GRIECO
GRIERSON
GRIFFIN
GRIFFITH
GRIFFITHS
GRIGNON
GRIMES
GRISE
GRISZBACHER
GRITLI
GRIECO o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-03-05 published
GRIECO,
Paul
Peacefully in his 93rd year of life, at North York General Hospital,
on Monday, March 3, 2003. Paul was a man who thanked God each
day for his life, his family and his blessings, and this is the
legacy he left to his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Beloved husband of the late Rose
GRIECO (née
DILEO.)
Wonderful
father of Rosalie (Sarasua), Joseph, Frank, and Cathy (Tait).
Dear brother of the late John
GRIECO and Anne
DIFRANCO.
Dearly
loved grandfather of Rosalie-Anne, Carlos, Irene, Nikki, Natalie,
Mason, Meghan and Cameron. Great-grandfather of Alysha-Rose and
Nicolas. Proud Founder, along with his wife Rose, of P.R. Engineering
in Oshawa, Ontario. He will be always remembered and greatly
missed by his family and Friends. Friends may call from 7-9 p.m.
Wednesday, March 5 and 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, March 6,
2003, at the R.S. Kane Funeral Home (6150 Yonge Street, at Goulding,
south of Steeles). Funeral mass on Friday, March 7 at 10: 30 a.m.
at St. Paschal Baylon Church (92 Steeles Avenue, just west of
Yonge Street). Interment at Mount Hope Cemetery. Donations would
be greatly appreciated to one of the following organizations:
3T5 Alumni Association, University of Toronto (Second Mile Award
scholarship fund) or North York General Hospital Foundation for
nursing education. Heartfelt thanks to all the nurses of North
York General Hospital for their loving care and support.
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GRIERSON o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-01-27 published
Died
This
Day -- Norman
McLAREN, 1987
Monday, January 27, 2003, Page R7
Animator and filmmaker born on April 11, 1914, at Stirling, Scotland
worked as a cameraman for a Spanish Civil War documentary; in
1937, joined staff of British
GPO
Film
Unit under John
GRIERSON
in 1841, followed
GRIERSON to National Film Board of Canada in
1941; won 147 awards for short films, including Pas de Deux (1968),
Neighbours (1952) and Ballet Adagio (1971).
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GRIERSON,
Margaret
E.
In her 97th year, died peacefully on April 17th. at Central Park
Lodge, Toronto. Predeceased by her brother Gordon and sister-in-law
Phyllis GRIERSON.
She will be greatly missed by her family and
Friends.
Special thanks to her caregiver Stella
O'BYRNE.
Donations
in Margaret's memory can be made to the Canadian National Institute
for the Blind.
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GRIFFIN o@ca.on.manitoulin.howland.little_current.manitoulin_expositor 2003-02-19 published
GRACE
E.
GALBRAITH
November 27, 1903 - February 14, 2003
Grace GALBRAITH, a resident of the Manitoulin Lodge, Gore Bay, died
at the Lodge on Friday, February 14, 2003 at the age of 99 years.
She was born in London, England, daughter of the late Edward and
Emily (RAYNER)
GRIFFIN and at the age of 8 years came to Stratford,
Ontario with her brother and sister, through the Thomas Bernardo
Child Care Organization. She later came to the Island and at the age
of 14, lived and worked for William and Mable
McDONALD at Providence
Bay, until her marriage to James
GALBRAITH on February 20, 1920. She
and James raised their family on the 12th line of Campbell Township.
In 1952, she and James moved to Espanola, and Ransford took over the
family farm. James predeceased her in 1970, but she continued to
live in Espanola until 1991, when she came to live at Manitoulin Lodge.
Grace enjoyed sewing, knitting, crocheting, tatting and canning.
Loved and loving mother of Evelyn
PATTISON (husband Warren
LEGGE,
predeceased 1972 and Jim
PATTISON, 1986,) Lorma
MIDDAUGH (husband
Bill predeceased 2002,) Mildred
McCORMICK (husband William
predeceased 1998,) Leona
SLOSS and husband Chester of Espanola and
Ransford and his wife
Lavina
GALBRAITH of Mindemoya. Proud
grandmother of 22 grandchildren, 46 great grandchildren and 35 great
great grandchildren. Predeceased by brother Edward (Ted)
GRIFFIN and
sister Lilly
GRIFFIN.
