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Margi Levy obituary
George Osborne's babysitter, a tenacious campaigner against the slums of 1970s Paddington and co-author of an internationally respected text on information management: these are merely the headlines of...
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Kathleen Watkins obituary
Formidable curator of the Penwith Gallery in St IvesAt the centre of any account of modern art in St Ives is the curious and colourful history of the Penwith Society of Arts in Cornwall. And at the...
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Bryan Boswood obituary
My friend Bryan Boswood, who has died aged 80, was a group analyst and psychotherapist with a rare combination of gifts in practice, teaching and organisational leadership. His contribution as a...
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Marshall Berman obituary
Author and academic who wrote insightfully on Marx, modernism and his native New YorkMarshall Berman, who has died of a heart attack aged 72, was an upper west side New York radical intellectual. An...
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Letter: Bill Wallis relished his role as Harold Wilson
Most actors, when faced with food onstage, are cautious. To the audience's exasperation, they prod, they toy, they rearrange. Bill Wallis didn't. I was in the cast of Mrs Wilson's Diary (Theatre Royal...
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Sir John Tavener obituary
Leading composer who drew upon his faith to create works of universal appealFor the composer John Tavener, who has died aged 69, creativity sprang from religious faith. Many of his works held an appeal...
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Sir John Tavener began composing and studying the piano at an early age, and gained a music scholarship to Highgate school, north London
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Eddie McGrady obituary
SDLP stalwart who strove for peace in Northern IrelandEddie McGrady, the former Social Democratic and Labour MP for South Down, has died aged 78. In the 1987 general election, McGrady seized the...
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Tony King obituary
My brother, Tony King, has died aged 72. With hindsight, the main strands of Tony's life were evident by his late teens. Following on from Sunday school, he developed a strong Methodist faith which sat...
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Susan May obituary
Convicted of murdering her aunt, she continued to protest her innocence after serving a life sentenceSusan May, who has died of cancer aged 68, had the unwanted distinction of becoming the first...
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WS Pierpoint obituary
My father, WS Pierpoint (known as Stan), who has died aged 83, joined Rothamsted Experimental Station, the agricultural research institution in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, in 1954 to work under Norman...
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John Playfair obituary
My father, Professor John Playfair, who has died aged 82, spent most of his working life as a lecturer and professor of immunology at the Middlesex hospital (later University College hospital), where...
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Grigor McClelland obituary
Founder of Manchester Business School who successfully combined commerce with social responsibility and reformGrigor McClelland, who has died aged 91, brought sturdy Quaker virtues to business...
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Austin John Marshall obituary
Record producer and graphic artist who played a pivotal role in the UK folk music scene in the 1960s and 70sAustin John Marshall, who has died aged 76, was one of the most colourful, inventive and...
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Srdja Popovic obituary
Lawyer who sought a democratic future for Serbia through the admission of past wrongsThe Serbian civil rights lawyer and campaigner Srdja Popovic, who has died aged 76, believed passionately in legal...
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Letter: Anthony Caro's outrage over 'interesting' art
As a student at St Martin's School of Art in the late 1960s, I often experienced the kindly but combative tutorial style of Anthony Caro. When Richard Long said that he had been on a walk and thought...
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Vi Hughes obituary
A love of literature and culture, and a passion for education and social justice, infused the life of my mother, Vi Hughes, who has died aged 91. From her childhood in working-class Edinburgh in the...
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Letter: James Sillavan's Bollywood caper
I met James Sillavan, probably in the late 1980s, when he came to a screening at the Cinema Museum in Kennington. He was keen that I attend his monthly breakfasts at Tearooms des Artistes near Lavender...
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Sir John Tavener, 1944-2013: an appreciation
Sir John Tavener, who died last week, wrote the sort of choral pieces that all composers wish they'd writtenSir John Tavener was one of those rare composers whose music accessed people in all walks of...
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Glafcos Clerides obituary
Greek Cypriot statesman who worked towards a settlement for the divided island of CyprusCyprus is a speck of a nation with a population of barely one million. But geography, history and chance have...
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