"Screaming Lord Sutch David Edward Sutch (10 November 1940 – 16 June 1999), also known as 3rd Earl of Harrow, or simply Screaming Lord Sutch, was an English musician and politician. He was the founder of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party and served as its leader from 1983 to 1999, during which time he stood in numerous parliamentary elections. He holds the record for losing more than 40 elections in which he stood from 1963 to 1997. As a singer he variously worked with Keith Moon, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Charlie Watts and Nicky Hopkins. Sutch was"
"on exiting a bus. Screaming Lord Sutch committed suicide on 16 June 1999 while suffering from clinical depression after his mother, Annie, died in 1998. Sutch's death drew tributes from across the political spectrum. There were less complimentary comments, such as those from Roseanna Cunningham, at the time MP for Perth and a columnist for the Scottish ""Sunday Mail"". Cunningham claimed newspapers were more interested in the death of someone she felt had contributed nothing to politics nor society whilst ignoring the death the following day of Cardinal Basil Hume who, she felt, had done more. Cunningham had been upstaged"
"Girsh, founded the Final Exit Network. It took its name from Humphry's 1991 book of the same name. Several local and state organizations have adopted and retain the Hemlock Society name, including Florida and San Diego, California. Others, such as the Hemlock Society of Illinois (now Final Options Illinois) have changed their names. According to former president Faye Girsh, the Hemlock Society was founded in 1980 and named in reference to Socrates' decision to end his life by drinking Hemlock rather than succumb to an existence he found intolerable. Socrates was convicted in the 5th century BC of corrupting the"
"Cynthia Payne. He had a history of depression and committed suicide by hanging on 16 June 1999. At the inquest, his fiancée Yvonne Elwood said he had ""manic depression"". Sutch is buried beside his mother, who died on 30 April 1997, in the cemetery in Pinner, Middlesex. He was survived by a son, Tristan Lord Gwynne Sutch, born in 1975 to American model Thann Rendessy. In 1991, his autobiography, ""Life as Sutch: The Official Autobiography of a Raving Loony"" (written with Peter Chippindale), was published. In 2005 Graham Sharpe, who had known him since the late 1960s, wrote the first"
"Rodney Fitch Rodney Arthur Fitch, CBE (19 October 1938 – 20 October 2014) was an English designer. He founded the design company Fitch in 1972, and rejoined it as chairman and CEO in 2004. He was appointed Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 1990 for his 'influence on the British Design Industry'. Fitch died of cancer on 20 October 2014, at the age of 76. Fitch had a successful career in design which allowed him to be active in the development of design education and the arts in the United Kingdom. At the time"
"Graves Association, Belfast. In the Republic of Ireland, Sands's death led to riots and buses being set on fire. In response to a question in the House of Commons on 5 May 1981, United Kingdom Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher said, ""Mr. Sands was a convicted criminal. He chose to take his own life. It was a choice that his organisation did not allow to many of its victims"". Cardinal Basil Hume, head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, condemned Sands, describing the hunger strike as a form of violence. However, he noted that this was his personal view."
"its formation in the 1980s. Gaiman had three children, a son and two daughters: Neil Gaiman, the well-known fantasy author, Claire Edwards, head of Scientology Missions International, and Lizzy Calcioli. Gaiman took part in the inaugural London Marathon, in 1981, and came joint last. Gaiman, aged 75, had a heart attack during a business meeting and was dead by the time he reached hospital. A memorial service, attended by hundreds, was held for him at Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, and, on 12 March 2009, his Jewish funeral service was held in Brighton. David Gaiman David Bernard Gaiman (1933 –"
"Trust in 1981, and the Leeds-based Jimmy Savile Charitable Trust in 1984. During the sexual abuse scandal in October 2012 the charities announced that they would distribute their funds, of £1.7 million and £3.7 million respectively, among other charities and then close down. He also raised money for several Jewish charities. During his lifetime and at the time of his death, Savile was regarded as ""an eccentric adornment to British public life ... an ubiquitous and distinctive face on television"", who ""relished being in the public eye"" and was ""a shrewd promoter of his own image"". He was famous for"
