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A Necrology
requiescant in pace

Fr Bernard de Give — 106, Trappist monk of Scourmont in Belgium and Tibetologist

Jean Delumeau — 96, Catholic academic and historian of mentalities

Jacques Houplain — 99, French engraver and painter

Joseph A. O’Hare S.J. — 89, only Bronx-born president of Fordham University

Edward Millward — 89, academic, co-founder of the Welsh Language Society, tutored the Prince of Wales in Welsh

Garth Owen-Smith — 76, Namibian conservationist

Mike Auret — 83, farmer, MP, and “the most Catholic man in Zimbabwe”

Jacques Le Brun — 88, expert on Bossuet, Fenelon, and historian of seventeenth-century Christianity

Fr François de Gaulle — 98, French missionary in Africa, nephew of Gen. de Gaulle

Wilson Roosevelt Jerman — 91, White House butler who served eleven U.S. presidents

Émile Chaline — 98, French admiral and résistant de la première heure

Anne Kernan — 87, Irish particle physicist at CERN and in California

Zeev Sternhell — 85, Israeli academic and leading theorist on fascism

Christophe Keckeis — 75, Swiss Chief of the Armed Forces

Elsa Joubert — 97, Sestigers writer and Chancellor of Stellenbosch University

Jean Raspail — 94, writer

Yvonne, Lady Cochrane — 98, Lebanese aristocrat and philanthropist

Dirk Mudge — 92, Namibian politician and newspaper founder

Desmond Guinness — 89, founder of the Irish Georgian Society

Jean-Louis Ferrary — 72, French historian of ancient Rome

Amaresh Datta — 102, chief editor of the Encyclopedia of Indian Literature

Pete Hamill — 85, New York journalist and writer

Carlisle Trost — 90, American admiral and former Chief of Naval Operations

Constand Viljoen — apartheid-era Chief of the South African Defence Force later democratically elected an Member of Parliament

László Török — 79, Hungarian historian, archaeologist, and Egyptologist

2nd Lt Irma Dryden — 100, one of the last Tuskegee Airmen nurses

Edgard Tupët-Thomé — 100, Free French army officer and Kantangese mercenary

Henrietta Boggs — 102, former First Lady of Costa Rica

George Bizos — 92, lawyer who defended Mandela at the Rivonia trial

Vladimir Osipov — 82, publisher of Slavophile samizdats

George Henry Vanderbilt Cecil — 95, Royal Navy veteran and chairman of Biltmore Farms in North Carolina

Abai Ikwechegh — 97, Nigerian jurist and Justice of the Court of Appeal

Shlomo Gazit — 93, former head of Israeli Military Intelligence

Fr Bede Lackner — 93, Hungarian-born American academic and Cistercian monk

Basil Yamey — 101, South African economist, former trustee of the National Gallery and the Tate, author of Art and Accounting

Carlos G. Vallés S.J. — 95, Spanish writer and mathematician in India and recipient of the highest award for Gujarati literature

Andrzej Wawrzyniak — 89, Polish sailor and diplomat and founder of the largest collection of Indonesian art

Joseph Altairac — 63, literary critic, expert on subterranean literature, and France’s most prominent Lovecraftian

Gonçalo Ribeiro Telles — 98, Portuguese academic, politician, monarchist, and conservationist

Keith Hitchins — 89, America’s leading expert on the history of Romania

Archbishop Henri Teissier — 91, successor of Cardinal Duval as Archbishop of Algiers (1988 to 2008)

Lord Kerr of Tonaghmore — 72, Justice of the Supreme Court and second Catholic Lord Chief Justice of Northern Ireland

Bernard Vogler — 85, the leading historian of Alsace

Theodore Ziolkowski — 88, American scholar of German comparative literature, awarded the Bundesverdienstkreuz (first class)

Tabaré Vázquez — 80, oncologist and president of Uruguay who vetoed the legalisation of abortion

Paul W. Schroeder — 93, American historian who blamed Great Britain for the First World War

Walter Hooper — 89, writer, C.S. Lewis expert, and Anglican clergyman turned Catholic convert

Bill Holm — 95, art historian who highlighted the indigenous art of the Pacific Northwest

Tim Severin — 80, explorer and historian who retraced St Brendan’s journey to the New World in a currach

Makosso IV — 76, the seventeenth King of Loango in the Congo

Published at 6:30 pm on Thursday 31 December 2020. Categories: Errant Thoughts History Tags: .
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