Friends called the Culgin Funeral Home from 1-2 pm on Monday,
February 17, 2003. The funeral service was conducted at 2 pm with
Reverend Frank
HANER officiating. Spring interment in Mindemoya Cemetery.
Culgin Funeral Home 282-2270.
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GRIFFIN o@ca.on.york_county.toronto.globe_and_mail 2003-06-11 published
GRIFFIN,
Oda
Rockliff
Died peacefully at home on June 9, 2003, with dignity and courage.
Beloved wife of the late Peter
GRIFFIN.
Loving mother of Tova
and Gail. Predeceased by her daughter June. Cherished mother-in-law
to Don WILLARD, Ed Charles and Dr. Lee
BOOKER. Adored by her
grandchildren, John, Lee Ann, Jill, Leilani, Terry, Peter and
her great-grand_son Justin. Oda will be sadly missed by Tony,
Kitty and family, and by the dear family of the late Peter
GRIFFIN.
The Funeral Service will be held at Holy Rosary Church, 354 St.
Clair Ave. West, Toronto, on Friday, June 13, at 10: 30 a.m.,
with family visitation at 10 a.m. In lieu of flowers, donations
may be made to Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care, 700 University
Ave. (3rd floor), Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z5 or Mississippi Society
of Canada (National Office), 250 Bloor St. East, Suite 1000,
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3P9.
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EDDY,
Larry
Alan,
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants
He Died
Those who knew Larry well would recognize that the above was
the obituary that he requested.
Larry passed away peacefully at Cygnet Hollow, his farm near
Sunderland, Ontario, on November 2, 2003. His love and wonderful
sense of humor will be greatly missed by his wife Dorothy, daughter
Kimberley, son Kevin, and daughter-in-law Pamela. His sisters
Carole GRIFFIN an Sue
O'NEILL together with their spouses Peter
and Bill and their families will miss him as well.
At Larry's request, there will be no service. However, there
will be an open house at Cygnet Hollow on Sunday, November 9
between 1: 00 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. For directions, visit www.eddy.ca
or call 705-357-1908. Donations in his memory may be made to
the Uxbridge Cottage Hospital (building fund) or a charity or
your choice. Funeral arrangements entrusted to Low and Low Funeral
Home (905) 852-3073.
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HODY,
Maud
Hazel
Hurst, B.A., B.Ed., M.Ed., Ed.D.
Died November 18, 2003 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. She was born
May 23, 1928 in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was the wife
of the late Reginald Edmund
HODY and mother of Florence, Vancouver,
Reginald David, Halifax, William (Pam
GRIFFIN-
HODY), Ottawa,
and Laura, Dartmouth. She is also survived by her grandchildren,
Max and Arden
HODY,
Ottawa, and her sister Clare
DICK, Vancouver.
Maud's original career was as a teacher. She received her B.A.
and B.Ed. from the University of British Columbia, her M.Ed.
from the University of New Brunswick, and her doctorate from
the University of Toronto. She taught in Burns Lake, British
Columbia, and Moncton, New Brunswick. She had a second career
in Corrections Canada as a parole officer, the first woman in
the Maritimes to be in this position. Among other scholarly activities,
Maud was involved in research and writing for the Dictionary
of Canadian Biography. Social action and the community were always
of great importance to her. She was one of the founding members
of the Unitarian Fellowship in Moncton, New Brunswick in the
1950's, was involved with Voice of Women, the New Democratic
Party and many other activities. Maud had a life-long love for
travel, and spent much time traversing Canada, the United States,
Europe, and particularly Australia. A memorial service and reception
will be held at the Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax,
5500 Inglis Street, Monday November 24 at 2: 00 pm. No flowers
or donations by Maud's request.
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Patricia Joan
STERRITT
In loving memory of Patricia Joan
STERRITT (née
MORRIS) a resident of
Manitowaning, died at Laurentian Hospital, Sudbury, on Sunday, October 19, 2003 at the age of 69.
Pat was born in Brampton, daughter of the late Gilbert and Mona
(TRIMBLE)
MORRIS.