"which was established in 1996. Following a stay in hospital himself, he established the David Telling Charitable Trust to support medical research in the Bristol area. In 1964 he married Jane Piggott and together they have two daughters, Louise and Susy. David Telling David Malcolm Telling was the founder of MITIE Group, which is now one of the United Kingdom's largest facilities management companies. Born in Harrow, North London on 12 August 1938 and brought up in Cleeve in Somerset, David Telling was educated at Cheltenham College. He died on 31 October 2003, aged 65. Telling was required to undertake"
"published the first suicide guide in the world, ""How to Die With Dignity"" by Dr George Mair. Other suicide books by authors around the world soon followed. The Society was originally called Scottish Exit, a branch of a parent London society. When the parent group's plans to publish such a book were delayed, the Scottish group formed an independent society dedicated to such publications. During its history, it has also been known as The Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Scotland, or the Scottish Voluntary Euthanasia Society, reverting to the name of Exit in 2000. ""How to Die With Dignity"" was followed"
"Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages Screaming Lord Sutch and the Savages were a British rock group from the early 1960s, sporting an ever-changing line-up of musicians and a taste for horror themes and zany humour. The group was founded by drummer Carlo Little, who was a friend of David Sutch, better known as Screaming Lord Sutch. Of the many musicians that would play with the Savages over the years, some would go on to stardom in their own right, most notably Jimmy Page, Ritchie Blackmore, Jeff Beck, Noel Redding, Jon Lord, Matthew Fisher, Ian Hunter, Adrian Gurvitz, actor Paul"
"that ever hit the headlines of the day.” They included docks, harbours, power stations, factories; the Wembley Stadium and the Dorchester Hotel were notable examples. In the case of the Dorchester, when the client was unable to pay for the construction works, the company took possession of the completed building and operated it on its own account. In November 1934, Sir Robert died aged 87. Two weeks later his eldest son, the new Sir Robert, also died. William was appointed Chairman while Alfred remained in charge of the operation in the north-west subsidiary, where he had been since 1918. The"
"euthanasia movements. The Voluntary Euthanasia Legalisation Society was founded in 1935 by Charles Killick Millard (now called Dignity in Dying). The movement campaigned for the legalisation of euthanasia in Great Britain. In January 1936, King George V was given a fatal dose of morphine and cocaine to hasten his death. At the time he was suffering from cardio-respiratory failure, and the decision to end his life was made by his physician, Lord Dawson. Although this event was kept a secret for over 50 years, the death of George V coincided with proposed legislation in the House of Lords to legalise"
"and searching."" Ernie Roberts, the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, said that there had been ""a complete breakdown of faith and credibility in the police"" in the area and the Commission for Racial Equality called for a full inquiry into both the death of Roach and the policing in Hackney generally. In June 1983 a coroner's jury returned a majority verdict of suicide. INQUEST, the United Kingdom pressure group founded following the death of Blair Peach at the hands of a police officer in April 1979, was highly critical of the coroner's directions to the jury, and said"
"more than 1 million members. The Gaydar brand expanded into other areas: Frisch was chairman of GaydarRadio, a digital radio station founded in 2002. Badenhorst and Frisch's personal partnership broke up in 2006, although they remained business partners. Frisch was found dead below the window of his eighth-floor flat in Wandsworth, South London. A verdict of misadventure was recorded by Dr Paul Knapman, the coroner at the inquest. A pathologist, Dr Peter Wilkins, said raised levels of ketamine were found in Mr Frisch's blood and liver. Gary Frisch Gary Frisch (22 January 1969 – 10 February 2007) was co-founder of"
"in 1990. He became Director of the Stationers Association, and found the International Federation of Stationers Associations in 1955. He was elected Master of the Worshipful Company of Glass Sellers in 1982. He was also made a Freeman of the City of London. In the last year of his life he lost the majority of his sight due to macular degeneration. He was cared for by his friend of over twenty years, Liz Cartledge. He died in August 2008, to an expected heart attack. His wife Winifred died from Alzheimer's disease in her 60's, and they together had two sons,"
"formally dissolved. The last member, Lord Lindley, died in 1921. Serjeant Sullivan, who died in 1959, was appointed to the equivalent Irish office decades after the distribution of assets, when the English society had effectively dissolved. The lease of the site of the former Serjeants' Inn on Fleet Street was taken on in 1737 by the Amicable Society for a Perpetual Assurance Office, the first life insurance company in the world, who raised a new building on the site in 1792–93, designed by Robert Adam. The site was redeveloped after the destruction of this building in the Second World War,"
