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Huckle, Bryan George, 1918-2003

  • GB-2014-WSA-09675
  • Person
  • 1918-2003

Huckle, Bryan George, son of George Edward William Huckle, asst gen. man. Westminster Bank, and Ethel Adelaide Louise, d. of Thomas James of Brondesbury; b. 10 Mar. 1918; adm. May 1932 (B); left Apr. 1935; RAPC in WW2; a sen. bank officer NatWest Bank; d. 16 Jan. 2003.

Howard, Anthony Michell, 1934-2010

  • GB-2014-WSA-09621
  • Person
  • 1934-2010

Howard, Anthony Michell, son of Rev. Canon William Guy Howard, Vicar of Epsom, Surrey, and Janet Rymer, d. of Edwin Hogg of Cricklewood; b. 12 Feb. 1934; adm. Sept. 1946 (B); left July 1952; Ch. Ch. Oxf., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1960; Pres. Oxford Union, Trinity 1955; called to the Bar, Inner Temple 1956, but did not practise; political correspondent, Reynolds News 1958-9; editorial staff, Manchester Guardian 1959-61; political correspondent, New Statesman 1961-4; Whitehall correspondent, The Sunday Times 1965; Washington correspondent, The Observer 1966-9; asst. ed., New Statesman 1970-2, ed. 1972-8; ed., The Listener 1979-81; dep. ed., The Observer 1981-8; presenter and reporter, Sky News and BBC TV 1989-92; chief political book reviewer, The Sunday Times 1990-2004; obituaries ed., The Times 1993-99, weekly columnist 1999-2005; hon. LLD Nottingham 2001, hon DLitt Leicester 2003; m. 1965 Carol Anne Gaynor; d. 1 Dec. 2010.

Horton, Richard John, 1934-2016

  • GB-2014-WSA-09576
  • Person
  • 1934-2016

Horton, Richard John, son of John Corbett Horton (qv); b. 23 Jan. 1934; adm. Sept. 1947 (B); left July 1952; Gonville & Caius Coll. Camb., matric. 1954, BA 1957, MA 1967; 2nd Lieut. Roy. West Kent Regt. July 1953, seconded KAR, served Kenya and Uganda 1953-4, Lieut. (TA) 1955; internat. marketing man. Whitbread & Co. 1967-90; m. Jennifer Anne Chatters, teacher, d. of Arthur Edward George Chatters, electrical engineer; d. 25 Jan. 2016.

Hopkyns, John Creasey, 1915-2008

  • GB-2014-WSA-09520
  • Person
  • 1915-2008

Hopkyns, John Creasey, son of John Wykeham Hopkins (qv); b. 15 July 1915; adm. Apr. 1929 (B); left Apr. 1933; Queens Coll. Oxf., matric. 1933, BA 1937, MA 1940; Middx Hosp. Med. Sch., BM BCh 1940; MRCP 1947, MAmCP 1958; FRCP (Canada) 1972; Surg.-Lieut. RNVR 1941, Surg.-Lieut.-Cdr RCNR 1957; assoc. Clinical Prof. of Medicine, Univ. of Alberta, Canada, Emeritus Prof. 1980; Fellow American Geriatrics Soc. 1969; Medical Examiner (Coroner) for Province of Alberta 1977; m. 22 Nov. 1941 Joan Edith, d. of Rev. Frederick Yates, Rector of Gt Wigborough, Essex; d. 12 Dec. 2008.

Holmes, Wilbur Thomas, 1917-1985

  • GB-2014-WSA-09462
  • Person
  • 1917-1985

Holmes, Wilbur Thomas, son of Henry Alfred Holmes, Prof. of Romance Languages City Coll. of New York, and Lula Ella, d. of Samuel Thomas of Baltimore, USA; b. 27 Jan. 1917; adm. Sept. 1932 (B); left July 1933; Wesleyan Univ. Conn., USA, BA 1938; Columbia Univ. NY, MA 1939; USNR in WW2 (Lieut.); a schoolmaster in Louisiana; m. Aug. 1940 Lois Husted of Waterbury, Conn., USA; d. 3 Oct. 1985.

