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Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Arthur George Brooke (1920-2009)
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:36:03 -0800 (PST)
Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Brooke, who died January 6, 2009, aged
88, was serving in the battleship Prince of Wales when she was sunk in
December 1941, and two months later made a dramatic escape from
Singapore just before the Japanese arrived.
On the night of Friday February 13 1942 he left Singapore in an
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Sir Richard Beaumont, KCMG (1912-2009)
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:30:09 -0800 (PST)
Sir Richard Beaumont, who died on January 23 2009 aged 96, could be
said to have personified the Arabist, that bogeyman sometimes alleged
to stalk the corridors of the Foreign Office and to exercise undue
influence on British foreign policy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4376028/Sir-Richard-Beaumont ...
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Chief Petty Officer William Frederick (Bill) Stone (1900-2008)
Thu, 29 Jan 2009 08:38:18 -0800 (PST)
Chief Petty Officer Bill Stone, who died on January 10 2009 aged 108,
was the last man to have served in the Royal Navy during both world
wars.
When Stone received a letter summoning him to Exeter for conscription
into the army in September 1918, he took the train to Plymouth and
joined the navy instead. He ser ...
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Sir John Hugh Dalrymple-Hay, 7th Baronet (1929-2009)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:43:32 -0800 (PST)
Sir John Hugh Dalrymple-Hay, 7th Baronet, died 20 January, 2009. He
was aged 79.
He was born 16 Dec 1929, yr son of Lieutenant-Colonel Brian George
Rowland Dalrymple-Hay (a descendant of the 2nd Bart); educated at
Blundell's School.
Career:->sometime Capt, Royal Scots Fusiliers; succeeded to the
baronetcy on ...
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4th Baron Blyth (1931-2009)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 14:33:13 -0800 (PST)
_.The 4th Baron Blyth (Peerage of the UK, cr 1907), died 20 January,
2009. He was aged 77.
Anthony Audley Rupert Blyth was b 3 Jun 1931, son of the 3rd Baron by
his wife the former Edna Myrtle Lewis (d 1952); succeeded to the
peerage on the demise of his father, 1977.
Married 1stly, 1954 (div 1962), Elizabeth ...
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Professor Joel Mandelstam, FRS (1919-2008)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:49:46 -0800 (PST)
Joel Mandelstam was a pioneer in using bacteria to study fundamental
biological phenomena, such as development, which had more usually been
investigated in higher organisms. The latter part of his career was
spent in research into spore formation, a feature of certain
bacteria.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ ...
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Sir Russell Wood, KCVO, VRD (1922-2008)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:47:16 -0800 (PST)
Sir Russell Wood, KCVO, VRD, naval aviator and Deputy Treasurer to the
Queen 1969-85, was born on May 16, 1922. He died on December 15, 2008,
aged 86. Russell Wood?s lengthy service in the Fleet Air Arm and his
survival from 1942 to 1945 in the same squadron despite enemy action
and his ration of engine failures ...
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Professor Olek Zienkiewicz, CBE, FRS (1921-2009)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:45:23 -0800 (PST)
Professor Olek Zienkiewicz, CBE, FRS, academic and expert in
computational modelling, was born on May 18, 1921. He died on January
2, 2009, aged 87. Olek Zienkiewicz is internationally recognised as
the leading founder of the Finite Element Method, which is a computer-
based technique that has, since the 1960s, ...
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Nick Terry (1947-2008)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:41:12 -0800 (PST)
Nicholas John Terry, architect: born Nottingham 12 November 1947;
architect, Terry Associates, Bath 1970-72; architect, Building Design
Partnership, Manchester 1972-75; architect, Arthur Erickson
Architects, Canada 1975-77; architect, J.S. Bonnington Partnership, St
Albans 1978-81; Managing Director, Heery Archite ...
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James Lebon (1959-2008)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:39:53 -0800 (PST)
James Manuel Lebon, hairdresser, filmmaker, fashion retailer, graphic
artist, lecturer: born London 3 May 1959; married 2001 Moni Ling (two
children); died Hemel Hempstead 22 December 2008.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-lebon-video-director-and-graphic-artist-who-epitomised-fashionable-london ...
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