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After leaving school, Henley joined the London company of funeral directors James H. Kenyon Ltd in 1941. Established in 1880, J. H. Kenyon Ltd were the undertakers to the Royal Household, and had in that role assisted in arranging the funerals of many members of the Royal Family. After training in all theoretical and practical aspects of ...
Another London firm, William Garstin, not J H Kenyon, assisted with the funeral arrangements for King George V. [4] In 1991, the royal undertaking warrant passed to Leverton & Sons, a 200-year-old family owned and operated firm of funeral directors. [5] Leverton & Sons was established in St Pancras in 1763 by Devonshire carpenter John Leverton.
J. H. Kenyon Ltd, of Paddington, London, the funeral directors to the Royal Household since 1928, were tasked with preparing Churchill's remains for the funeral. Desmond Henley, the company's chief embalmer, went to Churchill's Hyde Park Gate home to oversee the process. [29] Churchill's body was embalmed in the same room where he had died.
Her only son, David William Desmond (b. 1960), from her first marriage, is a psychologist in New York. She was widowed in 2000 when her second husband, lawyer John Joseph Barry , died.
Leverton & Sons won a prize at the Good Funeral Awards in 2013 for introducing an environmentally-friendly electric-powered hearse. [10] In 2014 Leverton & Sons were featured in an episode of the BBC's The One Show, filmed in November 2013. [3] In July 2022 the firm acquired the first Nissan Leaf electric-powered hearse.
Des Traynor was born James Desmond Traynor on 3 June 1931 in Dublin. His parents were John Joseph and Kathleen Traynor (née O'Connor) who lived at 39 Grand Canal Street, Dublin. His father was a motor driver. Traynor attended the Christian Brothers School on Westland Row, and later St Mary's College, Rathmines.
Actor Demond Wilson, who starred alongside comedian Redd Foxx in the iconic American show "Sanford & Son" looks back on his time working with Lear and the change the show made to American culture.
The execution of the 7th Earl of Desmond provoked an immediate and violent reaction. The dead earl’s elder sons ‘raised their standards and drew their swords, resolved to avenge their father’s murder’. James's younger brother, Gerald, laid waste a great deal in Leith and Munster in revenge for his father. [1]