The Rev James Lawson, Martin Luther King’s right-hand man in the Civil Rights struggle – obituary
He believed passionately in non-violence and went to prison rather than fight in Korea
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He believed passionately in non-violence and went to prison rather than fight in Korea
He personified old-style integrity and was a key adviser to the government on the privatisation of British Telecom
Having turned to the law only in her 30s, she went on to try the biggest matrimonial finance case in English history
Noted for his charm and discretion, he described his most famous auction as ‘like skiing down a perfect piste in absolutely perfect weather’
Endo reduced his own cholesterol levels with diet and exercise, quoting a Japanese proverb: ‘The indigo dyer wears white trousers’
In 2002, his father, the deposed king Zahir Shah, returned to Afghanistan and was greeted as ‘Father of the Nation’ but Ahmad stayed away
In 1966 he was one of the stars of the Anglia TV documentary All the Queen’s Men, about life in the Household Brigade
Her work ranged from The Pyjama Game on stage to films including Silk Stockings with Fred Astaire and Happy Days on television
He was a television natural whose work was ‘utterly rooted in science’, and he cited Orwell as his inspiration: ‘He lived his journalism’
As they plunged through the Moon’s shadow, the astronauts broadcast to Earth their reading from the Creation story in the Book of Genesis
His music was thought too dark, so to convince the producers he wrote and recorded a playful three-minute symphonic work at his own expense
Presiding over Linford Christie’s libel action, he piped up with faux-naïveté: ‘What exactly do you mean by Linford’s “lunchbox”?’
To train for D-Day, Howorth practised boarding landing craft and swimming in a loch in Scotland with a pack loaded with stones
During the airborne Operation Varsity, Schaffer landed in a fir tree and had to cut himself out of his parachute and shin down the tree
She found her calling when a portrait of her appeared at the Royal Academy and people were astonished that it was not Her Majesty
He was awarded the DFC following his service in Burma for ‘action above and beyond the call of duty’
‘The long shadow of Auschwitz’ led him to demonstrate for peace and support Liberation Theology in Latin America and civil rights in the USA
‘I had to face up to the harm I did to people when I served in the army,’ he admitted when he co-founded the National League for Democracy
She insisted on doing her own laundry in the White House, eating television suppers and moving without a security cordon
Burnside’s memoirs recall his drunken father throwing his sister down the stairs and burning his teddy bear, yet his poems were lyrical