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THE DAILY TELEGRAPH MONDAY APRIL 3 1995 21 NEWS OBITUARIES WAY OF THE WORLD COURT AND SOCIAL CourtfJiiCtrctUar Dame Lucie Rie AUBERON WAUGH Fit the crime THE debate about the origins of delinquency among the young whether their criminality is caused by poverty unemployment natural viciousness or (as the Government tends to think) by having single parents has been overtaken in recent weeks by the debate about what we should actually do with them It is true that crime has risen in almost exactly the same proportion as the greater prevalence of single parent families but the rise in hamburger consumption in England and Wales to its new peak of 987 million per year has followed precisely the same curve and nobody has dared suggest that the three might be connected Perhaps some clue to the way Government plans to treat the problem may be seen on the island of Portland Dorset recently evacuated of its 4000-odd residents so that an unexploded German bomb could be defused The Young Offenders Institute on the island was evacuated of its 800 pigs 150 cattle and its flock of sheep all thought essential to the happiness of its young offenders but the young offenders themselves were left When they complained about staying behind to be blown up they were promised a hamburger each if they behaved themselves What is going on? Does Mr Howard the responsible minister know what he is doing? He has already presided over the greatest hamburger expansion in history along with the crime and illegitimacy explosions A new hazard is revealed in an article on sewage problems in the current issue of New Scientist: fat deposits building up in some of London's sewers are a peculiarly new problem stemming from burger joints and other fast food outlets Leicester Square and Piccadilly are among the worst fat spots For now the flushers have to go down and dig it out by hand It's like concrete it's the worst job these guys have to says Chris Bosher of Thames Water research Would it not make sense if young offenders instead of being given hamburgers at the public expense were sent down the sewers to clean up some of the mess they are making in this country? BUCKINGHAM PALACE I April 1st The Prince Edward Patron this morning left Royal Air Force Northolt to attend a Concert given by the London Mozart Players supported by the British Council in the British Consulate-General Istanbul Turkey Lieutenant Colonel Sean O'D-m wyer is in attendance KENSINGTON PALACE April 1st The Duchess of Gloucester Patron the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (Cot Death Research) this morning attended the Annual National Conference at City University Northampton Square London ECU Mrs Euan McCorquodale was in attendance YORK HOUSE April 1st The Duke of Kent President the Commonwealth War Graves Commission this afternoon left Colombo Airport for Islamabad to inspect war graves in Pakistan Mr Nicolas Adamson was in attendance BUCKINGHAM PALACE April 2nd The Prince Edward this evening arrived at Royal Air Force Northolt from Istanbul Turkey Lieutenant Colonel Sean O'Dwyer was in attendance when her bowls were selling for more than £5000 and a vase fetched £14500 She continued to insist that her pieces were designed for everyday use Even in her late eighties she rose for work at five in the morning and produced more than 300 pieces a year A tiny woman with a formal manner and a ready smile she tied weights round her feet when she was alone to make sure that she did not fall into the kiln She lived for 50 years in her mews house where she received a constant stream of visitors I she said I don't But mostly I like them People who like pots are usually She would ply visitors with home-made cakes and coffee served in her own vessels chocolate and rock cake said her friend Cyril Frankel a ceramics expert at Bonham's a touch of marmalade here a sliver of ginger there are as varied as her Rie usually dressed in white and though she produced beautifully coloured glazes confessed that she liked white pots best The fashion designer Issey Miyake came across Rie's work in the 1980s and used the ceramic buttons she had created during the war in his 1989 collection He then organised an exhibition of her pots in Japan Rie's work he said "embodies a world view that is unique to western culture It is also very modest very human and most of all In 1987 some of her work was featured in a series of Post Office stamps In 1992 the Crafts Council staged a retrospective of her work Having suffered a stroke the previous year she was no longer producing pots is still working in her said Frankel "but she has always sought a standard of excellence and she's still intelligent enough to grasp that she might not now maintain that An exhibition of pottery by Rie and Coper opened at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art in February of this year Rie was appointed OBE in 1968 CBE in 1981 and DBE in 1990 DAME LUCIE RIE who has died aged 93 was one of the most admired potters of the century Her work had an austere elegance combining formality with