Will be dearly missed by her loving husband
Malcolm SINCLAIR
STERRITT and her children Richard (Rick)
STERRITT of
Brampton, Wendy
(GRAY/GREY) and husband Jim of Palgrave, Robert and wife
Lorie of Caledon East, Carl and wife Karen of Alton. Her six
grandchildren Mandy, Laura, Nicole, Samantha, Jake and Benjamin will miss their "Nanny"
Predeceased by brothers Robert and Brian and survived by dear sister
Virginia and husband Yvon
GALIPEAU of Milton, Gail
GRIFFITH of
Brampton, Mary
(CLARIDGE) and husband Hap of Salmon Arm, BC, Julie
(CAMPBELL) and husband Brian of Brampton, brothers John, of Brampton
and Grant and wife Pam of Chatham. Visitation was held on Monday,
October 20, 2003. Funeral service was held on Tuesday, October 21,
2003 all at St. Paul's Anglican Church, Manitowaning, Ontario. Reverend
Canon Bain
PEEVER officiating. Burial in Hilly Grove Cemetery.
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THURLING,
Lauretta
Blanche (née
VILLENEUVE)
Died peacefully at home in Peterborough, February 24, 2003 after
a glorious life of 92 years. Lauretta was the beloved wife of
the late Melville C.
THURLING.
She is survived by her adoring
family and her children, Peter and Lynne, their spouses Joan
SCHAFER and John
TREILHARD, grandchildren - Pier and Zoe
THURLING,
Kevin and Shane
QUINN,
Sydney
GRIFFITH, Marieke
TREILHARD and
five great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her brother
Hector VILLENEUVE and by her sister Connie
ADAM/ADAMS.
Lauretta was
a magical matriarch never to be forgotten by her family and many
Friends. Funeral Mass to be celebrated Friday, February 28, 3: 00
p.m. (visitation one hour prior) by Father Rudolph
VILLENEUVE
and Father Cleary
VILLENEUVE at St. Alphonsus Roman Catholic
Church, 1066 Western Ave. (at Clonsilla Ave.) Peterborough. Contributions
to the Canadian Cancer Society would be kindly appreciated. Arrangements
entrusted to the Kaye Funeral Home 'Memorial Chapel' Peterborough, Ontario.
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GRIFFITH,
Anne
Felicity
Died on 20th of May, 2003 at Cobourg Hospital. Loving wife, close
friend and companion of Bill. Very dear and supportive mother
of Suzanne and Maurice
EAGAN,
Bruce and Eva
GRIFFITH and Sarah
Jane and Greg
SONES.
Grandmother of William and Hilary, Scott
and Sandy, and Robin and Jacqueline. In keeping with Anne's wishes
there will be no funeral. Cremation has taken place. Those who
wish to remember her, are invited to join the family at home
at 11 Moore Drive, Port Hope on Sunday June 8th from 1 to 4 p.m.
In living memory of Anne, please plant ''something special''
in your garden.
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HENRY,
Christina (née
MITCHELL)
Died Wednesday, April 2nd, 2003, in Ottawa, after a lengthy illness.
She left this world as she lived her life with dignity, courage
and grace. Survived by her loving family, husband, Dr. Sandy
HENRY, sons Blair and Neil (Wendy,) brother Ian
MITCHELL of Stornoway,
Scotland and nephew Christopher
MITCHELL
(Karen) of Chicago.
Her grandchildren Alexandra and Mitchell will dearly miss their
beloved Seanny.
The family wish to thank the staff of the palliative home care
program for their great help in maintaining Chris at home. Special
thanks as well to Dr. Pippa
HALL and her family General Practitioner,
Dr. Brian GRIFFITHS.
Cremation. A service in memory of Christina will be held on Monday,
April 7th, 2003 at 2 p.m. at the First Unitarian Church at 30
Cleary Avenue (off Richmond Road near Woodroffe) to be followed
by a reception there.
Arrangements by Kelly Funeral Home, Carling Avenue (613-235-6712).
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HALL,
Harold
John
At Providence Centre, Toronto, on Tuesday, June 17, 2003. Harold
died peacefully, in his 87th year. Predeceased by his beloved
wife Patricia.
Father of Ken, Carol, and son-in-law Tom
GRIFFITHS.
