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a a a a a a a a a a THEADAILY TELEGRAPH THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1994 21 COURT AND SOCIAL Court Circular BUCKINGHAM PALACE February 23rd The Prince Edward, Trustee, this morning attended The Duke of Edinburgh's Award Finance and Administration Committee ing at Hobart House, Grosvenor Place, London SW1. YORK HOUSE ST JAMES'S PALACE February 23rd The Duchess of Kent this morning visited Mother Theresa's Missionaries of Charity, Seal Street, Liverpool, Merseyside and was met on arrival by Her Majesty's Lord-Lieutenant for Merseyside (Mr Alan Waterworth). Her Royal Highness later opened the Liverpool Marie Curie Centre, Speke Road, Woolton, Liverpool. The Duchess of Kent this afternoon visited the Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Eaton Road, Liverpool and later opened Mayfield Home for the Disabled, Yeomen's Way, Liverpool, Merseyside. Mrs Richard Beckett was in attendance.

The Prince of Wales will visit the Body Shop headquarters in Watersmead, Littlehampton, West Sussex, on March 8. FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES Mr R.J. Light Miss V.C. Campbell The engagement is announced between Robin, only son of the late Commander A.J. Light, RN, and of Hincks and Hincks, of Hampshire, stepson of Colonel, A.D.

of Mr. and Mrs Alistair and Vicky, younger daughter Campbell, of Bath. Mr P.J. Hearn Miss J.E.C. c.

Parkin The engagement is announced between Paul Joseph, youngest son of Lt-Col and Mrs Patrick Hearn, of Oxford, and "Julia Elizabeth Caroline, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael John Parkin, of Corfe Mullen, Dorset. Mr C.M. Cooper and Miss A.T. Campbell The engagement is announced and the marriage will take place quietly between Colin, elder son of Mr Gerald Cooper, of Balcombe, West Sussex, and Mrs P.G. Hunt, of London, SW3, and Anna, youngest daughter of Lt-Col and 1 Mrs Ralph Campbell, of Stockland, Mr S.P.

Anderson and Miss C.A. Forsyth The engagement is announced between Sean, son of Dr Patrick Anderson, of Caversham, Berkshire, and Mrs Sallyann Anderson, of London, and stepson of Mrs Celia Anderson, Christine, daughter of of of of of of of of Mr and Mrs Michael Forsyth, of Sydney, Australia. Mr M.C.W. Webb and Miss S.C. Ferguson The engagement is announced between eldest son of Dr and Mrs J.N.

Webb, of Edinburgh, and Sheila, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs B. Ferguson, of Toronto. Mr M.K. Tubb and Miss D.L. Godfrey The engagement is announced between Martyn Keith, only son of Mr and Mrs G.J.

Tubb, of Barkingside, Essex, and Donna Louise, youngest daughter of Mr and Mrs W.F. Godfrey, Ponteland, Northumberland. Mr J.H.B. Chancellor and Miss C.L. Carvill The engagement is announced between James, eldest son of Mr and Mrs Antony Chancellor, of Cheddon Fitzpaine, Somerset, and Caron, daughter of Mr and Mrs Jack Carvill, of St Andrews, Guernsey.

Mr A.D. Cooke and Miss A.J. Jordan The engagement is announced between Andrew, son of Mr and Mrs R.C. Cooke, of Stanwell, Middlesex, and Mandy, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs R.J. Jordan, Weybridge, Surrey.

Mr P.R.A. Shone and Miss M.J. Clark The engagement is announced between Peter, son of Mr and Mrs Anthony Shone, of West Kirby, Wirral, Melanie, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Clark, of Freckenham, Suffolk. Mr R.J. Grant and Miss C.R.P.

Robeson The engagement is announced between Richard, elder son Mr and Mrs William Grant, of Morayshire, Catherine, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Paul Robeson, of Dial Post, West Sussex. Mr W.S.S. Roques and Miss F.J. Gross The engagement is announced between William, younger son of and Mrs Wilfred Roques, of Northwood, Middlesex, and Fiona, younger daughter of Mr and Mrs John Gross, of Eastcote, Middlesex. Mr K.J.

Dundas and Miss E.J. Ede The engagement is announced from San Francisco between Kevin, son of Mr and Mrs A. Dundas, of Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, and Elizabeth, daughter of Mr and Mrs B. Ede, of Chipstead, Surrey. Mr P.M.

