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Winifred Foley, the daughter of Charles Mason, a coal miner and his Welsh wife Margaret, was born in Brierley, Gloucestershire.Her book, A Child in the Forest (1974), mainly an account of her childhood in the Forest of Dean, also includes her experiences as an adolescent domestic servant in London and elsewhere, up to the point where she meets her future husband, Sydney (died 1998), at an anti ...
Beverley Alfred Dovey (24 October 1938 – 12 January 2024) was an English rugby union international. [1]Born in the Forest of Dean, Dovey was a prop and made his debut for Lydney while a Lydney Grammar student.
He was born in the village of Parkend in The Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, [1] the son of Thomas Carlyle Deakin and Harriet Herries Deakin. His grandfather and his father had both been J.P.s and, at different times, managers of Parkend Colliery.
Cyril Edwin Hart OBE (22 March 1913 – 9 May 2009) was an English forestry expert, author, and historian.. He was appointed as one of the four verderers of the Forest of Dean in 1952, and was the longest serving Senior Verderer of Verderer's Court, from 1962 until his death in 2009.
From there he worked as a land agent at Hursley Park from 1905 to 1907, before becoming deputy–surveyor for the Forest of Dean until 1914, during which time he was also a justice of the peace for Gloucestershire. [1] After 1914 he was deputy-surveyor for the New Forest and the Forest of Bere, and was made an OBE in the 1918 Birthday Honours.
The Forest of Dean is a geographical, historical and cultural region in the western part of the county of Gloucestershire, England. It forms a roughly triangular plateau bounded by the River Wye to the west and northwest, Herefordshire to the north, the River Severn to the south, and the City of Gloucester to the east.
The son of a miner, Reg Ward was born on 5 October 1927 in the Forest of Dean and educated at East Dean Grammar School, Cinderford, Gloucestershire. [4]While lecturing on radar equipment as a young RAF pilot, he was encouraged to apply for University – the first in his family to do so.
This is a list of notable people buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park cemetery in Glendale, California. The cemetery was founded in 1906 and has been used for many funerals of film stars and other celebrities since then.