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Hon (Mary) Katharine Medina Duckworth c. 1911-2009
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:39:29 -0700 (PDT)
The Hon (Mary) Katharine Medina Duckworth (nee Chatfield), OBE, who
died 14 March, 2009, aged 97, was b circa 1911, second of the three
children of the 1st Baron Chatfield, PC, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO
(1873-1967), by his wife the former Lillian Emma Matthews; she
married
22 Sept, 1947, Henry George Austen de l'Etang H ...
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Geoffrey Smith (c1928-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT)
GARDENING, as a subject for radio and television entertainment, has
attracted its full quota of characters over the years, and none was
more colourful, and authoritative, than the master gardener Geoffrey
Smith. He brought to his expertise an authority which only the bravest
might have questioned. If gardeners nee ...
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Prof Gareth Alban Davies (1926-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
Prof Gareth Alban Davies, writer and Hispanist: born Ton Pentre,
Rhondda Fawr, Glamorgan 30 July 1926; married 1953 Caryl Glyn Jones
(died 2007; one son, three daughters); Professor of Spanish,
University of Leeds, 1975-86; died Aberystwyth 9 February 2009.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gareth-alb ...
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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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