Lives Remembered

524PM GMT seventeen March 2010

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Jean Walker-Smith

February 23, elderly 85. One of Britain"s inaugural postwar tennis players, personification in tournaments all over the universe and reaching the quarter-finals of the Ladies" singles at Wimbledon in 1949, 1951 and in 1952 (when she was seeded six). Educated at Roedean, she worked in an armaments bureau during the Second World War. First appeared in the singles at Wimbledon in 1947, when she lost in the initial round. Always wore a white badge in her hair on court, and represented Great Britain in the Wightman Cup in 1951 and 1952. With Jean Quertier, won the Ladies" doubles at the Italian Championships in Rome in 1950, defeating Betty Hilton and Kay Tuckey 1-6, 6-3, 6-2. The following year she reached the quarter-finals of the Ladies" doubles at Wimbledon. Continued to fool around tennis when she was in her eighties.

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Charles Moore

March 11, elderly 79. Photographer who chronicled the American polite rights struggles of the 1950s and 1960s. Recorded the detain of Martin Luther King in Montgomery, Alabama, and the white mobs that attempted to forestall James Meredith"s enrolment as the initial black tyro at the University of Mississippi in 1962. Also constructed images of Ku Klux Klan rallies. The son of a white Baptist apportion in Alabama, Moore served with the US Marines prior to receiving work as a photographer with a journal in Montgomery. Later went freelance and sole cinema to Life magazine, that in May 1963 allocated twelve pages to his cinema of a competition demonstration in the South. Years after he pronounced "I longed for to show how awful, how vulgar, how distressing this total thing was."

Major-General David Tyacke

February 10, elderly 94. Last autocratic troops officer of the Duke of Cornwall"s Light Infantry from 1957 until Oct 1959, when it amalgamated with the Somerset Light Infantry. Treasured his abounding Cornish birthright and remarked "I can snippet back, father and son, the line to at slightest 1620. They lived in towns and villages from Helston to Padstow, Germoe to St Columb. Great-grandfather Tyacke was Vicar of Padstow for 59 years." Served underneath Montgomery but indifferent his biggest indebtedness for General Bill Slim "His feat in defeating an stern rivalry with his "Forgotten XIV Army", in the face of all the logistic and meridian difficulties involved, contingency put him between the biggest troops commanders of all time."

Lesley Duncan

March 12, elderly 66. English thespian and songwriter who corroborated Pink Floyd and Dusty Springfield and duetted with Elton John in a version of her Love Song on his manuscript Tumbleweed Connection; additionally achieved the strain with him on theatre at the Royal Festival Hall in 1974. Born in Stockton-on-Tees, she got in to the song commercial operation by her hermit Jimmy, who managed The Pretty Things. Sang subsidy vocals on the Floyd"s Dark Side of the Moon, and additionally appeared on albums by Nirvana, Long John Baldry, Ringo Starr and Donovan, between most others. Can be listened in the carol on the LP of Jesus Christ Superstar. Her own albums enclosed Sing Children Sing; Earth Mother; Everything Changes; Moonbathing; and Maybe It"s Lost. In 1976 she toured the United States.

John Mulhern

March 15, elderly 69. Irish office worker and racehorse tutor who sent out Galmoy to win the Stayers" Hurdle at the Cheltenham Festival in 1987 and 1988; additionally lerned Flashing Steel, that won the Irish Grand National in 1995. Formerly ran Meadow Court Stud in Co Kildare, and for most years distributed solidified food products, together with the Findus and McCain brands, in the Irish Republic. A argumentative figure in the commercial operation world, he not long ago had to come up with €1.4 million in underpaid income taxation and collateral gains tax. His wife, Éimear Mulhern, is authority of the racer auction residence Goffs and the daughter of former Taoiseach Charles Haughey.