Obituaries
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Lady Mairi Bury: Chatelaine of Mount Stewart who met Hitler and Von Ribbentrop
The cast of characters in the life of Lady Mairi Bury, member of a remarkable aristocratic family, included both Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler, as well as a host of major figures in politics and high society.
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Hyman Bloom: Abstract expressionist pioneer who was eclipsed by Rothko and Pollock
Friday, 27 November 2009
By chance, two of the founding fathers of American abstract expressionism were born a few miles apart in Tsarist south Latvia in the pogrom-ridden years before the First World War. Both men were from Orthodox Jewish families, both fostered early ambitions to become rabbis, both were brought to the United States as children. There, however, similarities end. The older man, Mark Rothko, né Rothkowitz, was destined to number among the most famous names in 20th century American art, on a par with Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning. The other, Hyman Bloom, né Melamed, had faded into artistic obscurity long before his death at the age of 96.
Frank Branston: Journalist who exposed local corruption and became mayor of Bedford
Friday, 27 November 2009
Frank Branston was a brilliant investigative journalist, specialising in local government issues in Bedford and Bedfordshire. He founded his own newspaper, Bedford on Sunday (later Bedfordshire on Sunday), and became Bedford's first directly elected mayor in 2002. He also wrote two novels.
George Miller-Kurakin: Anti-communist campaigner who inspired Conservative activists
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Intellectual and visionary, liberal and anti-Communist, George Miller inspired a generation of Conservative activists in the 1980s, when the Soviet Union seemed impregnable. His operations were so extensive that few of his associates knew the full picture.
Mark Glazebrook: Curator, critic, teacher and dealer
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Mark Glazebrook was a somewhat unlikely person to become a figure so integral to the art world.
Jeanne-Claude: Artist celebrated with her husband Christo for the pair's large-scale public artworks
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Jeanne-Claude was the flamboyant half of the symbiotic artistic partnership known as "Christo and Jeanne-Claude".
Stanley Robertson: Storyteller and folk singer who chronicled Scots Traveller history
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Stanley Robertson knew a thing or two about triumphing over adversity and still more about open-handedness. He was one of Scotland's priceless storytellers and singers. He told stories from the common treasury, nudging tales from the past into the present with contemporary touches that never compromised the integrity of the narrative. He sang, and what he sang, because every song has its time and purpose, were the auld traditional ballads through to local doggerel verse, the stuff once viewed as being as throwaway as chip paper. He was also a wonderful historian of Scots Traveller and Aberdonian working-class history – not in a hugely scholastic way, more by way of finding academe in memories of working-class life, human interest in the everyday. He told life histories in books such as his two volumes of Fish-hooses: Tales from an Aberdeen Filleter, illustrated by Eric Ritchie.
Yang Xianyi: Translator who fell foul of authority during the Cultural Revolution
Wednesday, 25 November 2009
Yang Xianyi, who has died in Beijing aged 93, was a distinguished literary translator remarkable for the range of his work.
Lino Lacedelli: Mountaineer whose ascent of K2 in 1954 was shrouded in controversy
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Lino Lacedelli's story is one more proof of the often-quoted 15th century proverb "Truth will out". It is a story of triumph and of a truth concealed for more than 50 years – to be at last revealed.
Elisabeth Söderström: Soprano admired in Britain for her interpretations of Richard Strauss
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
The Swedish soprano Elisabeth Söderström had a career, at home and internationally, that lasted over 40 years. Without forcing her lyrical voice she managed to sing a wide repertory that included many roles outside that category.
Ali Kordan: Former Iranian Interior Minister
Tuesday, 24 November 2009
Ali Kordan, who died of heart failure on 22 November aged 51, was a former Iranian Interior Minister who was dismissed after being accused of faking a law degree from Oxford.
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