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  1. I couldn't find a page or references to the fine biographer Claire Tomalin, who will be ninety next June, and is married to Michael Frayn. Her most recent book is a biography of the young HG Wells (published last year). All her previous biographies of authors have taken in their whole lives, and so I wondered whether that was the original plan for this book, and abandoned due to failing powers/ill health of Tomalin.

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  2. The death of the Queen reminds me of the once ubiquitous Sarah Bradford, the royal biographer, whose most recent television appearances (none that I have seen post the death of the Queen), have seen her wearing a hat, which makes one wonder about cancer. I read that she is now 84; would she be a big enough name for DL? I'm sure the Times and Telegraph would carry obituaries, and she is also Viscountess Bangor, for what that's worth.

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  3. Perhaps they're not sufficiently well known outside the UK, but I'm sure the fine actors below would all merit obituaries and so I'm surprised they have been omitted from the list in the last couple of years:

    Dame Joan Plowright (Lady OIivier)

    Joss Ackland

    Colin Jeavons 

    Peter Cellier

    John Nettleton

    Michael Jayston

    Peter Bowles

    Doreen Mantle

     


  4. I have been doing some more thinking about potential names:

    From the world of British politics:

    Lord Robert Armstrong (ex UK Cabinet Secretary)

    Lady Marcia Falkender (former advisor to PM Harold Wilson) [86]

    Joe Haines [90]

    Bernard Ingham (Thatcher's press secretary) [86]

    Lord Norman Tebbit (Thatcher cabinet minister) [84

    Lord Kenneth Baker (Ditto) [84]

    Lord Nigel Lawson (Chancellor of the Exchequer)

    Other:

    Sir Lenox Hewitt (Australian senior public servant, father of Blair cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt) [now 101]

    Tom Hughes (Australian attorney general in the Gorton government) [95]

     

    By 2020 it may, sadly, be time to consider some British theatrical dames:

    Patricia Routledge

     

     

     


  5. I have been doing some more thinking about potential names:

    From the world of British politics:

    Lord Robert Armstrong (ex UK Cabinet Secretary) [91] (age at time of writing)

    Lady Marcia Falkender (former advisor to PM Harold Wilson) [86]

    Joe Haines [90]

    Bernard Ingham (Thatcher's press secretary) [86]

    Lord Norman Tebbit (Thatcher cabinet minister) [84]

    Lord Kenneth Baker (Ditto) [84]

    Lord Nigel Lawson (Chancellor of the Exchequer) [86]

    Other:

    Sir Lenox Hewitt (Australian senior public servant, father of Blair cabinet minister Patricia Hewitt) [now 101]

    Tom Hughes, QC (Australian attorney general in the Gorton government) [95]

     

    In light of June Whitfield's demise in Dec. 2018, it occurs to me that it may, sadly, be time to consider some British theatrical dames- (I have already mentioned Angela Lansbury and Joan Plowright):

    Patricia Routledge [89]

    The 1934 crowd

    Judi Dench

    Maggie Smith

    Eileen Atkins

     

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  6. Dear All,

    New to this forum- some thoughts below:

    HRH Duke of Edinburgh

    Billy Connolly 

    Terrance Dicks (former script editor on Doctor Who)

    Dame Joan Plowright (Lady Olivier)

    Lady Pamela Hicks 

    Bob Hawke

    Dame Angela Lansbury

    Lady Avon (Clarissa Eden)

    Lord Douglas Hurd

    Jill Knight

    Barry Cryer

    Nicholas Parsons

     

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