[About Mr. Chicken, the last private resident of 10 Downing Street]
Sadly, nothing else is known of Mr. Chicken.
He was a philatelist, and he worked in a bank. And he used to sail. So there's three facts, so I should get some points for those. Little-known facts, but true.
RMRory McGrath
I think he also played the tenor banjo.
He had eleven knuckles!
And, in fact, was actually a chicken.
[exasperated] So, the most biographed man in the 18th century...
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