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}} Terence Alan "Spike" Milligan KBE (16 April 1918 – 27 February 2002) was a British comedian, writer and actor. The son of an Irish father and an English mother, his early life was spent in India where he was born. The majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He disliked his first name and began to call himself "Spike" after hearing a band on Radio Luxembourg called Spike Jones and his City Slickers.〔 Milligan was the co-creator, main writer and a principal cast member of ''The Goon Show'', performing a range of roles including the popular Eccles and Minnie Bannister characters. Milligan wrote and edited many books, including ''Puckoon'' and his seven-volume autobiographical account of his time serving during the Second World War, beginning with ''Adolf Hitler: My Part in His Downfall''. He is also noted as a popular writer of comical verse; much of his poetry was written for children, including ''Silly Verse for Kids'' (1959). After success with the groundbreaking British radio programme, ''The Goon Show'', Milligan translated this success to television with ''Q5'', a surreal sketch show which is credited as a major influence on the members of ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''. He was the oldest, longest lived and last surviving member of the Goons. Milligan's 1960 application for British citizenship and 1961 application for a British passport were blocked by his refusal to pledge an oath of allegiance to the United Kingdom, his adopted home for most of his adult life. When the Commonwealth Immigrants Act removed Indian-born Milligan's automatic right to British citizenship in 1962, he promptly became an Irish citizen, exercising a right conferred through the automatic retroactive Irish citizenship of his Irish-born father (ironically a British citizen). ==Early life== Milligan was born in Ahmednagar, India, on 16 April 1918, the son of an Irish father, Captain Leo Alphonso Milligan, MSM, RA (1890–1969), who was serving in the British Indian Army. His mother, Florence Mary Winifred Kettleband (1893–1990), was English. He spent his childhood in Poona (India) and later in Rangoon, capital of British Burma. He was educated at the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Poona, and later at St Paul's High School, Rangoon.〔Pauline Scudamore, ''Spike Milligan: a Biography'' (Granada, 1985), p. 27〕 On leaving school he played the cornet and discovered jazz. He also joined the Young Communist League in opposition of Oswald Mosley's British Union of Fascists, who were gaining support near his home in south London. After returning from Burma, Milligan lived most of his life in the United Kingdom apart from overseas service in the British Army in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Spike Milligan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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