Grandfather of Alexander and Sarah. Brother of Helen and brother-in-law
of Betty. Missed by Mabel
BURROUGHS and family. A private family
service will be held. In memory of Harold, donations to Providence
Centre, 3276 St. Clair Avenue East, Toronto M1L 1W1, would be
appreciated.
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Part of Globe history passes with
DALGLEISH
Ex-publisher's wife dies on the same day as their son
By Michael
VALPY,
Tuesday,
December 9, 2003 - Page A17
Delsya DALGLEISH was a beautiful South African ballet dancer.
She gave her name to one of the world's best-known brands of
toilet paper. She married a legendary Globe and Mail editor and
publisher, and, when she died at 92, it was on the same day in
the same hospital as her son, Peter.
The deaths last Thursday were coincidental. Mr.
DALGLEISH, 68,
died in the afternoon of a cancer that had been diagnosed a short
time earlier. Ms.
DALGLEISH, who had been in a nursing home,
died of old age later the same day. She was not aware her son
had predeceased her, as had his two brothers several years earlier.
Born Delsya
GRIFFITHS in Wales, she was raised in South Africa
and had an established London stage career when she met Oakley
DALGLEISH, a 22-year-old Canadian student at the London School
of Economics. They married almost immediately. He was appointed
editor-in-chief of The Globe 15 years later and publisher 10
years after that.
The DALGLEISHes were a glamorous and adventurous couple, travelling
the world and partying throughout Europe and North America with
the powerful and celebrated.
Ensconced members of what passed for Toronto café society in
the 1940s and 1950s (Steak Oakley was on the menu of Winston's
restaurant on Bay Street for years), they and their companions
in full evening dress would sometimes go into The Globe's newsroom
late in the evening for a nightcap in the editor's office.
Ms. DALGLEISH, in clinging gowns, would twirl gaily around the
floor, eliciting whistles from copy editors toiling beneath green
eyeshades.
Her husband Oakley, a handsome, elegantly dressed man, had lost
his left eye as the result of a freak childhood accident involving
a fire truck, and from his earliest adult days he wore a jet-black
eye patch. The look was dashing, and was noticed by an advertising
executive at a New York cocktail party who gave birth to the
Hathaway shirt man.
The same executive, after being introduced to, and charmed by,
Delsya DALGLEISH, bestowed her name (with his own spelling) on
a toilet-paper account, Kimberley-Clark's Delsey "bathroom tissue."
Mr. DALGLEISH died at age 53 in 1963. Ms.
DALGLEISH was appointed
to The Globe's board of directors by her husband's successor,
Montreal businessman R. Howard
WEBSTER, and was consulted by
Mr. WEBSTER on how the newspaper should be run.
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HEATHCOTE,
Eric
Thomas
Blake
Died peacefully, after a short illness, at North York General
Hospital, on March 12, 2003. The loving husband of Barbara, father
of Isobel and Blake, grandfather of Elspeth, Zoe, Elizabeth,
Edward and Maggie, and brother of Joan
GRIGNON of Ajax. He was
predeceased by his father, Major E.T.
HEATHCOTE,
Military
Medal,
Canadian
Efficiency
Decoration, and his mother, Winnifred
(WALLIS)
HEATHCOTE.
Blake was born in Toronto in 1925, attended Lawrence
Park Collegiate, and graduated from the University of Toronto
with a degree in engineering after serving with the Canadian
Signal Corps (1944-1946). His career took him from work under
the Eisenhower administration in radio technologies, and back
to Canada in engineering consultancy work until 1964. He then
spent 23 years with the firm of McGregor and Associates, retiring
as senior partner to work with the firm of Proctor and Redfern
as senior Vice President until his retirement. He continued working
as an independent engineering consultant until December 2002,
when he completed his last assignment for St. Michael's Hospital
in Toronto. Blake was a member of the Don Mills Civitan Club
and helped found their hockey league; of the Professional Engineers
of Ontario, the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society, the
Royal Canadian Legion, the Royal Canadian Military Institute,
and a range of other professional associations. In 1998, he was
presented with an award for 25 years' service from the Canadian
Standards Association, for whom he had done extensive work in
the medical gas sector, serving on many inquiries and boards
as an expert analyst. He was an active member of the Church of
Our Saviour in Don Mills, and also took great pleasure from such
activities as woodworking, winemaking, fixing pretty much everything
that got broken, and travel with his family. He also took great
satisfaction in maintaining a colourful correspondence with a
wide range of corporate and political thorns in his side. His
family would like to extend warmest thanks to Dr. Sid
FELDMAN,
Dr. Simon YU, the nursing staff of North York General Hospital
(particularly the pastoral support people), as well as the many
Friends who showed such compassion and support as his rapidly-moving
illness emerged and took hold. There will be a visitation at
the Morley Bedford Funeral Home (159 Eglinton Avenue West, 2
lights west of Yonge) Sunday, March 16th from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The funeral will take place at the Morley Bedford Funeral Home
on Monday, March 17th at 11 a.m., with a reception to follow.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Church of Our
Saviour in Don Mills (1 Laurentide Drive, Don Mills, M3A 3C6),
the North York General Hospital 4001 Leslie Street, Toronto,
M2K 1E1), or the charity of your choice.
