Melchett

The 52-year-old actor -- well known as Melchett in the "Blackadder" TV comedy series with Rowan Atkinson and the gentleman's gentleman of "Jeeves and Wooster" -- said he knew some people would be relieved to hear he had stopped tweeting and others would despair of his absence.

Reuters: Top News 2010

All Gordo seems to have done is filled the empty spots along the trench where Blears, Smith, Purnell and Hutton had stood until they decided, not unreasonably, that charging the machine guns was preferable to another year under the command of the gibbering madman in the command bunker, "Melchett" Brown. rightly notes, Purnell glanced behind him as he went over the top, only to find his cabinet colleagues studiously avoiding his eyes as they wiped each others 'blood off their bayonets.

Mr Eugenides 2009

Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association and Britain's most famous crop trasher, who famously pulled up six-and-a-half acres of GM maize in 1999, says that £20m of taxpayers 'money has gone into GM crop research since 1997, despite the fact that not a single crop is grown in the UK.

Just because GM is gaining popularity doesn't make it right Lucy Siegle 2010

JH: A fight between Melchett and Blackadder for the same woman ... why was that episode never filmed?

Johann Hari: Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview 2010

JH: A fight between Melchett and Blackadder for the same woman ... why was that episode never filmed?

Johann Hari: Stephen Fry, British Polymath: A Twinterview 2010

General Melchett: Well, of course they are, Blackadder, directed according to the Grand Plan.

Blackadder Goes Forth Victoria Janssen 2009

General Melchett: Well, of course they are, Blackadder, directed according to the Grand Plan.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Melchett: Field Marshal Haig has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.

Archive 2009-12-01 Victoria Janssen 2009

Lady Eva Violet Mond Isaacs, née Melchett, Marchioness of Reading, was born into one remarkable family and married into another.

Mond Isaacs, Eva Violet, Second Marchioness of Reading. 2009

Melchett: Field Marshal Haig has formulated a brilliant new tactical plan to ensure final victory in the field.

Blackadder Goes Forth Victoria Janssen 2009