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Obituaries

Lucy Appleby

Lucy Appleby

Traditional cheesemaker who survived the supermarket ban on unpasteurised varieties to become a great success

Thomas Cocke

Thomas Cocke

Architectural historian who made an invaluable contribution to the preservation of Britain’s ecclesiastical heritage

Frederick Bonnart

Frederick Bonnart

Army officer who took part in the D-Day landings and became a defence journalist focusing on Nato

John Hopkins

Librarian and fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London whose association with the institution spanned 74 years

Elaine Dundy

American novelist, biographer and long-suffering wife of the critic Kenneth Tynan who lived and loved life to the full

Country music singer Eddy Arnold plays guitar in 1968

Eddy Arnold

Country singer who turned from ‘Tennessee plowboy’ to huge pop star

Ian Brodie

Ian Brodie

Dedicated British foreign correspondent who managed to find himself at the heart of numerous historic events

Jim Biddulph

BBC reporter who covered crises from UDI in 1965, through the 1968 Paris événements to the end of the Vietnam War

Diana Barnato Walker

Wartime ‘Atagirl’ who delivered aircraft to squadrons and later joined the Ten-Ton Club by flying the 1,000mph Lightning

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Werner Groebli, known to the ice skating world as Mr. Frick, doing his signature cantilevered routine about 1973

Werner Groebli

Ice-skating comedian who invented the fearsome cantilever move and was one half of the Frick and Frack partnership

Irvine Robbins, co-founder of Baskin-Robbins, in 1976

Irvine Robbins

Co -founder of the ice -cream parlour chain known for wacky flavours

Professor W . R. Keatinge

Scientist who showed that denizens of temperate climes are more likely to die of heat or cold than those in torrid or icy zones

Mary Berry

Musicologist, nun and Cambridge don who dedicated her life to reviving Gregorian chant

Professor Tom Whiteside

Professor Tom Whiteside

Historian of mathematics who devoted his life to editing the vast Isaac Newton archive of manuscripts in Latin

Professor A. D. Woozley

Professor A. D. Woozley

A pioneer of ordinary language philosophy who combined the study of philosophy and law at Oxford and elsewhere

Mike Titcomb

Top rugby referee whose career survived ‘the drop goal that never was’

Gordon Bradley

British footballer who coached US teams and was known as ‘Mr Soccer’

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Lord Holme of Cheltenham

Lord Holme of Cheltenham

Liberal Party strategist who advised on merger with the SDP and co-operation with new Labour

Jimmy Giuffre

Jimmy Giuffre

Clarinettist, saxophonist and composer who pushed free jazz to the outer limits and later concentrated on teaching

Bebe Barron

Avant-garde composer who joined her husband in writing the first entirely electronic score for a Hollywood movie

Eugene Ehrlich

Eugene Ehrlich

Compiler of thesauruses and dictionaries who produced many entertaining linguistic guides

Jonathan Williams

Poet and publisher who found inspiration in Mahler’s music

Robert Greacen

Poet who at the request of T. S. Eliot compiled The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

Sir Anthony Kershaw

Sir Anthony Kershaw

Long-serving Conservative MP who was a junior minister in Ted Heath’s Government and whose passion was hunting

Philipp von Boeselager

Philipp von Boeselager

German cavalry officer who supplied explosives for the unsuccessful attempt on Hitler’s life in July 1944

Leopoldo Calvo Sotelo

Post-Franco Prime Minister of Spain who survived an attempted coup and was determined to see the country join Nato

Richard Alexander

Hardline Thatcherite Tory MP who nevertheless led a rearguard action against pit closures in his mining constituency

Julie Ege

Julie Ege

Former Miss Norway and one-time Bond girl who monopolised the role of the exotic seductress in British comedies in the 1970s

Peta Levi

Peta Levi

Ardent campaigner for British design who helped to bring it into the modern age and provided a forum for young talent

Peter Hobbs

Innovator and businessman whose company Russell Hobbs pioneered the automatic electric kettle and coffee percolator

Ernest Shenton

Pioneer of one-hour photographic processing whose marketing initiatives included free films for returning customers

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Luciano Pavarotti

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Professor Bert Bolin

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R. B. Kitaj

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