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Peter DEVINE
By Mary DEVINE
Scholar, athlete, husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather,
friend. Born January 21, 1914, in Ottawa. Died February 2, in
Ottawa, of natural causes, aged 89.
By Mary DEVINE
Thursday,
September 18, 2003 - Page A28
Peter DEVINE was defined by the grocery business he, and his
father before him, operated on York Street in the Byward Market
in Ottawa. Founded in 1911,
DEVINE's was a local institution
until it closed in 1975. In the late 1930s, Peter took over his
father's fledgling business and developed it into Ottawa's premier
grocery establishment. Except for his years of armed service
in Newfoundland during the Second World War, Peter managed his
business 12 hours a day, six (often seven) days a week for almost
40 years. Sixty years before the advent of internet home grocery-shopping,
DEVINE's red trucks, carrying individual orders in wooden boxes,
could be seen making the rounds to 24 Sussex Drive, Rideau Hall,
Parliament Hill, embassies and private clubs, as well as to customers
elsewhere in the city. On most Saturdays and preceding major
holidays, shopping at
DEVINE's was a ritual for generations of
Ottawa families.
While Peter blossomed into a successful merchant, he began his
adult life as a gifted athlete and scholar. When he was just
14, he won the McKinley Trophy, awarded to the best Ottawa junior
tennis player under 16. He continued playing tennis until he
was 80. While earning his B.A. and the Governor General's Medal
at the University of Ottawa in 1934, Peter starred with the local
hockey team. During this time, he was heralded by many as Ottawa's
finest prospect for National Hockey League ranks. After earning
his M.A. in Ottawa in 1936, he began his PhD studies at the University
of Toronto, finding time to centre a Varsity Blues hockey line.
Just a couple of credits shy of his PhD, Peter returned to Ottawa
to attend to his ailing father's business. He continued to play
hockey; his bride-to-be, Aurelia
GRIMES, saved clippings from
Ottawa newspapers which document, for his family today, his "brilliant"
play with the Hull Volant during that time.
Peter and Aurie married in 1940 and raised seven children, living
most of their married life in the Glebe neighbourhood of Ottawa.
Aurie died suddenly of heart failure at age 60 in 1974.
After decades devoted to the grocery business and Aurie's untimely
death, Peter became somewhat philosophical by the mid-1970s.
Rather than sell and risk damaging his reputation at the hands
of a new proprietor, Peter decided to close the store in 1975.
After almost 65 years as a fixture on the Byward Market,
DEVINE's
ceased to exist.
Peter embarked on a new life. He took art appreciation courses
at Carleton University and travelled to Europe to observe first-hand
the paintings reproduced in his text books. He became an avid
gardener in an attempt to learn how the produce he had sold for
40 years was grown. He spent many hours volunteering for the
Canadian Cancer Society, St. Vincent's Hospital and the Ottawa
Food
Bank. In the late 1970s, Peter met Anne
SCHNIEDER/SNIDER/SNYDER who became
his closest companion until his death. In 1981, they established
a new business, Handi-House, to serve disabled customers. After
they sold the business, they travelled extensively.
Peter was renowned for his generosity. In the early 1980s, he
opened his home to a family of five Cambodian refugees who have
since made a successful life for themselves in Canada. His identity
to many outsiders was his commercial success; however, to his
family and close Friends, he was an intensely private, independent
and humble man, a devout Catholic who attended mass virtually
every day of his full life.
