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When the distinguished J. H. Bruce-Lockhart retired as headmaster of Sedbergh in 1954, he took the unusual step of identifying Michael Thornely as his successor. The chairman of the school governors, Viscount Bracken, endorsed his recommendation, the first internal appointment to the headship of Sedbergh since the 16th century.
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Charles Walker was a distinguished civil engineer in Scotland and the Far East who is memorable as the man who tracked down the unmarked grave of the Scottish Olympic athlete Eric Liddell, who died in a Japanese prison camp in 1945.
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Elisabeth Söderström was one of the most natural performers in opera. She regarded herself as a storyteller; vocalism for its own sake did not interest her, and she often said that her own voice was nothing special. There she was mistaken: she had an immediately recognisable lyric-soprano timbre, shimmering on top but warm in the middle. She triumphed in virtually every style of opera and...
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Derek Boland — or Derek B to use his streetwise hip-hop appellation — was one of Britain’s first home-grown rappers at a time when the form was still essentially an American import, rather than one of the world’s most ubiquitous musical styles, as it has become today.
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Orig Williams was one of the most well-loved villains in sport, a Welsh-speaking native of North Wales who rose to television stardom as a wrestler under the unlikely pseudonym of “El Bandito”. His favourite saying was: “If you don’t like the heat, get out of the kitchen” and, in a succession of sports, his objective was always to raise the temperature to the maximum and...
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Edward Woodward, who has died aged 79, became a household name as Callan, the cold-blooded secret service agent, in the television series of that name, which ran for seven years from the late 1960s.
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Stanley Ellis, who has died aged 83, was Britain’s best-known dialectologist and phonetician. He pioneered the forensic analysis of voice recordings, among them the hoax tape that derailed the Yorkshire Ripper inquiry.
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Allan Titmuss, who has died aged 73, was the power running the Serpentine Swimming Club, the somewhat eccentric Hyde Park institution. He fought hard to ensure that members could swim all the year round in the untreated waters of the lake, where for five months a year the temperature is below 50F. A benign dictator, three days before his death he gave instructions from his hospital bed on the stance...
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LEONARD STEINBERG, described as "the sharpest guy on the block", was born in Belfast, the grandson of Jewish immigrants who had fled from Latvia to avoid persecution in the early years of the 20th century.
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FEW TRADE union leaders had a greater impact on day-to-day industrial relations in Ireland in the second half of the 20th century than Tom Darby, who has died aged 81. His influence was greater than would be expected from the leader of a relatively small union, the National Bus and Rail Workers' Union.
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EDWARD WOODWARD, who has died aged 79, was an English actor with possibly far more potential than was ever realised on screen, but he became a popular television star in and and enjoyed cult success with the film .
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MAJOR ANGUS McCall, who has died aged 87, served with the Irish Guards during the second World War. Later, while serving in Palestine, he was awarded the Military Cross for "gallant and distinguished service".
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Des Bartlett’s filming career spanned more than half a century and six continents, and yielded more than 200 films for television and cinema. He was the cameraman for the iconic On Safari with Armand and Michaela Denis series shown on the BBC in the 1950s and 1960s. He went on to film The Incredible Flight of the Snow Geese and many other programmes for Survival Anglia, and Survivors of the Skeleton...
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Professor Barrie Rickards was a distinguished palaeontologist who wrote prolifically on his subject and an ardent angler, the author or co-author of 31 books on fish and their habitats.
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Jeanne-Claude met Christo in Paris after he had fled, via Austria, from the intolerable restrictions of the communist bloc in Bulgaria. The year was 1958. From then on these two brave, determined and resourceful artists worked together on an astonishing variety of projects.
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