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Bryan Martin (1935-2009)
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:49:06 -0700 (PDT)
Bryan Martin, who died on March 4 2009 aged 73, was one of the voices
of BBC Radio 4; he announced the death of Elvis Presley in 1977, news
of the Iranian embassy siege in 1980, and became the network's senior
newsreader.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5033728/Bryan-Martin.html
As well as his rout ...
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Gerard Morgan-Grenville (1931-2009)
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:45:39 -0700 (PDT)
Gerard Morgan-Grenville, who died 2 March, 2009, was a scion of the
Lords Kinloss, and a great-grandson of the last Duke of Buckingham and
Chandos, who lost the family seat at Stowe.
He was a grandson of Mary, Lady Kinloss (peeress in her own right).
Gerard Wyndham Morgan-Grenville was born 26 March 1931 at Ipin ...
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Michael Beauchamp St John, DSC (1915-2009)
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:32:22 -0700 (PDT)
_.Michael Beauchamp St John, DSC; Royal Navy retd. died 23 January,
2009. He was a scion of the Barons St John of Bletso (Baron E, 1559).
Born 1915, a son of Maj. Beauchamp Tudor St John (1880-1965), by his
wife Madeleine Ethel Goodbody (d 1982); married 1944, Pamela Patience
Guinness, scion of the banking branch ...
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Margaret Mellis (1914-2009)
Mon, 23 Mar 2009 11:29:47 -0700 (PDT)
Margaret Mellis, who died on March 17 2009, aged 95, was one of the
last surviving artists from the St Ives group of the 1930s, though it
was in Suffolk, rather than Cornwall, that she developed a style that
was most distinctively her own.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5033732/Margaret-Mellis.html
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Jade Goody (1981-2009)
Sun, 22 Mar 2009 03:07:42 -0700 (PDT)
LONDON (AP) ? Jade Goody, a dental assistant turned reality-TV star
whose whirlwind journey from poverty to celebrity to tragedy became a
national soap opera and morality tale in Britain, has died. The 27-
year-old had cancer and died in her sleep early Sunday at her home in
Essex, southeast England, her publicist ...
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7th Baron Kilmarnock (1927-2009)
Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:13:01 -0700 (PDT)
The 7th Baron Kilmarnock, who died 19 March 2009, aged 81, was head of
the Clan Boyd, a gifted writer, lifelong Hispanophile and chairman of
the all-party parliamentary group on Aids.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/5024450/Lord-Kilmarnock.html
Alastair Ivor Gilbert Boyd was born 11 May 1927 and e ...
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Squadron Leader Thomas McPhee, DFC, DFM, AE (1917-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:30:18 -0700 (PDT)
Squadron Leader Thomas McPhee, DFC, DFM, AE, wartime bomber pilot, was
born on November 30, 1917. He died on February 22, 2009, aged 91. s a
Mosquito pilot with 464 Squadron in February 1944, Thomas McPhee took
part in one of the most remarkable precision bombing raids of the war,
?Operation Jericho?, which breach ...
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Robert Eden, CBE (1920-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:28:24 -0700 (PDT)
Robert Eden, CBE, geologist, was born on August 14, 1920. He died on
January 15, 2009, aged 88. Robert Eden's varied career spanned six
decades at a time when modern geological techniques were being
developed. In the late 1960s he was based in Edinburgh and, having
already been at the forefront of underwater geolo ...
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Professor George Holmes (1927-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:24:26 -0700 (PDT)
Professor George Holmes, historian, was born on April 22, 1927. He
died on January 29, 2009, aged 81. While university historians have
increasingly tended to specialise, George Holmes, remarkably, turned
his attention from the minutiae of baronial landholdings in England to
Renaissance thought in Italian cities.
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His Honour Andrew Brooks (1931-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:22:44 -0700 (PDT)
His Honour Andrew Brooks, circuit judge, 1985-98, was born on March
31, 1931. He died of cancer on March 1, 2009, aged 77 .....Andrew
Brooks brought administrative skills that he honed in the Colonial
Service to bear on the reorganisation of Snaresbrook, the largest
Crown Court trial centre in England, where he wa ...
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