Peter's daughter Mary
DEVINE wrote this with help from her siblings:
Gloria, Peter, Patrick, Christopher, Michael and Nancy.
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CAMERON,
Docia
Lorraine
Bennett.
Born April 14, 1917, Russell Springs, Logan County, Kansas; died,
Edmonton, April 16, 2003. Predeceased by her husband Norman S.
CAMERON, sisters Stella and Irene, and brothers Emory, Bill,
Guy, and Ivan. Mourned by daughter Jane
CAMERON,
Toronto, son
Duncan (Yolande
GRISÉ)
Chelsea,
Quebec, her brother Don (Georgie)
LEWISTON,
Idaho, and special Friends Michelle, Kevin and Olivia
TOM,
Penticton,
British
Columbia.
Like her parents Charles and
Mary she was an Alberta pioneer, arriving as a young child in
the farm country in the Forestburg area. Her youth was spent
in the world depression which so affected the prairies; at 22
she witnessed the outbreak of World War 2. Bride of a Naval lieutenant
she lived in Esquimalt, Prince Rupert, Halifax, and Toronto during
the war years. With her husband overseas, she established the
family home in Edmonton until a family move to Vancouver in 1966.
Shortly after Norman died in 1992 she returned to Edmonton. She
was a passionate Canadian, an admirer of her contemporary Pierre
Elliot Trudeau, a lover of good books, gardens, antiques, and
the opera on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. A wonderful story
teller, her sense of humour endeared her to many. She thrived
on lively conversation, good drink, and fine cuisine. Independent
minded, a fierce defender of all those she loved, and a steadfast
opponent of mean spirited governments, she lived her life fully.
In her memory donations may be made to the Parkland Institute,
University of Alberta.
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CARLIN,
Agnes
Kathryn
Died quietly at home surrounded by her family on Sunday, October
12, 2003 at age 56. Agnes is survived by her husband Richard
LATHWELL, her sister Eva
CHIRSTY and her brother Steve
GRISZBACHER.
Resting at the Ogden Funeral Home, 646 St. Clair Avenue West
(West of Bathurst) on Wednesday afternoon from 4-8 p.m. Funeral
Mass on Thursday morning at 11 a.m. in St. Clare Catholic Church
(St. Clair. East of Dufferin). Cremation to follow.
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PRYCE,
Maurice
Henry
Lecorney
Maurice
Henry
Lecorney
PRYCE died at Vancouver, British Columbia,
aged 90. He was a theoretical physicist with very broad interests.
Following a spectacular early career at Cambridge, Oxford, and
Bristol, he spent the second half of his life in the United States
and Canada. Born in Croydon, England, on the 24th of January,
1913, he spent part of his childhood with his French mother in
France where he learned to speak French 'like a Normandy peasant'.
He was always encouraging to his two younger brothers, and fond
of risky experiments such as using a magneto to fire a small
cannon loaded with home-made gunpowder. Educated at the Royal
Grammar School in Guildford he entered Trinity College, Cambridge,
in 1930, graduating in 1933 and continuing to do research there
initially with Sir Ralph Fowler and subsequently with the Nobel
laureate Max Born. He spent two years as a Commonwealth Fund
Fellow at Princeton University in 1935-7 before returning to
Cambridge as a Fellow of Trinity College. During this period
in Cambridge he made outstanding contributions to the so-called
''New Field Theory'' proposed by Born and Infeld. He also wrote
an incisive paper demolishing the then fashionable idea that
light quanta might consist of pairs of neutrinos. Paul Dirac,
then one of the most influential theoretical physicists, was
so impressed (which was a very rare occurrence) that he spontaneously
offered to communicate the work to The Royal Society. Maurice
PRYCE later remarked that this was the high-point of his scientific
life. In 1939 he was appointed to a Readership in Theoretical
Physics at Liverpool University, and married Margarete
(GRITLI)
BORN. At the advent of war he joined the team working on radar
at the Admiralty Signal Establishment, and in 1944 transferred
to the Joint Atomic Energy Project in Montreal. In 1945 he returned
to his fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge, and a university
lectureship, but was soon invited to become Wykeham Professor
of Physics at Oxford, a chair which had recently been earmarked
for a theoretical physicist after the long tenure of Sir John
Townsend. It was a bold appointment for someone aged only 32,
who looked even younger than his years. At Oxford he rapidly
acquired a large group of research students, many returning from
war service, several of whom were to become very distinguished
in their fields. His interests and knowledge spread across many
branches of physics, and students were put to work on widely
ranging topics stretching from field theory, the nuclear shell
model, liquid helium, to solid state physics. Maurice
PRYCE became
most directly involved in interpreting the magnetic properties
of atoms which were being studied in great detail through the
paramagnetic resonance techniques by Brebis Bleaney and his colleagues
in the Clarendon Laboratory. Almost half his published work relates
to this area where he elucidated in detail the interaction between
the magnetic electrons and the lattice (the crystal field), the
effective lattice dynamics (the Jahn-Teller effect) and interaction
with the nucleus (hyperfine structure). He also added considerably
to the understanding of the magnetic properties of atoms in the
actinide series, including the newly discovered transuranics.
