Birthday of Colin Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
Birthday of Colin Peter Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
Birthday of Colin Peter Sydenham (13-xii-1937)
Death Anniversary for Thomas Charles Donald Ricketts (03-vii-1896 15-xii-1979) See Sunnucks
We remember Thomas Dawson who passed away on Sunday, December 16th, 1951. He was also known by the pseudonym T. Dyke Robinson (we are looking for a primary source for this) Thomas Rayner Dawson was born on Thursday, November 28th 1889 in Leeds, Yorkshire to Henry and Jane Dawson (née Rayner). The early history of … Continue reading Death Anniversary of Thomas Dawson (28-xi-1889 16-xii-1951)
We remember Harold Lommer who passed away on December 17th, 1980. Harold Maurice Lommer was born on Friday, November 18th 1904 in Islington, London to German parents. Curiously his birth entry was missing from the original record and has been inserted manually as an after-thought. Anyone know the reason for this? He left England aged … Continue reading Death Anniversary for Harold Lommer (18-xi-1904 17-xii-1980)
Death Anniversary of Peter Fairburn Copping (12-x-1922 18-xii-1989)
BCN remembers Mike Bent who passed away on Tuesday, December 28th 2004. Charles Michael Bent was born on Thursday, 27th of November 1919 and in that year Charles was the fifth most popular boy's name. He was born in Portsmouth, Hampshire. In 1939 he was living at 5, Ashburton Road, Gosport with his mother Eileen … Continue reading Death Anniversary of Charles (Mike) Bent (27-xi-1919 28-xii-2004)
We remember Edith Baird (née Winter-Wood) Edith Elina Helen Winter-Wood was born, probably in 1859*, to Thomas Winter-Wood, a writer and poet, and Eliza Ann (née Sole) Winter-Wood in Boulogne, France. (*Despite 22nd February 1859 appearing in Wikipedia we are unable to locate a primary source for this date. Contemporary secondary sources always just gave … Continue reading Death Anniversary for Edith Baird (née Winter-Wood) (??-??-1859 01-ii-1924)
Death Anniversary of Sir Jeremy Morse, (10-xii-1928 04-ii-2016)
Birthday of IM Roderick McIntosh McKay (11-ii-1952)
Birthday of Michael Lipton (13-ii-1937) The Two Move Chess Problem : Tradition and Development Chess Problems : Introduction to an Art