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A-Z Of Beards

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This can be anything at all to do with facial hair - people, film characters, cartoon characters - anything, as usual, goes

I'll start with

A Anchor Beard - name of a beard which, apparently, is shaped under a moustache to look like an anchor
 
B Blackbeard - Famous pirate. Real name Edward Teach. Mainly operated around the West Indies and died in 1718.
 
I once saw an absolutely brilliant film about Blackbeard but time has passed and I can't remember what it was called or who was in it.

C Calvin Candie - played by Leonardo DiCaprio in Django Unchained and had a beard
 
D Bob Delgado - Millers bearded defender and promotion-winning captain in the 1974/5 season. We signed him from Carlisle U. in December 1973. He made 70 appearances for the Millers and scored 5 goals.
 
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E - Edwards, Jimmy - comedy actor. He had a very large ‘handlebar moustache’ which he waxed.
 
F Keith Flett - socialist historian, author, campaigner and cricket fan. Frequently has letters published in national newspapers and in a wide variety of magazines (eg Private Eye, CAMRA What's Brewing, etc. - Think he may even have been a founder member of CAMRA) .Self-proclaimed "Organiser"of the Beard Liberation Front whose bulletins are regularly read out by Jonathan Agnew on BBC Radio's Test Match Special - often something complicated concerning beards and the laws of the game of cricket in relation to catches, run-outs, etc.!
I have met him several times. Underneath the humour, there is often a serious point being made. Good bloke... and I can veriify that he has had a beard for many years.
 
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J King John - signed the Magna Carta in 1215 , which conceded some long-standing royal privileges... then tried to get it annulled very shortly afterwards, when he thought he might be able to get away with it.
He was that type of guy!
He has a beard in typical paintings/engravings of him.

or... in modern times, Jonny Bairstow - Yorkshire and England wicketkeeper and batsman. Seen him play many times
 
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...or Kris Kristofferson, US country singer and songwriter. He always used to have a beard in his heydey . Not sure if he still has.
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L Laurence Llwelyn-Bowen - interior designer/style consultant. Noticed him sitting at the next table to me in in a canteen once, which was a bit unexpected. He was wearing a cravat. Think there must have been a design exhibition or awards event somewhere in the building that I just happened to be in. Often seen with a beard, but beards go in and out of fashion, so don't expect him to have a beard all of the time .
 
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or... Craig Morgan - bearded Millers defender and captain , double promotion winner. After a rather injury-interrupted start, he turned out to be one of Steve Evans' best signings.
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N Neil Ruddock. Didn't have a beard in his early footballing career , so the nickname "Razor" seemed more appropriate back then. Usually had a beard in his later playing career, and then continued to do so when he retired from playing, until late 2020, when he shaved it off after a 15 years unbroken spell . He may have regrown it by now.
 
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P Mike "Porky" Parry - idiotic presenter/football pundit on TalkSport Radio. Often falls into the "so bad, he's good" catagory . Routinely gets things wrong about football, pop music lyrics, geography, history, just about anything... he has even been known to get his own name wrong! Unintentionally hilarious and completely oblivious to it all... and he's got a beard.
 
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Q Micky Quinn ex-player of Newcastle United, Coventry City, etc, and now a racehorse trainer. He appropriately had a "Harry Enfield's Three Scousers" type 'tache in his playing days. He may have shaved it off more recently.
 
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