"garage rock bands including the White Stripes, the Gruesomes, the Black Lips and the Horrors, the latter for their debut album. In 1963, Sutch and his manager, Reginald Calvert, took over Shivering Sands Army Fort, a Maunsell Fort off Southend, and in 1964 started Radio Sutch, intending to compete with other pirate radio stations such as Radio Caroline. Broadcasts consisted of music and Mandy Rice-Davies reading ""Lady Chatterley's Lover"". Sutch tired of the station, and sold it to Calvert, after which it was renamed Radio City, and lasted until 1967. In 1966 Calvert was shot dead by Oliver Smedley over"
"on his return founded the Green Shield Stamp Trading Company in the United Kingdom. In 1973, he adapted the format of his Green Shield catalogue shops, used for redeeming trading stamp books, and founded Argos, a catalogue store chain that took cash. Though independent, Argos operations were closely linked to Green Shield Stamps, and Argos was sold in 1979 to BAT Industries for £35 million. Tompkins died of cancer in 1992 in Westminster, a year after the stamps were withdrawn, and the same year he was honoured as a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Richard Tompkins"
"in the ""Daily Herald"" on 7 December 1953. He was director of the central London branch of Samaritans until 1974, and president from 1974 to 1986. He was also founder chairman of Befrienders Worldwide (Samaritans International) from 1974 to 1983, and then its president from 1983 to 1986. Later in life, Chad Varah became disillusioned with the Samaritans organisation. He announced in 2004 that, ""It's no longer what I founded. I founded an organisation to offer help to suicidal or equally desperate people. The last elected chairman re-branded the organisation. It was no longer to be an emergency service. It"
"a member of the police Special Patrol Group. Peach died later in hospital. An inquest jury later returned a verdict of misadventure, and no police officer was ever charged or prosecuted, although an internal police inquiry at the time and not released officially for 30 years, thought he had been killed by an unidentifiable police officer. A primary school in Southall bears his name. In 1981 with the eclipse of the National Front and collapse of the British Movement the initial incarnation of the ANL was wound up. Some elements within the ANL opposed the winding up of the organisation,"
"organisation which aims to assist people affected by depression. It was founded in 1985 by a group of patients, relatives and health professionals. Console was a charity that offered suicide bereavement services including a 24/7 Suicide Helpline, Suicide Bereavement Liaison Service and a Suicide Bereavement Counselling Service. Its founder received a People of the Year award in 2014. Reports emerged in 2016 that the charity was mismanaged and the charity was closed. Campaigner David Hall was appointed interim CEO during the winding-down process. A national charity regulator was appointed in the same year. Cycle Against Suicide is an organisation that"
"Allied Domecq, in 1990. Fortune Brands then split up its business product lines in 2011, forming its spirits business into Beam Inc. Beam was then purchased by Suntory in April 2014. Williamson died at Gartnavel General Hospital in Glasgow on 26 May 1982. Bessie Williamson Elizabeth Leitch ""Bessie"" Williamson (22 August 1910 – 26 May 1982) was a Scottish distillery manager and former owner of the Laphroaig distillery noted for being the first woman to manage a Scotch whisky distillery during the 20th century. She is credited as being instrumental in promoting single malt whisky, in particular Islay malts and"
"UK. After he left ministerial office he introduced the Property Misdescriptions Act, which aimed to curb ""the more extravagant claims of estate agents"". He was also a euro-sceptic and was one of the Maastricht rebels who voted against the Government in 1993. When he left politics due to heart problems which would eventually take his life, he became chairman of the Institute of Directors . He was also director of a number of successful businesses in the West Midlands. He died of heart failure at the age of 60, on Christmas Day 2006, at 1500 feet, beside Alcock Tarn in"
"for pirate radio in the mid-1960s. In 1964, a few months after Radio Caroline went on air, Screaming Lord Sutch set up Radio Sutch in one of the towers at Shivering Sands. Sutch soon became bored with the project and sold the station to his manager Reginald Calvert who renamed the station Radio City and expanded operations into all of the five towers that remained connected. Calvert's killing in a dispute over the station's ownership (found to be self-defence rather than murder) contributed to the Government passing legislation against the pirates in 1967. During the pirate era the Port of"