St. Pier and Miss C.P. Worsley The engagement is announced between Philip Mark, elder son of Mr and Mrs Colin St. Pier, of Westcott, Surrey, and Caroline Patricia, eldest daughter of Mr and Mrs Richard Worsley, of North Cerney, Gloucestershire. Mr J.

Roberts and Miss L.J. Stirling The engagement is announced between James, son late David Denby Roberts, Law Hill, Trinity Gask, Auchterarder, and of Mrs Cameron Buchanan, Edinburgh, and Lisa, daughter of Mr and Mrs Ian Stirling, Dickmontlaw, Arbroath. WEDDING Mr P. Kinnersley and Mrs M. Y.

Rolfe Smith The marriage took place on Feb 12 in Scotland between Mr Philip Kinnersley and Mrs. Yvonne Rolfe Smith. TODAY'SEVENTS The Queen Mother, attends a Royal Lancers (Prince of Wales's) regimental reception in St James's Palace, evening. Queen's Life Guard mounts, Horse Guards 11am; Queen's Guard mounts, Buckingham Palace, 11.30am. British, Library; The Luttrell Psalter, 11am; Jonathan Swift: no country for old men, 2.50pm Theatres -P14 NEWS OBITUARIES San Ldr Frank McKenna Sir Henry Taylor SQUADRON LEADER Frank Kenna, who has died aged tracked down almost all the Gestapo officers responsible for the murder 50 British prisoners-of-war after "Great Escape" of 1944 from Silesia.

When news of the murders reached Whitehall, Anthony the Foreign Secretary, announced that Government "was resolved these foul criminals shall be tracked down to the He added: "When the war over they will be brought to plary McKenna, a squadron leader the Special Investigation Branch, was sent out to Germany September 1945 to fulfil Eden's pledge. spoke little German and was panied by just one flight sergeant. Three months into a massive mation-sifting process he was sent more sergeants and 12 interpreters. At first McKenna knew only the PoWs had been shot on Hitler's orders after tunnelling out of camp, and that, to deter escapes, their ashes had been ered to Stalag Luft III in 46 urns four boxes. Gradually he established that of the murders followed a pattern: captured PoW would be driven towards the camp by Gestapo cers, ordered out of the car to himself, and shot in the back of head.

The Gestapo then fabricated elaborate accounts to show the oners had been shot "trying Possibly McKenna's most remarkable coup was to hunt down Schulz, a former Gestapo alleged to have shot one of the officers near He arrested and extradited Schulz in course of a single day. By talking to former Gestapo cer being held in London, McKenna had obtained a description of a of flats in which Schulz had lived. traced the building, only to that Schulz had moved to the of Frankenholz. Here McKenna found his wife, living alone, and a search of her house discovered letter written on paper from a French prison camp. At the camp he identified masquerading as "Ernst and arranged his immediate tion.

Schulz was executed a year a half later. Altogether McKenna arrested former Gestapo officers. A few mitted suicide before being tried, most were convicted of murder imprisoned or executed. Frank McKenna was born Blackpool on Feb 28, 1906, and cated at the Sacred Heart School. BARBARA WILLARD, who has died aged 84, was one of the best children's storytellers of modern times, and won the Guardian award for The Iron Lily (1974) and the Whitbread Award for The Queen of the Pharisees' Children (1984).

Many of her books were historical stories: "The past can seem a burden to she once wrote, "an irrelevance to be shuffled off, leaving the present unencumbered for others the past is the parent of today and as such powerful, wise, instructive." These words come from the concluding chapter of The Forest: Ashdown in East Sussex, Willard's evocative history of Ashdown Forest, which contains a moving description of the great storm of October 1987. The forest inspired many of her books, including the Mantlemass series, perhaps her finest achievement. The series comprises eight novels, which chronicle the lives of successive generations of the Mallory and Medley families, tenants of the manor farm of Mantlemass from the Wars of the Roses and the defeat of Charles I. Barbara Willard was born on March 12, 1909. Her father was a celebrated actor-manager, her cousins LOUIS STEPHENSON, the Jamaican altowho has died aged 86, came to public attention as one of the black musicians who played at West End "bottleparty clubs" in the 1930s.

