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• Anderson, Louisa Garrett    b. July 28, 1873  d. November 15, 1943
  Medical Pioneer, Social Reformer. She was educated at St. Leonard's School, St. Andrews, and at the London School of Medicine for Women (located at the Royal Free Hospital). Her father was a shipowner; her mother was the first woman to qualify as a doctor, and the first woman to be elected Mayor in Great Britian (of Aldeburgh, where she is buried). Until the outbreak of the First World War, when she went to France with the Women's Hospital Corps, Louisa was engaged in private practice and...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
   
• Blakely, David    b. June 17, 1929  d. April 10, 1955
  Murder Victim. The inscription on the tombstone reads "David Moffett Drummond Blakely, 1929-1955. He was great of heart, courtly and courageous." David Blakely was born in Sheffield in Yorkshire, the son of a Scottish doctor from Glasgow and his Irish wife from Ballynahinch. His parents later divorced. He was educated at Shrewsbury , but did poorly there, his only real interest being racing cars. After his National Service in the Highland Light Infantry, whose insignia appears on his tombstone...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Cause of death: Murdered (shot)
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
  Plot: Plot 48 in the graveyard extension
   
• Maclean, Donald Duarte    b. May 25, 1913  d. March 11, 1983
  Cold War Spy. The son of Sir Donald Maclean, Liberal Party politician, he was educated at Gresham's School in Norfolk and at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he read Modern Languages. In 1934, after graduating, he obtained a position at the Foreign Office. In 1940, he was working at the British Embassy in Paris when he married an American girl named Melinda Marling; they managed to escape on a British destroyer, just before the fall of the French capital. He was then transferred to Washington...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
   
• Maclean, Donald   b. January 9, 1864  d. June 15, 1932
  The inscription reads : "Donald Maclean, Privy Councillor, Knight of the British Empire, President of the Board of Education 1931-2." Sir Donald was the eldest son of John Maclean, a cordwainer (skilled shoemaker) of Kilmoluag of Tiree, in the Inner Hebrides, and his wife, Agnes Macmellin. He practised as a solicitor before becoming a Liberal Member of Parliament, representing Bath (1906-10), Peebles (1910-1922) and North Cornwall (1929 until his death). He was Chairman of the Liberal...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Cause of death: Heart attack
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
   
• Maclean, Gwendolen   b. July 7, 1880  d. July 23, 1962
  Gwendolen Margaret Devitt was born in Oxted, Surrey, the eldest daughter of Andrew Devitt, J.P. In 1907, she married Donald Maclean, Liberal M.P. for Bath. They had four sons and one daughter. Their eldest son, Ian, is buried with them. Another son, Donald, was the notorious double agent, and his ashes were sprinkled on the grave. (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
   
• Maclean, Ian   b. October 23, 1908  d. September 14, 1943
  See the entry for Donald Maclean. The inscription reads: "Also in memory of his eldest son, Ian Maclean, D.F.C. Born Oct. 23 1908. Killed in action Sept. 14-15 1943, Esbjerg, Denmark." (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Cause of death: Killed in action
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
   
• Uttley, Alison    b. December 17, 1884  d. May 7, 1976
  Author. Born at Castle Top Farm, Cromford, in Derbyshire, she studied at Bakewell Grammar School and Manchester University, where she received an Honours Degree in Physics. She was only the second woman to study science at that institution; which, in 1970, awarded her an honorary Doctorate of Literature. It was not until she had been left a widow that she began to write for publication. Over the next forty-five years, she produced over one hundred books, some for adults but mostly for children...[Read More] (Bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
  Holy Trinity Churchyard, Penn, Buckinghamshire, England
  Plot: No. 69 in the churchyard extension
   

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