Four Shropshire folk join Who's Who 2013 list alongside Olympic heroes
Four people from Shropshire will join Olympic champions Mo Farah, Jessica Ennis and Andy Murray in the new 2013 edition of Who's Who, it was revealed today.
Dr David Llewellyn, the 51-year-old principal of Harper Adams University College in Edgmond, and artist Stephen Cox, 68, of Coreley, near Ludlow, will appear in the new edition of the book, published every year since 1849.
Also included in the list of 1,000 new names in the book is Nicola Thorp, 45, a Shrewsbury-born consultant clinical oncologist and associate medical director at the Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust in the Wirral.
Professor Mark Woolhouse, 53, a Shrewsbury-born professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the University of Edinburgh is also featured.
Inclusion in the world-famous reference book - which contains potted biographies of 33,000 of some of the most distinguished and most talented people – is by invitation only.
Everyone in Who's Who is invited to compile his or her own entry, so entries can be as long or as short as celebrities wish.
The late Dame Barbara Cartland had 222 lines to list her achievements.
The entries of the Shropshire quartet are comparatively brief and modest.
Mr Cox needs 37 lines to tell his life story, Ms Thorp's entry contains only nine lines, Mr Llewellyn takes up 10 lines and Professor Woolhouse requires 14, the same number as the entry of US President Barack Obama and five fewer than the entry of Pope Benedict XVI.
The Shropshire group will now remain in Who's Who until they die, when they will be automatically transferred to Who's Who's sister publication,Who Was Who.
The 2013 edition is published by A&C Black at £235.