Black jazz was then something of a novelty in London, and as well as catering for aficionados of the new style, the clubs were frequented by top-hatted swells and women swathed in furs who came, as Stephenson recalled, "to gaze at the Such an ambience was anathema to Stephenson, who opposed prejudice whenever he encountered it. But the clubs did boast an informal atmosphere in which dance-band musicians could throw off their shackles and improvise. Stephenson was not a soloist, but an accomplished musician and a great jazz enthusiast -he particularly loved the playing of the tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins. Stephenson also had the distinction of playing with the jazz giants Eddie South, Benny Carter and Rex Stuart. He earned a place in the discographies of the last two.

The son of a shopkeeper, Louis George Alexander Stephenson was born in June 1907 at St Anne's Bay, Jamaica, and received a musical training in the band of the West Indies Regiment. The Regiment, formed by the British government after CHESS Third Amber Tournament line-up is unveiled By Malcolm Pein The Duke of Kent, Patron, will visit the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Museum, Church Road, SW19, on March 10. TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS Lord. Hazlerigg is 84; Mr. David Langdon, cartoonist and illustrator, 80; Mr C.H.

(Harry) Urwin, trades unionist, 79; Earl Kitchener of Khartoum 75; Sir Frank Rogers, Deputy Chairman, The Telegraph, plc, Chairman, Newspaper Publishers Association, and Chairman, European Publishers Council, 74; Admi Sir William Pillar, LieutenantGovernor and C-in-C of Jersey, 1985-90, 70; Dr Lionel Dakers, Director, Royal School of Church Music, 1972-89, 70; Mr Reginald Freeson, Labour ment Minister, 68; Mr Peter Owen, publisher, 67; Mr Brian Close, former England cricket captain, 63; Mr Denis Law, former Scotland footballer, 54; Mr Paul Jones, actor and singer, 52; Mr Justice Blackburne 50; Lord Melchett, conservationist, Mr Dennis Waterman, actor, 46; John Lever, former England cricketer, 45; Mr Derek Randall, cricketer, 43; the Marquess of Normanby, writer, 40; and Mr Alain Prost, four-times world motor racing champion, 39. APPOINTMENTS IN THE CHURCH Recent appointments include: Revv Anderson, tv, Saltash: to be P- Breoke Egloshayle, Truro; Baker, Cromer: to be p-in-c, All Saints, St Margaret, Pakefield, Norwich; Barron, Hendon, Sunderland, Durham: to be p-in- Ushaw Moor, Durham; A Boggust, asst (nsm), St Mary, Hook-w-Warsash: to be asst (nsm), St John, Locksheath, Portsmouth; Bourne, Allington St Nicholas: to be Marden St Michael All Angels, Canterbury; Brack, St John, Bethnal Green: to be asst parish priest, St Barnabas St Paul, West Haekney, London. Revv Bradbury, Pattingham Patshull: to be Tipton, St Mark, Ocker Hill, Lichfield; Brendon-Cook, asst (nsm), Cardynham Helland: to be p- in-c, (nsm), Helland, Truro; A Brownridge, Boyton, North Tamerton, Werrington St Heath and Virginstow: to be also Rural Dean of Trigg Major (Truro); Burlton, Ch to Heathrow Airport and P-in-c, Harmondsworth: to be St Buryan, St Levan and Sennen (Truro); Butterworth, Team Rector, Bridgnorth Team Ministry, whose appointment as Residentiary Canon at Hereford Cathedral has already been announced: also Prebendary de Nonnington of Hereford Cathedral; Canon Malcolm Byrom, Kenwyn St Allen: to be Chairman of the Truro Diocesan Stewardship Committee. Revv Cotton, Stewkley Soulbury and Drayton Parslow: to be also Rural Dean of Mursley (Oxford); Elson, Rector, Pulham Market Pulham St Mary, P-in-c, Starston: now also Diocesan Officer responsibility for nonstipendiary ministers (Norwich); John Fellows, Asst (NSM), St Cuthbert, Copnor: to be Asst (NSM), St Andrew, and the Church of the Resurrection, Farlington (Portsmouth); Fuller, Rector, Stoke Climsland: now P-in-c, Lezant (Truro); William Glazebrook, Broughton Poges Filkins, Broadwell w. Kelmscott, Kencot, Langford and Little Faringdon (Oxford): to retire as from March 31; Jenkin, Canvey Island Team Ministry (Chelmsford): to be Team Rector, Melton Mowbray Team Ministry (Leicester); Jones, Rector, St Michael's, Tilehurst: to be Ch of the Costa Blanca, Spain.

