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Brigadier Hugo Ironside
Officer who tunnelled out of a PoW camp and later helped construct a glider in Colditz .
04 Dec 2008
Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal
Gambler with Mafia ties who survived an assassination attempt and was immortalised in the film Casino.
04 Dec 2008
George Money
'Bush banker’ who braved dangerous and primitive conditions to expand the Barclays network.
04 Dec 2008
Professor Sir Hugh Laddie
High Court judge who resigned from the bench on the ground that the job was 'unstimulating’ .
03 Dec 2008
Robert Tronson
Flamboyant television director whose programmes included Rumpole, Bergerac and Hetty Wainthropp .
03 Dec 2008
Odetta
Odetta, who died on December 2 aged 77, was one of the most influential singers to emerge during the renaissance of American folk music in the 1950s.
03 Dec 2008
Lord Rees
Pugnacious Chief Secretary to the Treasury who drove down public spending in the 1980s.
02 Dec 2008
Rob Partridge
Music PR who worked with a generation of pop stars and helped stage Bob Marley's One Love concert.
02 Dec 2008
Air Vice-Marshal John Powell
Staff officer at Cranwell who became an inspirational teacher to generations of Royal Air Force cadets.
02 Dec 2008
Christel Goltz
German soprano whose 'sensual' performances as Salome enthralled critics and audiences for a quarter of a century.
01 Dec 2008
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Why we all need fairy tales
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Dudley Savage
Organist whose BBC Radio programme was so popular that 43,000 complained when it was axed
29 Nov 2008
William Gibson
Playwright whose successes included the post-war hits The Miracle Worker and Two for the Seesaw
28 Nov 2008
Eppie Buist
Champion dog breeder who as a child terrorised her nannies and went gliding aged 96
29 Nov 2008
Edmund Townshend
Telegraph war correspondent at the Battle of Arnhem who was shot down on his first flight in an aircraft .
27 Nov 2008
Professor John North
Scholar who wrote about the development of notions of time, Chaucer, Stonehenge and Holbein’s Ambassadors .
27 Nov 2008
Stella Hillier
Stella Hillier was a BBC radio producer who dragged Dylan Thomas from the pub to finish Under Milk Wood.
26 Nov 2008
Sir Nicholas Redmayne, Bt
Stockbroker who helped to reposition Kleinwort Benson as a leading investment bank in the 1980s
26 Nov 2008
Major-General Donald Isles
Major-General Donald Isles was head of the Army’s weapons division who fought in Italy and served in Palestine, Kenya and Cyprus .
26 Nov 2008
Julian Chrysostomides
Julian Chrysostomides was a scholar who chose exile from her native Constantinople and won the admiration of her tutor, Iris Murdoch .
26 Nov 2008
Nick Mills
Nick Mills was a vet who worked as a sex therapist for racehorses, devised a skateboard for a tortoise and invented a fish attractor.
26 Nov 2008
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