.
Today, however, we remember him for his landmark study of the affliction then called the shaking palsy, but known ever since as Parkinson's disease. (Parkinson had one other slight claim to fame. In 1785, he became possibly the only person in history to win a natural history museum in a raffle. The museum, in London's Leicester Square, had been founded by Sir Ashton Lever, who had driven himself bankrupt with his unrestrained collecting of natural wonders. Parkinson kept the museum until 1805, when he could no longer support it and the collection was broken up and sold.)
Your question Parkermax.
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as Peter Sellers said in the Pink Panther " pass the fone". Who was his wife in real time? Quite a looker !!
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