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Roy Rowe, CBE (1929-2008)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:30:23 -0800 (PST)
Roy Rowe, CBE, structural engineer, was born on January 26, 1929. He
died of heart disease on December 18, 2008, aged 79. He was
responsible for helping to develop the engineering expertise that made
it possible to build lightweight concrete bridges and elevated
roadways that revolutionised Britain?s highways from ...
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Philip Jones (1933-2008)
Wed, 4 Feb 2009 10:18:23 -0800 (PST)
Philip Jones, painter, was born on April 1, 1933. He died on December
31, 2008, aged 75.
Philip Jones was one of the most distinguished and individual British
painters of the generation born in the 1930s, younger than the Neo-
Romantics who came to the fore in the war years and senior to the
second wave of St I ...
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Debora Matthews (1962-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:58:18 -0800 (PST)
Debora Matthews, director of the judicial offices for England and
Wales, was born on August 7, 1962. She died of cancer on January 10,
2009, aged 46. Debora Matthews broke new ground as the first senior
civil servant appointed to directly support judges and magistrates in
England and Wales in their off-the-bench r ...
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Aubrey Powell (c1918-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:55:10 -0800 (PST)
Aubrey Powell, who died January 27, 2009, aged 90, was a Welsh
international who began his professional footballing career at Leeds
United in 1935. Two years later, he suffered a career-threatening
broken leg during at match but managed to resumed playing 18 months
later.
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/obituari ...
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Vic Crowe (1932-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:50:43 -0800 (PST)
Victor Herbert Crowe, footballer and manager; born Abercynon,
Glamorgan, 31 January 1932; played for Aston Villa 1952-64,
Peterborough United 1964-67, Atlanta Chiefs 1967-69; capped 16 times
by Wales 1958-62; managed Aston Villa 1970-74, Portland Timbers
1975-76; married (two sons); died Sutton Coldfield 21 Januar ...
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Paul Birch, former Aston Villa and Wolves midfielder, aged 46
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:46:08 -0800 (PST)
The former Aston Villa and Wolves midfielder Paul Birch has died at
the age of 46 after a battle with cancer. Birch, who was diagnosed
with bone cancer in May last year, died this morning at Good Hope
hospital in Sutton Coldfield. He came through Villa's youth team and
made more than 200 appearances for the club ...
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Colin Barry Phipps (1934-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:42:09 -0800 (PST)
Colin Barry Phipps, geologist and politician, born 23 July 1934; died
10 January 2009. Colin Phipps, who has died aged 74, had two parallel,
but uneven, careers. The less successful was that of a politician,
during which he won only two elections out of six tries for Labour and
then the SDP, taking Dudley West in ...
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Rose Davis (1941-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:32:03 -0800 (PST)
Rose Davis, who died on January 31 2009 aged 67, became the public
face of the campaign to free her husband, George Davis, after his
conviction for armed robbery in 1975; the campaign culminated in the
pitch at the Headingley cricket ground being dug up, preventing
further play in the Test match between England an ...
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Colonel Edward "Tug" Wilson (1921-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:30:37 -0800 (PST)
Colonel Edward "Tug" Wilson, who died January 2, 2009, aged 87, was
the founder and first commander of the Abu Dhabi Defence Force. As a
major in the Worcestershire Regiment he volunteered in 1961 for
service with the Trucial Oman Scouts, and took command of "A" Squadron
in a Beau Geste-style fort at the Buraimi O ...
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Stewart Morris (1930-2009)
Tue, 3 Feb 2009 10:27:28 -0800 (PST)
Stewart Morris, who died on January 10 2009 aged 78, produced some of
the best known and most innovative shows in the heyday of BBC TV light
entertainment.
Physically imposing and utterly fearless, Morris had a barking voice,
a cutting wit, a way with talent and superb technical expertise. Above
all, he was pre ...
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