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John Fairfax (1930-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:45:36 -0800 (PST)
John Fairfax, poet, born 9 November 1930; died January 14 2009. For
some 50 years the poet John Fairfax, who has died aged 78, lived in a
15th-century gamekeeper's thatched cottage, the "Thatch", at
peppercorn rent, thanks to a poetry-loving landowner. Embedded among
beech near the Berkshire village of Hermitage ( ...
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Tom Evans (1919-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:43:10 -0800 (PST)
Thomas Francis Evans, literary scholar, born 22 April 1919; died 10
December 2008. Tom Evans, who has died at the age of 89, was a self-
taught scholar who became an international authority on the life and
works of George Bernard Shaw. For 40 years he edited with great skill
and wit The Shavian, the magazine of th ...
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John Axon (1960-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:39:14 -0800 (PST)
The death of John Axon from a heart attack, aged 48, has robbed
television audiences of a scene-stealing talent for bluff
characterisation and comic bemusement. He was a familiar face as an
administrator on Yorkshire TV's medical drama series The Royal
(2003-05).
Born in Stockport, he was named after his grandf ...
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Douglas Holdstock (1933-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:36:12 -0800 (PST)
Douglas Holdstock, gastroenterologist, was born on October 24, 1933.
He died of brain metastases from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma on November
30, 2008, aged 75. Douglas Holdstock, a gastroenterologist, spent much
of his time publicising the causes and consequences of war,
particularly the medical and environmental effe ...
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Professor Peter Branscombe (1929-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:32:29 -0800 (PST)
Professor Peter Branscombe, German studies scholar and musicologist,
was born on December 7, 1929. He died of cancer on December 31, 2008,
aged 79. Peter Branscombe was a scholar of equal distinction in the
fields of music and German studies, and one with a light touch as well
as formidable thoroughness. Though he ...
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Re: Bob Spiers (1945-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:23:48 -0800 (PST)
Bob Spiers, who has died aged 63, was one of the BBC's most prolific
situation comedy directors responsible for the second series of Fawlty
Towers in 1979, as well as episodes of French and Saunders, Absolutely
Fabulous and Dad's Army.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4317622/Bob-Spiers.html
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Wing Commander Jack Hoskins (1916-2008)
Thu, 22 Jan 2009 12:22:22 -0800 (PST)
Wing Commander Jack Hoskins, who died 16 Dec, 2008, aged 92, played a
pivotal role seeking out and destroying Axis convoys to North Africa
which were loaded with essential supplies for Rommel's forces engaged
against the British Eighth Army ? air attacks which proved crucial in
the Allied victory in the African ca ...
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Stewart Morris (1930-2009)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:56:28 -0800 (PST)
Stewart Morris, television producer, was born on March 30, 1930. He
died after a short illness on January 10, 2009 aged 78. In the golden
age of British light entertainment Stewart Morris was the last of the
great showman producers. Briefly head of Variety at the BBC, Morris
worked with some of the all-time great ...
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Patricia Kneale (1925-2008)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:54:59 -0800 (PST)
Patricia Kneale, actress, was born on October 17, 1925. She died on
December 27, 2008, aged 83. For over 40 years on the British classical
stage Patricia Kneale was an actress who relished the open-air
theatre. It was the Regent?s Park open-air theatre that gave Kneale
her reputation as one of its better actresses ...
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Angela Morley (1924-2009)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 12:53:02 -0800 (PST)
Angela Morley, conductor, composer and arranger, was born on March 10,
1924. She died on January 14, 2009, aged 84. Angela Morley was a
versatile musician, a composer, arranger and conductor, who began her
professional life as Wally Stott and became nationally known in the
1950s as a stalwart of The Goon Show befo ...
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