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Michael Grice (1917-2008)
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:18:46 -0800 (PST)
Michael Grice, architect, born 18 February 1917; died 20 December
2008. In the summer of 1939, a group of recent graduates of the
Architectural Association set up a new sort of practice in which
hierarchy would be abolished and all members would be equal. The
Architects Co-Operative Partnership was committed in eq ...
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David Lloyd Meredith (1933-2008)
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:17:21 -0800 (PST)
David Lloyd Meredith, who died 22 Oct, 2008, aged 74, was a stalwart
actor in the physical sense, as well as in his years of service to the
classical theatre. He reached his widest audience as Sergeant Evans in
the BBC's popular police drama Softly, Softly: Task Force.
A spin-off from Z Cars, the series had begu ...
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Audrey Roche (1918-2009)
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:14:21 -0800 (PST)
Audrey Roche, who died on January 13 2009 aged 90, is thought to have
been the only woman decorated for bravery at sea during the Second
World War; as a Wren whose ship had been torpedoed, she saved the life
of a drowning seaman by giving him her lifebelt, and she was mentioned
in despatches. As Third Officer Audr ...
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Capt Richard Michael Townsend Tyler (1916-2009)
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 11:09:54 -0800 (PST)
Capt Richard Michael Townsend Tyler, late the Royal Engineers,
architect, died 13 January, 2009, aged 92. He was b 9 Nov, 1916, in
Ceylon, son of James Tyler by his wife the former Audrey Townsend,
scion of a well-known Anglo-Irish family; married 1944, his step-
sister, Anne Henrietta Congreve (b 1923, d?), dau o ...
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+ Peta Marchioness of Linlithgow, former wife of 4th Marquess of
Linlithgow
Thu, 5 Feb 2009 04:58:47 -0800 (PST)
Peta Marchioness of Linlithgow, 2nd & former wife of the 4th Matquess,
died at her home, 2 February, 2009. She was the former Peta Carol
Binding, dau. of Charles Victor Ormonde Binding, of Congresbury, co.
Somerset, and married in 1980, Adrian John Charles Hope, Earl of
Hopetoun (b 1 Jul 1946), who succeeded his ...
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Neil Robinson (c1935-2009)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:46:54 -0800 (PST)
Neil Robinson, who has died aged 73, was a naturalist who played a
major role in the 1970s in saving the Gait Barrows nature reserve at
Silverdale in Lancashire from the removal of the limestone pavement
and the Ribble estuary reserve from development.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/feb/04/obituary-c ...
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Roy Stewart (1925-2008)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:44:46 -0800 (PST)
Roy Stewart, actor and businessman, born 15 May 1925; died 27 October
2008.
Roy Stewart, who has died aged 83, combined a career as one of the
most prolific black actors in Britain - his output ranging from Jean-
Luc Godard to the Carry Ons - with running a gym and restaurant in
west London. Despite the somewha ...
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Thomas Llewelyn Jones (1915-2009)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:41:07 -0800 (PST)
Thomas Llewelyn Jones, poet and children's writer: born Pentre-cwrt,
Cardiganshire, 11 October 1915; married 1940 Margaret Jones (two
sons); died Pontgarreg, Ceredigion 9 January 2009.
T. Llew Jones wrote some of the best-loved children's books in the
Welsh language. Long before Roald Dahl and J.K. Rowling, he e ...
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Rev Roy Magee, OBE (1930-2009)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:36:42 -0800 (PST)
The Rev Roy Magee, OBE, Presbyterian minister and peacemaker, was born
on January 3, 1930. He died on February 1, 2009, aged 79. If the Rev
Roy Magee had not been a loyalist, he could not have succeeded in his
lifelong mission to help to bring peace to Northern Ireland.
But ? as so often happens when an ideologu ...
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Tony Lucking (1925-2008)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:32:13 -0800 (PST)
Tony Lucking, engineer and air transport expert, was born on May 14,
1925. He died on December 22, 2008, aged 83. Lucking was for half a
century the voice of Britain?s air transport consumers, not least
those in business and industry. Known to all as Citizen Lucking, he
campaigned for competitive and efficient air ...
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