Obituaries
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Brian Godfrey: Welsh international footballer who became a hard-bitten manager
The Welsh international Brian Godfrey was a footballer both tough and clever, and as a manager he was a shrewd, hard-bitten operator, albeit not at the rarefied level widely envisaged for him when he took his first managerial job in the mid-1970s.
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Cy Grant: Pioneer for black British actors
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Cy Grant has died after a brief illness at the age of 90. He was the first black person to appear regularly on British factual television.
Sir Allen McClay: Philanthropist and entrepreneur whose Ulster pharmacy company thrived throughout the Troubles
Friday, 26 February 2010
Sir Allen McClay liked to describe himself as "one of the world's worst pharmacists", yet the world-leading pharmaceutical and biotech companies he created made him the most successful businessman Northern Ireland has yet produced and the most significant philanthropist the province has known.
Bernard An Nail: Publisher and historian who championed Britanny's language and culture
Friday, 26 February 2010
Few Bretons have devoted their lives to promoting their culture with the flair and dogged determination shown by Bernard Le Nail.
Aaron Schroeder: Songwriter who wrote for Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Nat 'King' Cole
Friday, 26 February 2010
The New York publisher and songwriter Aaron Schroeder was one of the key figures around the Brill Building in the 1950s and 1960s. He was a songwriter who preferred to collaborate with others, especially in improving the commerciality of a promising song. Several of his 300 published compositions were recorded by Elvis Presley, including the multi-million seller "It's Now or Never" (1960). He liked to say, not entirely in jest, "I don't read music – that's why I make so much money."
Sir Ian Brownlie: International lawyer who fought for human rights and civil liberties
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Sir Ian Brownlie QC, who died in a car accident in Egypt where he was on holiday, was an international lawyer who was as successful in practise as he was in academia.
Clara Györgyey: Writer and translator who specialised in the theatre
Thursday, 25 February 2010
The 1956 Hungarian emigration to the West produced a number of eminent scientists and a few talented writers and translators. Among them was Clara Györgyey, a young woman with a passion for the theatre and an interest in organising literary activities, a very hard task indeed when dealing with such quarrelsome and self-centred customers as writers.
Malcolm Vaughan: Singer who fell foul of the BBC but sold half a million records as a result
Thursday, 25 February 2010
In October 1956, Malcolm Vaughan was due to appear on BBC TV's Off The Record to promote his new release, "St. Therese Of The Roses".
General Alexander Haig
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Your obituary of General Alexander Haig (23 February) omits his role in the Israeli invasion of the Lebanon in June 1982, writes Edward Pearce. In their book Israel's Lebanon War Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Ya'ari describe Ariel Sharon's call upon the Secretary of State in May. He wanted assent for a full-dress invasion and "his remarks were studded with with innuendos about two objectives that the Israeli Cabinet had not approved for the war, the Syrian garrison in Lebanon and the city of Beirut."
Arthur McIntyre
Thursday, 25 February 2010
Your obituary of Arthur McIntyre (8 February) reminded me of an episode I witnessed during Surrey's ascendancy in cricket in the 1950s when Kent still played at Blackheath, writes Andrew Belsey. Kent were batting poorly against Surrey and the young Colin Cowdrey was at the crease.
Sir Trevor Lloyd-Hughes: Harold Wilson's press secretary who believed passionately in the impartiality of the job
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
Trevor Lloyd-Hughes was the Prime Minister's influential press secretary from 1964 to 1969. He once recounted to me how he got the job, and the circumstances speak volumes. He had been the lobby correspondent of the Liverpool Daily Post for 14 years, and had written political columns for the Sunday Express anonymously, and had also, under his own name, established himself as a writer on wines – he was later to become a driving force in the Circle of Wine Writers.
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