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Cyril Stein, Alberto Granado, Rachel Cameron and Anthony Brooke

Matthew Bannister on Ladbrokes' chairman Cyril Stein, Che Guevara's motorcycling companion Alberto Granado, ballet teacher Rachel Cameron and white Rajah of Sarawak Anthony Brooke.

Matthew Bannister remembers:

Cyril Stein, who built up Ladbrokes from one betting shop to a multi-billion pound business.

Alberto Granado who travelled with Che Guevara on his famous motorcycle journey across South America.

Rachel Cameron - doyen of ballet teachers - who passed on the ideas of Diaghilev.

Necmettin Erbakan, Turkey's first Islamist prime minister.

And the last white Rajah of Sarawak - Anthony Brooke.

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Sun 13 Mar 2011 20:30
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