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Kenneth Munro (1936-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:10:16 -0700 (PDT)
Kenneth Munro, head of the European Commission in Scotland, 1988-1998,
was born on December 17, 1936. He died of cancer on September 23,
2008, aged 71.
Kenneth Munro was one of that remarkable generation of Glasgow
University students groomed for political life in the debating chamber
of the University Union in ...
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Rev. David D. Ogston (1945-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:07:58 -0700 (PDT)
David Ogston was one of the most creative ministers in the Church of
Scotland. Brought up in Aberdeenshire and educated at Aberdeen
University, he never lost his love of the areas Doric language. He
wrote two books describing his childhood on a farm near the village of
Kinnellar, in the Doric language of his nativ ...
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Mary Hall (Mother Rosario) (1928-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:05:58 -0700 (PDT)
Mary Hall (Mother Rosario), founder of the Multi Faith Centre,
Birmingham, was born on November 30, 1928. She died on September 5,
2008, aged 79.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article4827334.ece
When at the age of 18 Mary Hall decided not to enter the fashion
business (her mother was a f ...
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Jan Nasmyth (1918-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 14:03:23 -0700 (PDT)
Jan Nasmyth was an acute but unconventional observer of the
international oil industry whose comments on oil prices were required
reading in boardrooms and at trading desks. The company he founded in
1970, Argus Media Group, is one of the oil industry?s principal
sources of news and price information.
Jan Nasmy ...
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Marjorie Thomas (1923-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
Marjorie Thomas, contralto, born June 5 1923; died September 12 2008.
Before the English contralto became an endangered species, Marjorie
Thomas - who has died aged 85 after a long illness - was one of those
who gave the voice its postwar Indian summer. She established a
considerable recorded legacy under the comp ...
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Gordon Turner (c1918-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:29:59 -0700 (PDT)
In 1944 Gordon Turner, who has died aged 90, played a vital role in
Operation Halyard, the largest allied airlift behind enemy lines of
the second world war - though it was not until 2000 when I tracked
down some of the survivors that he realised the extent of his role.
He was serving in Italy as chief signals off ...
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Michael Edward Mallett (1932-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:28:26 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Edward Mallett, historian, born July 14 1932; died September 2
2008. The Renaissance historian Michael Mallett, who has died aged 76,
claimed that he told "a tale of two cities" - Florence and Venice -
but his studies of military and diplomatic history confirm that his
command ranged well beyond those two ...
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William Woodruff (1916-2008)
Thu, 25 Sep 2008 10:20:36 -0700 (PDT)
William Woodruff, who died 23 September 2008, aged 92, enjoyed a late
celebrity in his eighties when his gritty two-volume memoir, The Road
to Nab End (2000) and Beyond Nab End (2003), became surprise
bestsellers. Woodruff was brought up in penury among the cotton mills
of Blackburn, and eventually made his mark ...
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Richard Austin James (1922-2008)
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Austin James, wartime soldier and civil servant: born Sutton
Valance School, Kent 26 November 1922 ; married Joan Boorer 1948 (one
son, two daughters); died 10 September 2008.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lives-remembered-jimmy-james-940211.html ...
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Dr John Dew, MBE (1920-2008)
Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
Dr John Dew became the best known and certainly best loved character
in Horsham, West Sussex, where he was born, lived for most of his life
and served the community in a manner that is increasingly rare, if not
almost extinct in today?s peripatetic society. Beyond his home town he
was renowned as a cricketer, espe ...
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