Revv Angela Marshall, recently Parish Deacon, St George's, Newcastleunder-Lyme (Lichfield): to be Deacon in the Chaplaincy of St Mark's, Versailles, France; I Morris, Rector, Camelford: to be also Rural Dean of Trigg Minor and Bodmin (Truro); Neal, Vicar, St Erth: to be also P-in-c, Phillack Gwithian and Gwinear (Truro); Nixon, Vicar, Goring South Stoke: to be also Rural Dean of Henley (Oxford); Pate, Asst Farmborough (Rochester): to be Stipendiary Asst Broxbourne Wormley (St Albans); Phillips, Asst Wareham (Salisbury): to be Stipendiary Curate, Chipping Barnet Arkley (St Albans). Revv John Sadler, Vicar, St Philip and St Augustine, Newcastle: to be P. in-c, St John the Evangelist, Kingston Park, Newcastle, the Epiphany Team Ministry (Newcastle); Dr Sewell, Ulverston St Mary Holy Trinity (Carlisle): to be Asst Ch, Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust (Truro). LUNCHEONS Prime Minister The Prime Minister was host at a luncheon held yesterday at 10 Downing Street in honour of Mr Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan. The other guests were: Mr Hassan Hassanov, the Ambassador of Azerbaijan, Mr Vafa Gulizada, Mr Gabil Guseynli, Mr Yusif Samedoglu, Mr Eldar Salayev, the Hon Douglas Hogg, QC, MP, Mr Timothy Eggar, MP, Sir James Spicer, MP, Sir Norman Wooding, Mr Bruce George, MP, Mr Michael Colvin, MP, Mr Allan Gormly, MP, Mr Michael Davies, Mr Elwyn Eilledge, Mr John Craven, Mr Fraser Morrison, Mr Stephen Remp, Mr Basil Butler, Mr Alan Liddle, Mr David Stott, Mr Rodney Chase, Mr Peter Gershon, Mr Carl Rolaston, Mr Michael Armitage, Mr Graham Morrey, Mr Roger Bone, Mr Tom Young, Mr Brian Willott and Miss Philippa Leslie-Jones.

Carlton Club Sir Christopher Prout, QC, MEP, Leader of the Conservatives, European Parliament, was of and speaker at a luncheon held by the Political Committee of the Carlton Club yesterday at the Club. Mr Giles Chichester, Chairman of the Committee, presided and the Earl of Stockton also spoke. SERVICE DINNERS Yeoman Warders Mr N. Jackson, Chief Yeoman Warder, presided at the annual dinner of the Body of Yeoman Warders held last night at HM Tower of London. The principal guests were: The High Commissioner for New Zealand, the Duke of Wellington, Field Sir John Stanier, Gen Sir Peter Inge, Vic Sir Geoffrey Dalton, Gen Sir Napier Crookenden, Lt-Gen Sir Robert Richardson, Lt-Gen R.J.

Ross, Maj-Gen M.C.M. Steele, Maj-Gen C. Tyler, Lt-Col E.R. Pitchforth, M. Taylor, Messenger Sergeant Major A.

Dumon and Mr Guy Woodford. Manchester and Salford Universities Air Squadron Air Vice-Marshal J.S. Allison, AOC No 11 Group, RAF Strike Command, was guest of honout at the annual dinner of the Manchester and Salford Universities Squadron last night in the Officers' Mess, Altcar Training Camp. Sqn Ldr R.J. Pickering presided.

DINNER Her Majesty's Government The Hon Douglas Hogg, QC, MP, Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, at a dinner held by Her Majesty's Government last night at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in honour of Mr Heydar Aliyev, President of Azerbaijan. Mc87, the Stalag Eden, firmly last is exem- with He accom- infor12 that the further delivand most a back offirelieve the pristo official RAF found, the offi- block He discover village after a nearby Schulz, extradiand 26 combut and at eduHe McKenna: hunted Gestapo then joined the local police. On the outbreak of Second World War he volunteered for the armed forces, but was rebuffed because he was in a reserved occupation. When restrictions were eased to allow police officers to volunteer for aircrew training McKenna was accepted, and between 1942 and 1943 he flew 30 operations over Germany as a Lancaster bomber flight engineer in No 15 Squadron. Towards the end of the war he was posted to Edinburgh as deputy provost marshal, but soon obtained transfer to the Special Investigation Branch.

