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People & Organisations
GB-2014-WSA-15447 · Person · 1933-2013

Service, Alastair Stanley Douglas, son of Douglas William Service (qv); b. 8 May 1933; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1951; The Queen’s Coll. Oxf., matric. 1953 but did not graduate; trainee Lazard Bros 1956-8; import and export trader McKinlay Watson & Co., 1958-64; publisher Seeley Service & Co., 1965-79; national committee member Birth Control Campaign, Population Concern 1973-2004, chmn. 1971-7; and campaigner various causes, incl. Abortion Law Reform 1963-7, Divorce Law Reform Union 1967-9, The Children’s Act 1975, and Public Lending Rights for Authors Act 1979; national committee member Victorian Soc. 1975-95; vice-chmn. Health Education Council 1976-87, Health Education Authority 1987-9; gen. sec. Family Planning Assn. 1980-9; chmn. Wessex Regional Health Authority 1993-4, Wiltshire Health Authority 1992-2000; co-founder Action for the River Kennet, 1991-2007, Hon. Sec. 1991-2; CBE 1995; MVO 2007; author various publications on birth control and architecture; librettist Sky Speaker 1999, The Angel Cantata 2003, Brunel’s Kingdom 2005; m. 1st, 28 Feb 1959 Louisa Ann Hemming OBE, publisher and magistrate, d. of Col. Henry Harold Hemming OBE MC; m. 2nd, 21 Feb 1992 Zandria Madeleine, d. of John Ernest Pauncefort, of Kent; d. 20 Mar. 2013.

GB-2014-WSA-15725 · Person · 1924-2006

Sinclair, John William, brother of Edward Anthony Sinclair (qv); b. 23 July 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (W); left July 1942; Peterhouse Camb., matric. 1942; Roy. Lancers 1943-7; CA (Scotland); d. Dec. 2006.

GB-2014-WSA-16198 · Person · 1942-2015

Stansbury, Peter McKnight, son of Harold Eugene Stansbury and Florence Lilian, d. of Henry Robertson of Muswell Hill; b. 3 Mar. 1942; adm. Apr. 1955 (W); left Dec. 1959; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1960; an art book publisher and bookseller; d. 15 Oct 2015.

Summers, Geoffrey, 1937-1970
GB-2014-WSA-16485 · Person · 1937-1970

Summers, Geoffrey, son of Gerald Summers of Hendon and Rachel, d. of A. David Bernstein of Battersea; b. 10 Aug. 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (W); left July 1954; adm. solicitor Apr. 1960; m. 2 Sept. 1961 Joan Caroline Martel, d. of Benjamin Levine of Birmingham; d. 21 Dec. 1970.

Topolski, Daniel, 1945-2015
GB-2014-WSA-16952 · Person · 1945-2015

Topolski, Daniel, son of Feliks Topolski, artist, and his first wife Marion, d. of William Mason Everall of Wolverhampton; b. 4 June 1945; adm. Sept. 1959 (W); left July 1963; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1964, rowed against Cambridge 1967-8, BA 1967, Dip. Soc. Anthrop. 1968, MA 1972; a BBC producer 1969-73; writer for The Observer and broadcaster 1973-93; rowed in world championships 1975 (silver medal), 1977 (gold medal); in four winning crews; coach of the Univ. of Oxf. Boat Club for fifteen Boat Races (1973-87), winning twelve, incl. a ten-win streak (1976-85); coach to the Great Britain Rowing squad at two Olympic Games (1980 & 1984); Hon. Fellow New Coll. Oxf.; author The Oxford Revival 1985, co-author True-Blue: The Oxford Boat Race Mutiny 1989; winner Travel Radio Programme of the Year 1994; m. 1998 Susan Gilmore, actress, d. of James Gilbert; d. 21 Feb. 2015.

GB-2014-WSA-16977 · Person · 1935-1999

Townend, Peter Robert Gascoigne, son of Roy George Townend, regional man. War Damage Commn., and Millicent Edna Amy Amelia, d. of Peter Gascoigne, musician, of Oxford; b. 8 Mar. 1935; adm. Sept. 1947 (W); left July 1950; at St Paul’s Sch. 1950-4; Christ’s Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1962; ed. Lookout magazine Malaga, Spain 1962-6; Roy. Coll. of Music 1964-7; freelance concert organist and conductor; European correspondent Vision, New York, USA 1966-9; acted at Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Italy 1969-70; a writer and photographer; author of Out of Focus 1971, Zoom 1972, Fisheye 1974, Triple Exposure 1976; m. 17 Apr. 1973 Hon. Katharine Patricia Smith, formerly wife of Ivan Moffat, Beverley Hills, CA, USA, and d. of William Henry Smith, 3rd Viscount Hambleden, chmn. W. H. Smith & Son; d. 6 June 1999.

GB-2014-WSA-17173 · Person · 1937-1991

Turner, William Douglass Jamieson, son of William Bambrough Turner, barrister, of Wimbledon, and Susan Miller Somers; b. 17 Feb. 1937; adm. Sept. 1950 (W); left July 1955; Allied Suppliers Ltd.; d. 12 July 1991.

GB-2014-WSA-17211 · Person · 1942-1995

Tyrrell, Timothy Robert, son of Timothy Martin Tyrrell (qv); b. 23 Sept. 1942; adm. May 1956 (W); left Dec. 1956; d. 1995.

GB-2014-WSA-20853 · Person · 1948-2022

Williams, Martin Gwynne, son of Sir David Innes Williams Kt. MD MChir FRCS, consult. urologist, the Hosp. for Sick Children, Great Ormond St., and Margaret Eileen, d. of Albert Victor Harding, farmer, of Cardiff, Glamorgan; b. 13 Mar. 1948; adm. Sept. 1961 (W); left Dec. 1965; Trin. Hall Camb., matric. 1966, BA 1969 (1st class hons Economics), MA; a chartered accountant, ACA 1972, FCA; Coopers & Lybrand 1969-81; Laurence Prust & Co. Ltd., later Credit Commercial de France (UK) Ltd., 1981-90; Advent Ltd., 1991-2000; Quester Capital Management Ltd., 2000-7; Spark Venture Management Ltd., 2007-13; d. 2022.

GB-2014-WSA-18448 · Person · 1934-1975

Winham, Godfrey Charles, son of Francis Bernard Winham, land agent, of Chelsea, and Gwendoline Dorothy Winham; b. 11 Dec. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (H), later (W); left July 1951; d. 27 Apr. 1975.