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Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck 1916-2008
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:20:33 -0700 (PDT)
The Lady Alexandra Margaret Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, landowner: born 6
September 1916; died 29 December 2008. Daughter of the 7th Duke of
Portland.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/lady-anne-bentinck-landowner-who-brought-modernity-to-welbeck-1643919.html ...
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Sir Martin Doughty (1949-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:17:41 -0700 (PDT)
Sir Graham Martin Doughty, conservationist: born 11 October 1949;
lecturer, Sheffield Polytechnic (later Sheffield Hallam University)
1973-90, senior lecturer, 1990-95; council leader, Derbyshire County
Council, 1992-2001; chairman, Peak District National Park Authority,
1993-2002; chairman, Association of Nationa ...
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Leslie Conn (1929-2008)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:15:37 -0700 (PDT)
Leslie Conn, pop music entrepreneur, born Stamford Hill, London 14
December 1929; married 1953 Monica Mendoza (marriage dissolved 1965,
one daughter); died Marble Arch, London 13 December 2008.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/les-conn-pop-manager-and-promoter-who-handled-the-early-careers-of-david-bo ...
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Major-General Antonin Petrak (1912-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:11:36 -0700 (PDT)
Major-General Antonin Petrak, who died February 7 2009 aged 96,
escaped to Britain after the Nazi invasion of his native
Czechoslovakia; he subsequently won the Military Cross and served with
the SOE on the plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich. On his return
home, however, he was hounded for decades by the commun ...
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Sir Charles Willink, 2nd Baronet (1929-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:09:09 -0700 (PDT)
Sir Charles Willink, 2nd Bt, who died in London on March 10 2009 aged
79, was a classical scholar and one of those involved in the idea to
reconstruct, in the 1980s, the trireme, the Greek warship which
brought about the conquest of the Mediterranean by the Athenians.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5 ...
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Sir Nicholas Henderson, GCMG, KCVO (1919-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:07:35 -0700 (PDT)
Sir Nicholas Henderson, GCMG, KCVO, who died on March 16 2009 aged 89,
was Britain's ambassador in three of the most important diplomatic
posts ? Bonn, Paris and Washington; in the last of these he played a
crucial role in securing American backing for Britain in the Falklands
War.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/ne ...
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Bluey Mavroleon (1927-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:05:51 -0700 (PDT)
Bluey Mavroleon, who died on February 16 2009 aged 81, was a ship
owner, Grenadier Guardsman, yachtsman, pilot, patriot, a good shot and
a famously generous host. Manuel Basil Mavroleon was born on April 17
1927, the son of Basil Mavroleon and his English wife Violet (n¨¦e
Withers). The name "Bluey" arose from his ...
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Eric Simms (1921-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:03:57 -0700 (PDT)
Eric Simms, who has died aged 87, was for 40 years one of the most
familiar voices on the BBC at home and abroad as a pioneer of natural
history, making more than 7,000 radio broadcasts and appearing on
television some 700 times.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5007637/Eric-Simms.html
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Surgeon Vice-Admiral Ian Jenkins, CB, CVO (1944-2009)
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:50:28 -0700 (PDT)
Surgeon Vice-Admiral Ian Jenkins, who has died aged 64, was Constable
and Governor of Windsor Castle. The Governor lives in the Round Tower,
and represents the castle in the town of Windsor. As the Queen's
"right-hand man" there he greets visiting heads of state, and in June
he leads the annual Garter procession d ...
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Joan Turner (1922-2009)
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:47:51 -0700 (PDT)
Joan Turner, who died on March 1 2009 aged 86, was ranked among
Britain's leading entertainers in the 1950s and 1960s, topping the
bill above The Beatles and appearing in Royal Variety Shows before
drink and gambling took their toll.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4949910/Joan-Turner.html
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