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Timothy Tyson, a childhood friend of Teel's younger son who was living in Oxford during those years, earned a doctorate and became an historian. He published Blood Done Sign My Name (2004) about the killing of Marrow, the trial, and their effects on Oxford, North Carolina and the civil rights movement. It recounted the events of Marrow's ...
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John Simopoulos (12 June 1923 – 4 March 2015) was a philosopher and fellow of St. Catherine's College, Oxford. [1] [2] Simopoulos was born in Vienna, the son of Greek diplomat Charalambos Simopoulos, who was serving there. His father was also at one time ambassador to the Court of St James's in London. [1] [3]
John Lossing Buck (27 November 1890 – 27 September 1975, [1] [2] adopted the Chinese name 卜凱) was an American agricultural economist [3] specializing in the rural economy of China.
In the mid 19th century, the graveyards of the six parishes in central Oxford became full, so Merton College made some of its land available to form the cemetery in 1847. The cemetery was established along with Osney Cemetery and St Sepulchre's Cemetery. [1] In 1855, new burials were forbidden at all Oxford city churches, apart from in existing ...
Kitson died at home in Yelverton, Devon on 2 January 2024, at the age of 97. [ 37 ] [ 38 ] Writing on his death, the Irish News described Kitson as a hate figure, and quoted the late SDLP founder Paddy Devlin as saying Kitson "probably did more than any other individual to sour relations between the Catholic community and the security forces."
Quite often the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
George Henry Hubert Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood (7 February 1923 – 11 July 2011), styled The Honourable George Lascelles before 1929 and Viscount Lascelles between 1929 and 1947, was a British classical music administrator and author, and a member of the extended British Royal Family, as a maternal grandson of King George V and Queen Mary, and thus a first-cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.