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Sir Bobby Charlton CBE, 86, English footballer (Manchester United, national team) and manager (Preston North End), world champion . [267] Carroll Coates, 94, British-American songwriter, composer and lyricist. [268] Bill Gates, 79, English footballer (Middlesbrough). [269] 22 October – Dave Courtney, 64, English self-proclaimed gangster.
Carl Louis "Charles" Breeden (10 February 1891 – 2 November 1951) was an English automotive industry engineer and entrepreneur and a first-class cricketer. [1] He was born in Moseley, Birmingham and died at Claverdon, Warwickshire.
Victor Henry Douglas Cannings (3 April 1919 – 27 October 2016) was an English cricketer, cricket coach and colonial police officer.Born in Hampshire in April 1919, Cannings joined the Palestine Police Force in 1938 and spent World War II in its service.
The Collegiate Church of St Mary is a Church of England parish church in Warwick, Warwickshire, England. It is in the centre of the town just east of the market place. It is Grade I listed, and a member of the Major Churches Network. The church has the status of collegiate church as it had a college of secular canons. In governance and ...
Davies was the eldest son of David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies, and Ruth Dugdale, daughter of William Marshall Dugdale. He succeeded in the barony at the age of three after his father was killed in the Second World War. He was educated at Eton and King's College, Cambridge, and later became a chartered engineer.
Charles Walton was born 12 May 1870 [3] to Charles and Emma Walton. [4] [5] An agricultural worker, he had lived in Lower Quinton all his life. [6]He was a widower who shared a small cottage, 15 Lower Quinton, with his 33-year-old niece Edith Isabel Walton, whom he had adopted thirty years previously upon the death of her mother. [7]
A Pacifist's War (Hogarth Press, 1978) by Frances Partridge is an account of Ralph and Frances' life as pacifists during World War II, when Ralph refused to join the Home Guard, finally being recognised as a conscientious objector by the Appellate Tribunal. [12]
Daw Mill mined a five-metre thick section of the Warwickshire Coalfield (known as the Warwickshire Thick) in the north of the county. It was owned and operated by UK Coal and in 2008 employed 680 people. [1] The two shafts that served Daw Mill were first sunk between 1956 and 1959, and 1969 and 1971 respectively.
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