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Jeptha Homer Wade (August 11, 1811 – August 9, 1890) was an American industrialist, philanthropist, and one of the founding members of Western Union Telegraph. Wade was born in Romulus, New York , the youngest of nine children of Jeptha and Sarah (Allen) Wade.
Lieutenant Colonel John W. Bowen suspected the trio were German spies, but Sadler eventually negotiated his release to join the British Eighth Army for the remainder of the Western Desert campaign. [6] In early 1944, Sadler was stationed in Darvel, Scotland, to train SAS members for the June 1944 Normandy landings. [7]
Patrick Barclay, 77, British sportswriter (The Times, The Sunday Telegraph) and television personality (Sunday Supplement). [261] Tony Bedeau, 45, British-born Grenadian footballer (Torquay United). [262] (death announced on this date) Gisela Bleibtreu-Ehrenberg, 95, German sociologist, ethnologist and sexologist (Tabu Homosexualität). [263]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Norman Sherry FRSL (6 July 1925 – 19 October 2016) was an English novelist, biographer, and educator who was best known for his three-volume biography of the British novelist Graham Greene.
As described in his Telegraph obituary, [1] Ray "remained a 'frantic partygoer' with a self-confessed weakness for drink and drugs. As his life fell apart, he slept on park benches, and during a failed attempt to launch a Fame -style dance school in Milan , shared a flat there with a porn actress.
Thomas Thompson Eckert (April 23, 1825 – October 20, 1910) was an officer in the U.S. Army, Chief of the War Department Telegraph Staff from 1862 to 1866, United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1866 to 1867 and an executive at Western Union.
Sometimes called the father of the modern obituary, [1] Massingberd was most revered for his work as obituaries editor for The Daily Telegraph of London from 1986 to 1994, during which time he drastically altered the style of the modern British obituary from a dry recital of biographical data to an often sly, witty, yet deadpan narrative on the ...