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Patrick Kinna, MBE (1913-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:20:16 -0700 (PDT)
Patrick Kinna, MBE, confidential assistant to Winston Churchill,
1941-45, was born on September 5, 1913. He died on March 14, 2009,
aged 95.
While accompanying Winston Churchill as confidential assistant on
every foreign trip he made as Prime Minister during four years,
1941-45, of the Second World War, the sho ...
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Professor Rupert Hall (1920-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:18:05 -0700 (PDT)
Rupert Hall was a leading member of the generation of scholars who set
standards for the history of science and technology in the second half
of the 20th century. He played a crucial role in developing the
discipline during its formative period in the UK. His book The
Scientific Revolution (1954) established the u ...
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Marie Boas Hall (1919-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:16:18 -0700 (PDT)
Marie Boas Hall, historian of science, was born on October 18, 1919.
She died on February 23, 2009, aged 89. Marie Boas Hall was one of the
pioneers in the postwar period of the study of the history of science
in the 16th and 17th centuries, the so-called Scientific Revolution.
With her husband, Professor A. Ruper ...
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Maj. Seth Kwabla Anthony (1915-2008)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:13:29 -0700 (PDT)
Seth Kwabla Anthony, soldier, diplomat and administrator: born Accra,
Ghana 15 June 1915; married (two sons, five daughters); died Accra 20
November 2008.
Major Seth Kwabla Anthony, served in the British Army's 81st division
of the Royal West African Frontier Force (RWAFF) as the first black
African to win His ...
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Professor Nathaniel Lichfield (1916-2009)
Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:10:53 -0700 (PDT)
Nathaniel Lichfield, urban and environmental planner, born 29 February
1916; died 27 February 2009. Professor Nathaniel Lichfield, who has
died aged 92, was one of Britain's outstanding scholar-practitioners
of town and country planning. His contributions extended over more
than 60 years, continuing long after his ...
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7th Marquess Conyngham (1924-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:57:50 -0700 (PDT)
The 7th Marquess Conyngham has died after a battle with cancer.
Frederick William Henry Francis Conyngham, the 7th Marquess in the
Peerage of Ireland, was known to family and friends as "Mount." He
was
84 years old. He was Marquess and Earl Conyngham, Earl of Mount
Charles, Viscount Slane, Conyngham, in Ireland ...
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Healthwatch: Natasha Richardson, actress
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:44:42 -0700 (PDT)
Actress Natasha Richardson's family have gathered at her bedside in
New York's Lenox Hill Hospital. The 45-year-old is in a critical
condition following a skiing accident in Canada on Monday March 16
2009. She was flown by private jet to the US on Tuesday, accompanied
by her actor husband Liam Neeson. Their sons, ...
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Hon (Mary) Katharine Medina Duckworth c. 1911-2009
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:39:29 -0700 (PDT)
The Hon (Mary) Katharine Medina Duckworth (nee Chatfield), OBE, who
died 14 March, 2009, aged 97, was b circa 1911, second of the three
children of the 1st Baron Chatfield, PC, GCB, OM, KCMG, CVO
(1873-1967), by his wife the former Lillian Emma Matthews; she
married
22 Sept, 1947, Henry George Austen de l'Etang H ...
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Geoffrey Smith (c1928-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:34:20 -0700 (PDT)
GARDENING, as a subject for radio and television entertainment, has
attracted its full quota of characters over the years, and none was
more colourful, and authoritative, than the master gardener Geoffrey
Smith. He brought to his expertise an authority which only the bravest
might have questioned. If gardeners nee ...
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Prof Gareth Alban Davies (1926-2009)
Wed, 18 Mar 2009 13:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
Prof Gareth Alban Davies, writer and Hispanist: born Ton Pentre,
Rhondda Fawr, Glamorgan 30 July 1926; married 1953 Caryl Glyn Jones
(died 2007; one son, three daughters); Professor of Spanish,
University of Leeds, 1975-86; died Aberystwyth 9 February 2009.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/gareth-alb ...
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