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Elizabeth Cameron (1915-2008)
Wed, 21 Jan 2009 11:41:07 -0800 (PST)
Elizabeth Cameron, who has died aged 93, became one of Britain?s
leading botanical artists after making a successful career as a frozen
food entrepreneur.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4308570/Elizabeth-Cameron.html
She was born Mary Elizabeth Vaughan-Lee at Dillington, Somerset, on
November 28 1 ...
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Tessa (Teresa Margaret) Bonner (1951-2008)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:50:29 -0800 (PST)
Tessa (Teresa Margaret) Bonner, soprano, born 28 February 1951; died
31 December 2008. While Tessa Bonner, who has died of cancer aged 57,
enjoyed a significant career as a classical singer, it fell well
outside the usual world of concert hall and opera house. Indeed, it
took her along a path that a piano-playing ...
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David Vine (1935-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:45:35 -0800 (PST)
David Vine, who died 11 January, 2009, of a heart attack at the age of
74, was a multi-purpose sports presenter and commentator for the BBC
for 35 years, long associated with snooker and Ski Sunday. Known for
his distinctive West Country tones, he always had the assured self-
confidence to weather jokes about his ...
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Mick Imlah (1956-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:43:15 -0800 (PST)
Mick Imlah, who died 12 January, 2009, aged 52, was one of the most
brilliant poets of his generation. His work, collected in the two
volumes Birthmarks (1988) and The Lost Leader (2008), reveals a poetic
sensibility that was utterly original; his poems are by turns lyrical,
sardonic, hilarious and unsettling. Lik ...
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Les Barton, cartoonist
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:40:54 -0800 (PST)
A generation of children grew up giggling to comic strips in Sparky
and Whizzer & Chips, drawn by my father, Les Barton, who has died aged
84. He was also a prolific cartoon artist, his gags - populated by
wide-eyed folk and often signed Lezz - appearing regularly from the
mid-1950s in Punch, Private Eye, the Dail ...
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Jan Kaplicky (1937-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:38:33 -0800 (PST)
Jan Kaplicky, who died 14 January, 2009, aged 71, was the Czech
architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that
Britain has ever seen. Hovering low over the stands at Lord's cricket
ground is the press box he built with his former partner, Amanda
Levete. It is an otherworldly, entirely unboxy, ...
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Vivian Ridler (1913-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:35:31 -0800 (PST)
Vivian Ridler, who died 13 January, 2009, aged 95, was printer to the
University of Oxford from 1958 until 1978, and perhaps the outstanding
holder of this prestigious post since academic printing began in
Oxford in 1478 (two years after William Caxton set up his press). Only
11 years after his retirement, the del ...
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Nesta Roberts (1913-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:29:33 -0800 (PST)
Nesta Roberts, who died 16 January, 2009, aged 96, started to write
for what was then the Manchester Guardian when she was 19. She was the
first news editor in London when the paper started to print there, and
ended her career as Paris correspondent. During the events of May
1968, she had a lively time, her outloo ...
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Kathleen Byron (1921-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:27:56 -0800 (PST)
The startling sequence of a lust-crazed nun changing the habit of a
lifetime for a provocative dress and garish lipstick, before
attempting murder, remains one of the most erotically charged episodes
in all cinema. The film was Black Narcissus (1947), and the
hysterically jealous Sister Ruth was played by the lumi ...
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John Rettie (1925-2009)
Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:25:51 -0800 (PST)
John Rettie, who has died aged 83, was among the last of those
gentleman foreign reporters who deployed their linguistic skills and
historical understanding to illuminate the countries in which they
were stationed. Writing for nearly half a century, mostly for the
Guardian and Reuters, and broadcasting for the BBC ...
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