Hiscox, Peter Hugh, 1920-1995

  • GB-2014-WSA-09303
  • Person
  • 1920-1995

Hiscox, Peter Hugh, brother of Wilfrid Guy Hiscox (qv); b. 26 June 1920; adm. May 1934 (B); left July 1938; RASC 1939-45 (Lieut.); The Queen's Regt (short service commission), Capt. Nov. 1947; d. Apr. 1995.

Herrmann, Luke John, 1932-2016

  • GB-2014-WSA-09125
  • Person
  • 1932-2016

Herrmann, Luke John, brother of Frank Curt Alfons Herrmann (qv); b. 9 Mar. 1932; adm. Sept. 1945 (B); left Dec. 1950; New Coll. Oxf., matric. 1952, BA 1955, MA 1959; asst. ed. Illustrated London News 1955-8; asst. Keeper of Western Art, Ashmolean Museum, 1958-67; Paul Mellon lecturer in History of British Art, Univ. of Leicester, 1967-70, sen. lecturer in the History of Art 1970-3, Prof. 1973-87, Prof. Emeritus 1987; FSA 1975; author, Ruskin and Turner 1968, British Landscape Painting of the 18th Century 1973, Turner 1975, Paul and Thomas Sandby 1986; co-author, Catalogue of the Drawings by James Hakewill in the British Sch. at Rome Library 1992, and Nineteenth Century British Painting 2000; co-editor, Oxford Companion to Turner 2001; hon. editor, Walpole Society 1993-2003; m. 27 Feb. 1965 Georgina Herrmann OBE DPhil FBA FSA, Reader in Archaeology of Western Asia, UCL, d. of Maj. John Walker Thompson RA, of Basingstoke, Hants; d. 9 Sept. 2016.

Herrmann, Frank Curt Alfons, 1927-2017

  • GB-2014-WSA-09124
  • Person
  • 1927-2017

Herrmann, Frank Curt Alfons, son of Frederick Heinrich Joseph Herrmann, architect, of Hampstead, and Gabriele Emily Anniela, d. of Alfons Jaffé of Boar’s Hill, Oxford; b. 18 May 1927; adm. May 1940 (B); left July 1945; Magdalen Coll. Oxf., matric. 1945 but did not graduate; Faber & Faber, publishers, 1947; dir. Methuens 1959, assoc. Book Publishers 1964; man. dir. Marshall Morgan & Scott, chmn. Ward Lock & Hudsons Bookshops; FSA 1975; dir. Sotheby’s (overseas ops. ) 1980-2; founder and dir. Bloomsbury Book Auctions 1983-2005; author, The Giant Alexander 1964, and other children’s books, Sotheby’s: Portrait of an Auction House 1980, The English as Collectors: a documentary sourcebook 1972, and Low Profile: A Life in the World of Books (autobiog. ) 2002; ed., Travellers Tales 1999, and More Tales from the Travellers 2005; donated res. files to Wallace Collection 2014; m. 16 Oct. 1954 Patricia Herrmann OBE, d. of Philip Robinson of Hampstead; d. 23 Apr. 2017.

Herbert, Veryan, 1930-2014

  • GB-2014-WSA-09111
  • Person
  • 1930-2014

Herbert, Veryan, son of Aubrey Herbert (qv); b. 18 Nov. 1930; adm. Sept. 1945 (B); left July 1949; Old Vic Theatre Sch. 1950-1; Univ. Coll. Oxf., matric. 1951, BA 1955; co. man. Internat. Ballet 1952-3; a stage dir. 1955-8; dir. Yimkin Engineering 1954-9; management and design consult. 1958-68; man. dir. A. B. Saunders Assocs. 1960-95; man. dir. advertising and PR co. 1968-; retd.; m. 15 Mar. 1958 Angela Mary Palin, BBC studio man. and social worker, d. of Edward Moreton Palin, export man.; d. 15 Feb. 2014.

Herbert, Piers Marinel, 1936-2006

  • GB-2014-WSA-09109
  • Person
  • 1936-2006

Herbert, Piers Marinel, brother of Veryan Herbert (qv); b. 21 May 1936; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1954; called to the Bar, Inner Temple Feb. 1960; part-time dep. Circuit Judge 1975; d. 9 Mar. 2006.

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