Howard Goodall (26/05/1958), an English composer. He was born in Bromley, Kent (a distinction he shares with H.G.Wells, Charles Darwin and David Bowie!) in May 1958, grew up in Rutland (Uppingham) & Oxfordshire (Thame), became a chorister at New College Oxford aged 8 and returned to Oxford to study music at Christ Church as an undergraduate. In between the two he attended Stowe School, where he played the organ a lot, and Lord Williams' School Thame, where he composed, sang, and played in bands a lot. He left Oxford University in 1979 with a First (in music), during his time there meeting Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, with whom he then worked on Rowan's live stage shows & revues, Not the Nine o' Clock News, Blackadder and many other subsequent projects. He is godfather to one each of their children.