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7Apr

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Medics, Profiles, United Kingdom

Janice Graham, Nurse

Janice Graham – a Nurse in Greenock, Scotland – passed away on 6 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Janice was 58 years old. Louise Long, chief officer of Inverclyde Health and Social Care Partnership, said: “We are saddened to confirm a member of staff has passed away due to Covid-19.” Source: Edinburgh News Please help us in adding details.

Barbara Moore, Patient Discharge Planner

7Apr

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Barbara Moore, Patient Discharge Planner

Barbara Moore- a Patient Discharge Planner at Aintree University Hospital, Liverpool, England – passed away on 6 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Barbara was 54 years old. Barbara's dedication to her job meant patients returned "to their loved ones as soon and as simply as possible", an NHS spokeswoman said. The 54-year-old, who spent most of her career as a care worker for people with disabilities, worked in "one of our unsung hero roles", said Dianne Brown, chief nurse of Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. Source: BBC Please help us in adding details.

6Apr

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High Profilers, Profiles, United Kingdom

John Laws, judge

Sir John Grant McKenzie Laws ‑ a Lord Justice of Appeal – succumbed to Covid-19 virus on 5 April 2020. He served from 1999 to 2016. He was the Goodhart Visiting Professor of Legal Science at the University of Cambridge, and an Honorary Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. Laws was born on 10 May 1945, the son of Dr Frederic Laws and his wife Dr Margaret Ross, née McKenzie, the daughter of the Congregational minister and academic John Grant McKenzie. He was educated at Durham Chorister School, and as a King's Scholar at Durham School. He studied at Exeter College, Oxford as a Senior Open Classical Scholar, receiving a First Class BA in 1967, and an MA in 1976. He became an Honorary Fellow of the College in 2000. He was called to the Bar at the Inner Temple ...

6Apr

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Rebecca Mack, Nurse

Rebecca Mack, 29, Nurse, Newcastle, England – passed away on 5 April 2020 after suffering from COVID-19. Rebecca was 29 years old.. Ms Mack recently started working for NHS 111, but was previously a children’s cancer nurse and parents of those she once cared for paid tribute to the 29-year-old. Aman Sengal, whose daughter was cared for by Ms Mack in the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle, said she was a “selfless person”. “A life taken far too soon and that of a selfless person dedicated to others. RIP Becca,” he wrote on social media. Another parent, Ashley Oakly, said Ms Mack cared for her son in “his darkest days undergoing cancer treatment”. “She still entered the room with a huge smile and a huge heart, truly dedicated to her job and a credit to the unit.” Writing in a tribute ...

6Apr

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Neighbors, Profiles, United Kingdom

Carol Jamabo, Care Worker

Carol Jamabo – a Care Worker, Bury in Greater Manchester, England – passed away after suffering from COVID-19. Carol was 56 years old. A devout Christian, Ms Jamabo served the public as a key worker for over 25 years, after moving to the UK from Nigeria in the early 1990s. She previously worked in both the prison service and as an NHS administrator at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London. Source: Mail Online Please help us in adding details.

5Apr

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Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom, United States

Jay Benedict, actor

Jay Benedict, an American actor who played Captain/Major John Kieffer in the British detective drama Foyle's War, in the episodes "Invasion" and "All Clear" – died of Covid-19 on April 4, 2020. Benedict was born in Burbank, California. He lived and worked in Europe from the 1960s onwards. His theatrical credits include The Rocky Horror Show in the Kings Road in the early 1970s, Harold Pinter's production of Sweet Bird of Youth, The Reverend Lee in The Foreigner and Riccardo in Franco Zeffirelli's production of Filumena in which he played opposite Pierce Brosnan in the latter's first stage role, and Bill Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, in a touring production of "One Day at a Time". In 2013 he appeared opposite Stev...

5Apr

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Alexander Thynn, aristocratic landowner

Alexander George Thynn ‑ 7th Marquess of Bath-styled Viscount Weymouth between 1946 and 1992, and a British aristocratic landowner, who sat in the House of Lords from 1992 until 1999, and a self- acclaimed artist and author ‑ died on 4 April, 2020 at the age of 87 due to COVID-19. Ranked 359th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2009 with an estimated wealth of £157 million, Lord Bath was in the media spotlight for his hippy fashion-sense and for developing Longleat as an animal sanctuary and tourist attraction. Thynn was born in London, the son of Henry Thynne, 6th Marquess of Bath and Daphne Fielding, and grew up at his family seat, Longleat, a grand Elizabethan house set in Wiltshire parkland landscaped in the 18th century by Capability Brown. After attending Ludgrove ...

4Apr

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Profiles, United Kingdom

Dr. William Frankland

An allergy pioneer who popularized the pollen count, United Kingdom Dr. William Frankland, 108, an allergy pioneer who popularized the pollen count, died from Covid19 in the United Kingdom on April 2, 2020. The pioneering work of Dr Frankland, a British immunologist who transformed the world’s understanding of allergies, included developing the idea of a pollen count to help hay fever sufferers. Dr Frankland, whose medical career spanned 70 years, was known as “the grandfather of allergy”. As a British army doctor in World War Two, he spent three-and-a-half years in Japanese prisoner of war camps. Historian Dan Snow tweeted he would never forget meeting Dr Frankland, who he called “one of the greatest Britons”. Prof Adam Fox, president of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical...

4Apr

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Ireland, Noteworthy, Profiles, United Kingdom

Tim Robinson, cartographer

Timothy Drever Robinson, an English writer and cartographer, passed away on 3 April 2020after suffering from coronavirus complications. His most famous works include books about Ireland's Aran Islands and Connemara, in the West of Ireland. He was also well known for producing exceptionally detailed maps of the Aran Islands, The Burren, and Connemara, what he called "the ABC of earth wonders". Born in England, he studied mathematics at the Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. After a career as a visual artist in Istanbul, Vienna and London, he settled in the Aran Islands, off the coast of County Galway in the 1970s, and began a detailed study of the landscape of the West Region, Ireland. Robinson produced his first map of the Aran Islands in 1975 with a se...

4Apr

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Amanda Forde, GP Receptionist

Amanda Forde, a GP Receptionist at The Vale Practice, London, England – passed away on 3 April, 2020, after suffering from COVID-19. Forde worked at a GP practice in London. Her employer described her as “a beautiful, caring receptionist”. The practice’s website includes a dedication to her that concludes: “May she rest in peace.” Source: The Guardian Please help us in adding details.