"2017 he was chairman of UK Broadband Limited, owner of the Relish wireless broadband service and the UK subsidiary of PCCW. UK Broadband was sold to Three UK in May 2017. He visited Hong Kong several times after his departure, attracting interest from the pro-Beijing media which speculated on his strategising with pan-democrat opposition and ""meddling"" in Hong Kong's internal affairs. Ford died on 10 September 2017, at the age of 82. Lady Gillian Ford, his wife, was a founder and subsequently patron of the Hong Kong Children's Cancer Foundation from 1988 to 1992. David Ford (civil servant) Sir David"
"in 1976 to provide reasonable rented accommodation. By the 21st century, it had acquired around 400 flats. St Anne's Church in Dean Street was refurbished after decades of neglect, and a Museum of Soho was established. On 30 April 1999, the Admiral Duncan pub on Old Compton Street, which serves the gay community, was damaged by a nail bomb that left three dead and 30 injured. The bomb was the third that had been planted by David Copeland, a neo-Nazi who was attempting to stir up ethnic and homophobic tensions by carrying out a series of bombings. Soho is near"
"Television South, City Vision, Ritz Video, Granada Group and the Beatrice Royal Contemporary Art and Craft Gallery. David Quayle David Andrew Quayle (19 August 1936 – 6 April 2010) was a British businessman best known as co-founder of the UK DIY chain B&Q. He worked in the Marley Tile company in the 1960s and together with his brother-in-law Richard Block started the B&Q retail chain in 1969. Their idea of large warehouse-style DIY stores copied the style already successfully operating in other European countries, but was unknown in the UK and B&Q soon became the largest retail suppliers of DIY"
"is based in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London. Cheshire founded the Raphael Pilgrimage to support sick and disabled people to travel to Lourdes. Sue Ryder Care, a charity founded in 1953 by Sue Ryder, before she met Leonard Cheshire, is also one of the 50 largest charities in the UK. Leonard Cheshire Disability Leonard Cheshire is a major health and welfare charity working in the United Kingdom and running development projects around the world. It was founded in 1948 by Royal Air Force officer Leonard Cheshire. The mission of the charity is to encourage and"
"Edmund Truell, Chief Executive of Pension Corporation and founder, Duke Street 2000 David Thorp, Director, Livingbridge 1999 James Nelson, Non-executive Director, Intermediate Capital Group 1998 Clive Sherling, Former Chairman, Football Licensing Authority 1997 Norman Murray, Chairman, Cairn Energy 1996 David Quysner, Non-executive Director, Private Equity Investor 1995 Andrew Joy, Partner, Cinven 1994 Brian Larcombe, Non-executive Director, Gallaher Group 1993 Ron Hollidge, Chairman, Kleinwort Capital Trust 1992 Robert Drummond, Chairman, Acta 1991 Adrian Beecroft, Partner and former Chief Investment Officer, Apax Partners 1990 Michael Denny, Executive Chairman, Northern Venture Managers Limited 1989 Richard Hargreaves, Chairman, SPDG Technologies 1988 John Nash, Chairman,"
"senior leadership positions in the British establishment. The Iwerne camps produced many men who became influential church leaders such as John Stott, David Sheppard, Michael Green, Dick Lucas and Justin Welby among those attending. The Titus Trust was set up in 1997 and took over fundraising from the Iwerne Trust. In 2000 it took control of the running of the holidays from the Scripture Union. John Smyth QC a former Chairman of Iwerne Trust had been wanted for questioning by the police at the time of his death in August 2018. There were multiple claims from former boys at Winchester"
"1979 general election. Lady Hesketh was instrumental in him standing for Daventry. He was a Minister of State at the Department of Health and Social Security in Margaret Thatcher's government between 1979 and 1981. He left the government owing to ill health. He was knighted in 1987, the year he stepped down as an MP. On 30 January 1992, he was created Life Peer as Baron Prentice, of Daventry in the County of Northamptonshire. In the last few years before his death at age 77, he was President of the Devizes Conservative Association. He died in Mildenhall, Wiltshire. His daughter,"
"1983, Joint Secretary to the 1922 Committee from 1979 to 1983, and was Vice-Chairman of the Conservative Defence Committee from 1974 to 1983. He was made a Knight Bachelor in 1982. He steered a Private Member's Bill to the statute book, to allow ""death-bed"" marriages to take place outside licensed premises. After another heart attack and further coronary bypass surgery in 1981, he stood down at the 1983 general election. He was the son of Rudolph Goodhew of Mannings Heath, Sussex. His family owed a chain of restaurants. He was married and divorced three times. He first married Sylvia Johnson"