BORN ON THIS DAY

BRIAN EPSTEIN (19341967). The Liverpool-born manager of The Beatles (right) was key to their success, but also made commercial mistakes, including signing away their merchandising rights for just a ten per cent cut of profits. Sir Paul McCartney said: ‘If anyone was the “Fifth Beatle”, it was Brian.’ GEORGE CADBURY (1839-1922). A Quaker and pacifist, the chocolate manufacturer established Bournville near Birmingham as a model community with affordable homes and gardens for his workers, saying: ‘No man ought to live in a place where a rose cannot grow.’ The Cadbury Brothers made their first milk chocolate in 1897.