During his time in Oxford he took sabbatical leave to spend a
year as Visiting Professor at Princeton. On his return he acted
as the part-time head of the theoretical physics division at
the nearby Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, where
he replaced the previous head, Klaus Fuchs, who was arrested
in 1950 and convicted on a charge of spying. In 1951 Maurice
PRYCE was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. In 1954, frustrated
by the constraints of his position and in particular by the autocratic
management of Lord Cherwell, he accepted an invitation to succeed
Nevill Mott as Henry Overton Wills Professor of Physics at the
University of Bristol. With greater administrative duties as
head of the department he had less time to develop his research
group but he continued with the subjects that he had begun at
Oxford. His first marriage had broken down, and he married Freda
KINSEY in 1961. He then accepted a tempting offer by the University
of Southern California, and moved there in 1964, with the promise
of resources to build up, essentially from scratch, a first class
physics department. The reality turned out to be less attractive
than he had hoped. In 1968 he moved again to a chair at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver where he was to remain until
his death, on the 24th of July 2003. During these later years
his main contributions were in the quite different field of astrophysics,
although others, on molecular photoionisation and on the properties
of the hydroxyl radical, continued to display his versatility
and his wide understanding of physics. This knowledge was greatly
valued by his colleagues who would rely on a critical appraisal
of their work and its interpretation. But he did not suffer fools
gladly and was a harsh critic; in a seminar, he could devastate
the speaker and embarrass the audience with his acerbic comments.
He also continued his interest in atomic energy derived from
his wartime work and was latterly a member of the Technical Advisory
Committee to the Atomic Energy of Canada Limited with a particular
interest on nuclear fuel waste management. Some of his last work
related to the questions of the safety of deposit of radioactive
materials in geological structures. Maurice
PRYCE was a keen
walker and camper and, in younger days, a dinghy sailor. He was
a competent pianist and liked to relax by playing classical music,
mainly Bach and Mozart. He was a good cook, which stood him in
good stead when entertaining Friends and family after his second
wife died in 1990. He inherited from his father a love and knowledge
of gardening, which he passed on to all four of his children.
He always kept a boyish liking for silly games, from elaborate
sandcastles on the beach to noisy card games on the living room
floor. Until ill health stopped him, he was a skilful Scrabble
player. He created a family tradition, perhaps characteristic
of his personal philosophy, of Collaborative Scrabble -- the
main aim is, within the rules, to maximize the overall score
rather than to beat the other players. The mathematical gene
has also passed on to his son John, well known in his field of
mathematical software engineering; and
to John's son Nathaniel,
a professional software engineer. The last 14 years of his life
he spent in the company of his great friend Eileen
GOLDBERG,
the widow of a South African lawyer who had been active in the
fight against apartheid. They shared their love of music, literature,
and walks in the woods. In December, 1997, he was incapacitated
by an osteoporosis-induced bone fracture and subsequent infection,
and spent his last five years at the University Hospital in Vancouver,
visited daily by Eileen. During this period his mind was unaffected,
and he bore immobility and frequent pain with patience, courage
and a sense of humour, remaining in exemplary good spirits throughout.
He is survived by his son, John, and three daughters, Sylvia,
Lois and Suki, all from his first marriage.
Copyright: Roger Elliott and John Sanders/The Independent, London.
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