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Major Simon Gordon-Duff (1942-2009)
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:57:04 -0800 (PST)
Major Simon Gordon-Duff, army helicopter pilot, was born on July 24,
1942. He died of cancer on January 3, 2009, aged 66. The British
Commander-in-Chief?s Mission to the Soviet Forces of Occupation in
Germany (BRIXMIS) and its counterpart SOXMIS were established in 1946
as a means of building mutual confidence ...
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Sally Ledger (1961-2009)
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:51:30 -0800 (PST)
Sally Ledger, English scholar: born East Grinstead, Sussex 14 December
1961;lecturer in Victorian Studies, Birkbeck College, London
University 1995-2001, reader 2001-06, professor 2006-08;Hildred
Carlile Chair in English, Royal Holloway, University of London2008;
married 1988 Jim Porteous (one son); died Letchwort ...
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Harold Blackham (1903-2009)
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:35:37 -0800 (PST)
Harold Blackham, who has died aged 105, was the father of modern
humanism. He perceived a humanist tradition - of free inquiry, human-
centred ethics and a naturalistic worldview - stretching from the
ancient philosophers to the present day and sought to create a
movement of organisations that would promote this t ...
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Richard Salter (1943-2009)
Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:13:23 -0800 (PST)
The baritone Richard Salter, who died 1 February, 2009, aged 65, only
appeared once on the British operatic stage - in 1986, as Chorebus in
The Trojans at Opera North. Yet he was famous in Germany, made
Bayerischer Kammers?nger in 1994, and was the baritone of choice
throughout the German-speaking world for contem ...
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Wing Commander Peter Dunning-White (1915-2008)
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 12:12:03 -0800 (PST)
Wing Commander Peter Dunning-White, who died 27 Dec, 2008, aged 93,
was a dashing fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain; nicknamed
"Stunning Black", he was a member of the "Millionaires' Squadron"
formed in Whites club, London. He joined No 145 Squadron at
Westhampnett near Chichester in early July 1940 and w ...
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Harry Hammond (1920-2009)
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:59:02 -0800 (PST)
Harry Hammond, who died on February 4 2009 aged 88, was one of
Britain's leading showbusiness photographers in the post-war years,
and was later acclaimed as the father of pop photography. His archive
? including shots of virtually every American musician who crossed the
Atlantic in the 1950s, as well as the home- ...
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Dom Benet Perceval (1916-2009)
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:53:09 -0800 (PST)
Dom Benet Perceval, who died 30 January, 2009, aged 92, was a monk at
Ampleforth Abbey, near Helmsley, for almost 75 years, and for over 60
years was on the staff of Ampleforth College. John Peter Westby
Perceval (Benet was the name given to him when he became a monk), was
born in Wimbledon, 26 Jul 1916, and one ...
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2nd Baron Wilson (1915-2009)
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:23:39 -0800 (PST)
The 2nd & last Baron Wilson died 1 February, 2009. He was aged 93.
Patrick Maitland Wilson was born 14 Sept 1915, son of Henry Maitland
Wilson (1881-1964) who was raised to the peerage in 1946, by his wife
the former Hester Mary Wykeham; educated at Eton and King's College,
Cambridge; served in World War II in Gr ...
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Norman Lonsdale, sometime squeeze of Princess Margaret
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:08:58 -0800 (PST)
Norman Lonsdale, who died 6 February, 2009, at the age of 82, of
Kingstone Lisle Park, Wantage, was a former escort of the late
Princess Margaret, and a descendant of the Barons Raglan (and also
from the Dukes of Beaufort); b 3 Dec 1926, son of Captain Leopold
McClintock Lonsdale (b 1911, d.1985), by his wife the ...
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Diana Lady Kinnaird (c1918-2009)
Mon, 9 Feb 2009 11:07:06 -0800 (PST)
Diana Lady Kinnaird, who died 2 February, 2009, aged 90, was the widow
of the 13th Lord Kinnaird (b 15 Sep 1912- d 27 Feb 1997). She was the
former Diana Margaret Copeman, dau of Robert Shuckburgh Copeman, of
Roydon Hall, Diss, Norfolk, and married the then Graham Charles
Kinnaird, as his 2nd wife, in 1940. He suc ...
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