OBE 1982
Born 9 Dec. 1905; d of late Very Rev. Sir George Adam Smith, Principal of Aberdeen Univ. and Lilian, d of Sir George Buchanan, FRS; ...
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Born 20 Jan. 1910; d of Victor and Traute Gessner; m 1st, 1935, Victor von Klarwill (Austrian); 2nd, 1938, Peter Bally (Swiss); 3rd, 1943, George Adamson (British); ...
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MBE 1999
Born 4 Sept. 1924; d of Conrad Potter Aiken and Jessie McDonald; m 1st, 1945, Ronald George Brown (d 1955); one ...
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Born Toronto; d of Dr William Allan and Dr Isabell M. Allan, née Hutchinson; unmarried; died 7 Oct. 1956
dancer, actress, pianist, writer
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Born d of late Col Thomas Bromhead Butt, 79th Highlanders; m 1876, William Hutt Allhusen; died 29 July 1918
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Born St Petersburg, 21 July 1898; y d of late Prof. A. N. von Almedingen; died 5 March 1971
novelist and poet
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CBE 1976
Born 20 Jan. 1918; d of Isaac and Winifred Jones; m 1961, Frederick S. Andrews; died 12 Feb. 1983
Area Nursing Officer, Wolverhampton Area Health Authority, since ...
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Born St Louis, 4 April 1928; d of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter Johnson; one s; died 28 May 2014
writer, singer and actress
George Washington High Sch., San Francisco; California Labor Sch....
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DCMG 1994
Born 25 June 1926; d of Edward Curtis Anstee and Anne Adaliza (née Mills); died 25 Aug. 2016
lecturer, writer and consultant on UN issues and peacekeeping training; Adviser to: President and Government of Bolivia (...
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Hon. OBE 2003
Born Philadelphia, 21 April 1912; m 1948, Arnold Arnold (marr. diss.); one s; died 4 Jan. 2012
photographer and writer
Took a 6-week photography class with Alexei Brodovitch, at New Sch. for Social Research, NY, ...
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Born San Francisco, California, on Rincon Hill; o d of Thomas L. Horn and Gertrude Franklin, great-grandniece of Benjamin Franklin; m George H. Bowen Atherton, Menlo Park, California (decd); one ...
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DBE, 1918; Hon. DCL (Oxford, Durham); Hon. LLD (Glas., Man., Leeds, McGill (Canada) and Columbia (New York) Universities); FRCM
Born d of Sir James Henry Ramsay, 10th Bart of Bamff, Perthshire; ...
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Born London, 4 June 1879; sixth c of Augustus and Ann Attwell; m 1908, Harold Earnshaw (d 1937); one s one d (and one ...
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Born 30 Sept. 1926; d of late Norman and Grace Avery; m 1952, A. O. J. Cockshut; one d; died 31 Jan. 2016
writer
Dunottar Sch., Reigate
Chm., Children’s Books History Soc., ...
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Born 19 April 1874; d of late Rev. J. M. Bacon, Coldash, Newbury, scientific aeronaut; m 1929, County Alderman Thomas J. Foggitt (d 1934), Stoneybrough, Thirsk; died 22 Dec. 1949...
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Born 1858; d of Professor Baden-Powell, Langton Manor, Kent; died 2 June 1945
National Vice-President of the Girl Guides, Author of Girl Guides Handbook; on Council and Executive of Duty and DisciplineSociety; Vice-President of Westminster Division, British Red Cross, since ...
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Born 1865; 3rd d of Sir John Leslie, 1st Bt; m 1st, 1885, Lt-Col Josceline FitzRoy Bagot, MP (d 1913); one s three d; son was Sir Alan Desmond Bagot, 1st Bt (...
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Born Petersburg, Va; d of Milo Varnum Bailey and Emma Sprague; unmarried; died 6 July 1953
author
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DBE 2000; FRSL
Born 21 Nov. 1934; d of Richard Bainbridge and Winifred Baines; m 1954, Austin Davies (marr. diss.); one s one d; and one d by Alan Sharp; ...
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OBE 1965
Born 1911; d of Alexander Balfour and Ruth Macfarland Balfour; died 29 Aug. 1997
President, Contemporary Art Society, since 1984 (Chairman, 1976–82)
Wycombe Abbey Sch.; Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford (MA)...
