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Candida Tobin, 82, best known for her Tobin Music System
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:28:45 -0800 (PST)
Candida Tobin, who has died aged 82, was best known for her Tobin
Music System, a method of teaching children of all abilities. She was
also a musician, publisher, teacher and entrepreneur, besides being a
wife and mother.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/jan/26/obituary-candida-tobin
She was born C ...
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Re: Christopher Hibbert (1924-2008)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:26:09 -0800 (PST)
It is a well known fact that Christopher Hibbert, who has died aged
84, was the best loved and most widely read popular historian of the
latter part of the last century. "It's a well known fact that ..." was
how he would start, and embark on some wildly exaggerated and
embroidered story to the delight of his frien ...
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Most Reverend John Grindrod (1919-2009)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:23:45 -0800 (PST)
The Most Reverend John Grindrod, who died on January 3 2009 aged 89,
was Archbishop of Brisbane from 1980 to 1989, and the last Englishman
to be Primate of the Anglican Church in Australia.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/4363100/The-Most-Reverend-John-Grindrod.html
His strong pastoral sense include ...
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Christopher Wood (1941-2009)
Wed, 28 Jan 2009 10:22:26 -0800 (PST)
Christopher Wood, who died on January 6 2009 aged 67, was an art
dealer at the forefront of the revival of interest in Victorian art in
the late 20th century.
Wood specialised in Pre-Raphaelite and Victorian paintings,
watercolours and drawings, as well as in the Arts and Crafts movement
and Gothic revival furn ...
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Rear-Admiral Courtney Anderson (1916-2008)
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:13:50 -0800 (PST)
Rear-Admiral Courtney Anderson, who died 8 Dec, 2008, aged 92, began a
distinguished operational career as a motor torpedo boat captain in
the 10th MTB flotilla, a collection of obsolete craft that broke down
so often it was nicknamed the "Wobbly Tenth".
He was first asked to return home three Belgian ministers, ...
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Ivor Spencer (1924-2009)
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:10:35 -0800 (PST)
Ivor Spencer, who died on January 10 2009, aged 84, not only turned
himself into Britain's best-known toastmaster but also resurrected ?
and to some extent reinvented ? the profession of the butler.
Spencer's progress from a working-class background in the East End of
London to rubbing shoulders with the rich an ...
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Dr Mary Corbett, FRCP (1933-2009)
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:05:01 -0800 (PST)
Dr Mary Corbett, FRCP, consultant rheumatologist at the Middlesex
Hospital, 1969-94, was born on February 8, 1933. She died of cancer on
January 17, 2009, aged 75. Until the 1960s UK hospital departments
treating rheumatoid arthritis (RA) laboured under a considerable
disadvantage in that there was not yet any rig ...
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Lord Lane of Horsell (1925-2009)
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:02:36 -0800 (PST)
Lord Lane of Horsell, Tory party activist and Binder Hamlyn senior
partner 1979-92, was born on January 29, 1925. He died on January 9,
2009, aged 83.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article5586378.ece
Lord Lane of Horsell was one of the behind-the-scenes figures in the
Conservative Party ...
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Johnny Dixon (1923-2009)
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:57:45 -0800 (PST)
John Thomas Dixon, footballer; born Hebburn, County Durham 10 December
1923; played for Aston Villa 1944-61; married (one son, one
daughter);died Tamworth, Staffordshire 20 January 2009.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/johnny-dixon-footballer-who-led-aston-villa-to-victory-in-the-1957-fa-cup-final-15 ...
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Reg Gutteridge, OBE (1924-2009)
Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:36:33 -0800 (PST)
Legendary boxing commentator Reg Gutteridge has died at the age of 84.
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The journalist, who boxed as an amateur, became a reporter after the
Second World War when he lost a leg after stepping on a landmine at
Normandy.
He became a household name as ITV's voice of boxing, forming a
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