What is recorded here
Downpatrick in County Down, Ireland, gave birth to Miles Kington on 13 May 1941 while his father served as a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. That military posting placed a future journalist and jazz musician inside a small Northern Irish town rather than a grand capital, suggesting the boy may have watched trains, listened to foreign languages, or imagined distant railways before he ever boarded one.
Why this person is known: British journalist and musician (1941-2008)
- Birthplace
- Downpatrick
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