MBE 1999
Born 4 Sept. 1924; d of Conrad Potter Aiken and Jessie McDonald; m 1st, 1945, Ronald George Brown (d 1955); one ...
MBE 1999
Born 4 Sept. 1924; d of Conrad Potter Aiken and Jessie McDonald; m 1st, 1945, Ronald George Brown (d 1955); one ...
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....
Born d of Thomas Ashton of Hyde and Manchester; m 1889, Rt Hon. James, 1st Viscount Bryce, of Dechmont; no c; died 27 Dec. 1939...
DPhil; FBA 2002
Born 11 Feb. 1937; d of Sir Trevor Evans, CBE and Margaret (née Gribbin); m 1962, David Edgeworth Butler (Sir David Butler, CBE, FBA); two s...
DBE 1999 (CBE 1990); FRSL 1983
writer
Born Sydenham, 7 July 1850; 10th c of Robert von Glehn; m 1872, Rt Hon. Mandell Creighton, Bishop of London (d 1901); three s four d; died 15 April 1936...
OBE 1992
Born 25 Aug. 1923; d of Alexander Halliday and Dorothy Eveline Millard; m 1946, Sir Alastair MacTavish Dunnett (d 1998); two ...
OBE 2004
Born 21 July 1944; d of Jeremy and Alice Emecheta; m 1960, Sylvester Onwordi; two s three d ; died 25 Jan. 2017
writer and lecturer, since 1972...
concert organist; Organist, St Lawrence Jewry-next-Guildhall, EC2, since 1985
Born 1820; d of John Savile Faucit and Mrs Faucit, a contemporary (actress) of the Kembles; m 1851, Sir Theodore Martin, KCB, KCVO; died 31 Oct. 1898
celebrated actress (retired in ...
FRSL
writer, since 1966
CBE 1965
soprano; Professor of Singing and Consultant, Royal College of Music, 1985–93; Director of Singing Studies, Britten-Pears School, Aldeburgh, 1986
opera, concert and recital singer; Professor, Royal Academy of Music, 1997–2011
FRSL
Born 7 May 1932; d of Louis Joseph and Florence Joseph (née Cotton); m 1961, Charles Anthony Coles (d 1985); one s...
Born Berkeley, California 21 Oct. 1929; d of Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Kroeber; m 1953, Charles A. Le Guin; one s two d ; died...
writer; Professor of English, Cornell University, 1976–2006, then Professor Emerita
OBE 2009
biographer and cultural historian
OBE 1990
freelance concert and opera singer (soprano), since 1965; vocal teacher, coach, writer and lecturer
PhD; FBA 2011
Goldsmiths’ Professor of English Literature, University of Oxford, since 2010; Fellow, New College, Oxford, since 2010