McKenna was appointed OBE in 1947, and the next year left the RAF to return to Blackpool as acting inspector. In later years hen worked at Blackpool as a part-time security consultant. McKenna was married and had two sons. Barbara Willard and brothers actors, and after education at a convent school young Barbara herself attempted a stage career. But she soon turned her hand to writing, and in 1930 published Love in Ambush, a novel for adults.

1957 Epworth published Snail and the Pennithornes, her first book for children. Four years later she came under the wing of Grace Hogarth at Constable and published The House With Roots. Her writing career took off and over the next 35 years she published more than 60 novels, plays, anthologies, topographies and local histories. For a while her well-crafted historical novels fell out of fashion; but they are now being rediscovered. Willard served as a forest conservator for many years and lived beside Ashdown Forest in an 18th-century which she shared cottage, lifelong companion Frances Howell.

Willard's enthusiasms were reflected in her writing; she loved the theatre, Shakespeare, poetry, gardening, her the preparation of a good meal. Willard was never afraid to raise her voice against perceived injustice. She worked almost to the end of her life, and leaves an uncompleted story about a foundling child. SIR HENRY TAYLOR, the former Acting Governor-General of the Bahamas who has died aged 90, was a prime mover of Bahamian constitutional reform. In 1953 Taylor co-founded and organised the black Progressive Liberal Party.

He visited every inhabited island in the Bahamas to drum up support for the PLP, and estaband organised than 60 branches of the party. Within three years its membership exceeded 3,000, and within 30 months it had six elected members in the Legislature. Taylor spent 10 years as the PLP's chairman, and was then voted honorary chairman for life. But he was not re-selected for his constituency in the elections of 1962 and, opposed a by a radical segment of the PLP, was denied a seat in the Senate (the equivalent of the House of Lords). Angry and hurt, he joined the United Bahamian Party (formed three years after the PLP) and was instrumental in having the party's platform and constitution revised The UBP contained many "Bay Street Boys" rich white merchants and held majority status in parliament.

As a result of Taylor's labours, the first written Bahamian constitution was received in 1964, a and approved by both the British government and the Bahamian legislature. Taylor was presented with a medallion for effecting the first constitutional change in 225 years. Henry Milton Taylor was born on Nov 4, 1903, and adopted by Joseph and Evelyn Taylor of Long Island, one of the 700 islands which make up the Bahamas. Early in his life he converted to Roman Catholicism and in the 1930s led the establishment of the Bahamian Catholic Church. His first job, in 1925, was as headmaster of a school on Acklins Island.

In 1940 Taylor won a seat to represent Long Island and Ragged Island, having competed, with no financial backing, against candidates who could use, as he said, "motor cars, planes, money bags, food and rum' to obtain votes. In 1954 he became the first director of the blood bank of the Princess Margaret Hospital in Nassau, and organised a "gallon club" to encourage blood donors. Two years later he was instrumental in having Lynden Pindling elected parliamentary leader, and eventually prime minister. In 1960 Taylor led a delegation to confer with Ian McLeod, then Secretary of State for Colonies, and to press for voting rights for Bahamian women, a goal achieved two years later. Taylor was humble, and could often be seen outside his little Willard: stories for children Louis Stephenson band gave concerts in England on such occasions as Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee celebrations, and in 1924, with the trumpeters Leslie Hutchinson and Leslie the Wembley Exhibition.

Thompson, they, played at Stephenson returned to Jamaica, where he played with local dance-bands and orchestras accompanying showings of silent films. In the early 1930s he sailed to Canada as a steward on a luxury liner. When he and other black stewards were barred from a Toronto night club on the grounds that they were "improperly Stephenson urged them all to make an issue of it by returning the following night in full evening dress. Back in England in 1934 he appeared at such night spots as The Nest in Kingly Street, Jig's Club in St Anne's Court and the Cuba, Gerrard Street (where he played with the drummer Happy Blake). Two years later Stephenson was a member of Leslie Thompson's All-Coloured Old Florida Club, a night-spot in Mayfair.

Their conductor was Ken "Snakehips" Johnson, who took most of the Thompson personnel with him to the he led at the de Paris. Stephenson, angry that his old friend Thompson had been manoeuvred out of his own band, refused to join Johnson. It was a fortuitous wooden house on Shirley Street, Nassau, in vest and trousers. A popu- Taylor (1976): reformer lar hero, he was also the first Bahamian to be presented to the Queen she visited the Bahapoliticians mas, and was knighted in 1980. After the dissolution of the UBP, Lynden Pindling, then Prime Minister, invited Taylor to the Silver Jubilee Convention of the PLP and presented him with a gold medallion co-founding the Party, and for being one of the most energetic fighters against racial segregation in the Bahamas.

Taylor rejoined the PLP and was appointed the first editor of the Bahamian In July 1981, he was made Deputy Governor-General while the Governor-General, Sir Gerald Cash, was attending Prince Charles's wedding in London. On the retirement of Sir Gerald in 1988, Taylor became Acting Governor This appointment, although richly deserved, was greeted with some astonishment. Aged 84 and in poor health, Taylor walked with a stick through ceremonial occasions. In December 1989 a Bahamian newspaper begged that he should be of performing in such a physically demanding job; it was fair neither to him nor to the people. "He deserves it declared.

"He fought for the cause of the masses with dignity. That much should never be Taylor retired in January 1992. He was twice married, had four daughters first hand Elliot Gordon Perry ELLIOT GORDON PERRY, who has died aged 84, underwent a remarkable operation as a boy of 11, in which an oxbone prepared by the surgeon Sir Ernest Hey Groves in his own kitchen was grafted into the right arm (which had been broken three times) without the aid of antibiotics or modern bone screws. He subsequently won the shotput for Cambridge against Oxford. Perry served as a missionary in India during the 1930s, and in the 1940s served with the Gurkha Rifles in Assam, Italy and Greece.

He left the Army in 1955 to become assistant master at Ludgrove School. From 1961. to 1974 he was headmaster of Old Quarries, a preparatory school for boys with learning difficulties. His eldest son, David Perry, captained the England Rugby XV in the 1965 Five Nations championship. Erica Wallach.

In Virginia aged 71. Born in Germany, she fled with her family for Spain in 1935, and served during the Civil War as a nurse on the Republican side. After Franco's victory she was interned, then rescued by an official of the League of Nations and given refuge in Switzerland. After Second World War she thorked for a year in Germany for the OSS (forerunner of the CIA) and then for the Communist Party. In 1950 she was arrested in East Berlin.

Two years later she was condemned to death as a spy, but after the death of Stalin her sentence was commuted to 15 years in a Siberian labour camp. Her life has been the subject of a documentary, a play and an autobiography, Light at Midnight. Charles Walter Maxwell-Stuart. Aged 80. Scion of the House of Stuart and descendant of the Jacobite pretenders.

According to legend the gates were locked at his ancestral home, Traquair House, after the flight of Bonny Prince Charlie, and will not be reopened until a Stuart ascends the throne. Educated at Ampleforth in the 1920s; subsequently, as Father Walter, taught at the College, where he became a housemaster, until 1988. Secretary of the Ampleforth Beagles from 1941. Joe Eggeling. Aged 84.

Botanist and ornithologist. Chief conservator of forests, Uganda 1945-50, Tanganyika 1950-54. Deputy director Nature Conservancy (Scotland) 1956-68; Director 1968- 70. President Scottish Ornithologists Club 1966-69. Vice- President Scottish Wildlife Trust.

CBE 1970. Discovered the tree orchid Eggelingania. Sir Willis Combs. Aged 77. Ambassador to Indonesia 1970- 75.

Born in Melbourne and educated in New Zealand, he entered the Foreign Office in 1947 after service in the Second World War. Posted to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Peking and before becoming Diplomatic Service Inspector in 1963. Counsellor in Rangoon 1965 and Under-Secretary of State at FCO in London 1968. CMG 1962. KCV0 1974.

Evelyn Venable. In Idaho aged 80. Hollywood ingenue who was believed to be the model for Columbia Pictures' statuesque logo. Films included Cradle Song, Death Takes a Holiday and Pinocchio, in which she was the voice of the Blue Fairy. Subsequently taught at the University of California.

The Association Max Euwe, headed by the Dutch chess sponsor, van Oosterom, has announced the line up for the Third Amber Tournament, a unique mix of blindfold and speed chess. The event is named after van Oosterom's daughter Melody Amber and no bringing expense a world class spared field to has been in the Metropole Hotel in Monaco. commence on March 26 with the closing ceremony on April 7. The prize fund will be $107,250 The format will be as last year. The GMs play one rapid game blindfold with 30 minutes each on the clock and then another rapid game with sight of the board and colours reversed.

The games will be played with the electronic Fischer Clock which credits the players with 10 seconds each time they make a move. Nigel Short participated in 1993 but was terribly distracted by the negotiations surrounding his world championship match against Kasparov and he finished bottom of the field. This year Short's place has been taken by John Nunn. The full up is: Anand (India), Ivanchuk (Ukraine), Kamsky (USA), Karpov (Russia), Korchnoi (Switzerland), Ljubojevic (Spain), Nunn (England), I Piket (Netherlands), Polgar (Hungary), Polugavsky (France), Seirawan (USA). Polgar is reserve.

The tournament will be a double round all-play-all. The 11th Bermuda Open attracted a strong field this year. Alexander Ivanov and Andrew Soltis, both of the USA, emerged joint winners, conceding just one draw in their five games to finish on points, half a point clear of the chasing who included Arthur Bisguier and Dmitry Gurevich. Speed games were used to break ties and Alexander Ivanov was declared the winner overall. Several English amateur players made the trip, but failed to make the list.

David Pritchard scored 3 points and Elaine Pritchard Global Asset Management Bermuda Open final scores (USA unless stated): A Ivanov Soltis Gurevich, Meyer, Bisguier, Curdo, Salman, Epp, Moffat (Canada) Byrne, Farleigh (Bermuda), Strenzwilk, Scott Harris Nick Faulks of England despatches an American master with the sharp Vienna Gambit in the following game. The white king runs to the queenside but is perfectly safe throughout. Faulks Shapiro Vienna Gambit I e4 e5 2 Nc3 Nc6 3f4 exf4 4 d4 Qh4 5 Ke2 6 Bg4 7 exd5 0-0-0 8 dxc6 Re8 9 Kd3 B15 10 Kc4 Qe7 11 a3 Be6 12 d5 Rd8 13 cxb7 Kb8 14 Kb3 15 Bc4 1-0 Shapiro 8 3 6 5 3 2 2 3 a Faulks In a first must Black's vented black position move. I d4 3 N13 5 Bg2 7 Nc3 9 RbI Nxd4 I I I 13 Bf4 15 Nxc5 17 N5a4 19f4 2115 23 Nc5 25 27 Bxe8 29 Kg2 31 g4 33 Kxg4 35 Kh5 0-1 Final position key game that secured prize for Soltis, Byrne have overlooked 29th move which prethe recapture of the knight. In the final mate follows next decision: in 1941 a bomb de Marche Paris, killing many of the clientele and Johnson himself.

Stephenson joined the multi-national band led by the black American Benny Carter, which included the British trombonist George Chisholm and Stephenson's fellow Jamaican Bertie King on saxophone. The band lived and worked in Holland, where they made four much- 78-rpm recordings. In Amsterdam Stephenson also played with Eddie South, a Louisianian billed as "the Black Angel of the Stephenson returned to Britain in 1939 and two years later joined the RAF. although he continued to make nocturnal forays into Soho for jamming sessions. After the war he returned to the London club Later he scenengage.

ments hard to come by, and took on other work, such as cutting cards for Soho gamblers. A brief foray into greyhound racing left him in debt, and in 1952 he took a factory job, playing saxophone in his spare time. He continued to appear at London clubs until 1970. Stephenson was a gentle and genial man. He took an interest in musicians young and old, and happily listened to the latest sounds provided the drumming wasn't too loud.

Byrne A Soltis Bermuda Open King's Indian Nf6 2 c4 d6 g6 4 g3 Bg7 0-0 6 0-0 Nbd7 e5 8 e4 c6 a6 10 b4 exd4 Re8 12 Nb3 Qc7 Ne5 14 c5 dxc5 Nh5 16 Bcl b6 Bg4 1813 Be6 Rad8 20 Qc2 Nc4 Bc8 22 Ne2 b5 gxf5 24 exf5 Qe5 Nf6 26 Bxc6 Ng4 Nxf2 28 Bd7 Nh3 Rxd7! 30 Nxd7 Bxd7 h5 32 Kxh3 hxg4 Qxh2 34 Bf4 Qg2 Qh3 36 Kg5 f6 Soltis Stephenson: saxophonist the abolition of slavery, was run by the War Office with British bandmasters, and their uniforms were modelled on those worn by the Zouaves of French North Africa: white tunics, socks and spats, black trousers with gold lining, crimson and gold waistcoats and headgear, and black boots. The 8 6 5 2 3 2 3 2 a Byrne Position after Black played 36.