delicacy strength with subtlety and attracted comparison with the art of Henry Moore and Pablo Picasso Impeccably modern in her approach Rie was also influenced by the pottery of prehistoric Europe Ancient Rome the Far East and medieval Islam Her pots were remarkable for the sober richness of their surface texture and the thinness of their walls Her work was once-fired and raw-glazed which is to say that the pot was thrown and slip and glaze applied to the unbaked clay before it entered the kiln Other potters have never mastered her complex glaze recipes which piled bronze on purple bled manganese into charcoal or created a lively Chinese yellow with a poisonous uranium (now illegal) The results were of surpassing beauty in such shades as peacock emerald gold and conch pink The precision of Rie's forms was achieved by the use of a razor or a steel tool known as a kidney She then decorated the eggshell-like membrane with a brush Because clay slip and glaze were all fired at the same time elaborate and often unpredictable interactions could take place Sometimes oxides in the body of the pot would melt into the outer layers to produce a speckled or streaked effect For other pieces Rie favoured a rough pitted surface a bronze sheen or areas of strong colour Frequently she would score lines into the clay (an idea she borrowed from the Celtic pottery of Wiltshire) but in every case the decoration seemed an integral part of the object Of Jewish stock she was born Lucie Gomperez in Vienna on March 16 1902 She first came into contact with Modernist design in the study of her father a doctor and colleague of Sigmund Freud she encountered Roman pottery (another source of her mature style) in her museum at Ei-senstadt near the Austro-Hungarian border Throughout her life she employed the clean clear Torturous and lingering IN AMERICA where they have a different attitude to the problem of young males they are planning to electrocute a young Briton for a murder he committed 12 years ago The execution is to take place on Thursday and lawyers for Nicky Ingram now7 32 although only 19 when he committed his crime are arguing that the electric chair is so inefficient as to be barbaric and inhumane causing a "torturous and lingering death and burning its victim to a One trouble is that in the present mood of America after a couple of years of Mr and Mrs Clinton as president this may be exactly what they wish to inflict on visiting British murderers But do not want to sell our fellow-countrymen short I was proud to learn of another young Englishman Clive Stafford-Smith now 55 who has devoted the past 17 years of his life to trying to discourage Americans from executing each other He learnt about their barbaric practices in 1976 when he was a 16-year-old schoolboy at Radley and has devoted his life to the cause ever since Rie with lines of Modernism which in the early part of the century were the essence of Viennese good taste In a cooler vein Rie's pottery also owed something to the luxuriant refinement of of Viennese Art Nouveau From 1922 to 1926 she studied pottery at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Vienna under Michael Powolny by the 1930s she had developed a repertoire of clear and forceful shapes with discreetly complex textures At the Paris Exposition Nationale of 1937 an entire section of the Austrian pavilion was devoted to work But as she and her husband Hans Rie were Jews they found themselves increasingly ostracised as well as deprived of most of their property After the Anschluss of 1938 the couple borrowed money from a non-Jewish aunt of Hans to move to London where they soon separated in 1940 he went to America to manage a felt-hat factory and she to a tiny mews house near Marble Arch with an interior designed for her by Freud's son Ernst Lucie Rie had hardly any money and subsisted mainly on cabbage (she recalled her (24th Foot) in 1936 He served in Malta and in Palestine from 1937 to 1938 when he was posted to India and stationed at Landi Kotal and at Cawn-pore with the 1st Battalion SWB In 1941 he was in Iraq before proceeding to the Western Desert where he commanded a company from 1942 until taken prisoner in 1943 Price was incarcerated in Italy but managed to escape and live in the hills where he evaded capture for more than a year he was mentioned in despatches After repatriation he became a company commander in an Officer Cadet training unit in 1945 he returned to the 1st Battalion SWB in Palestine and Cyprus After a course at Camber-ley he became a staff officer at HQ Western Command From 1951 to 1953 he was again with the 1st Battalion this time in Eritrea before becoming Brigade Major of 5 Infantry Brigade From 1956 to 1958 Price served as a company commander with the 1st Battalion in Malaya The next year Brigadier Rollo Leading from behind some of her favourite pots early London years as her But she was glad to have escaped Austria had never liked the Viennese people They were jealous not good-hearted and most of them were The British by contrast had "fine The world of British pottery was then dominated by the charismatic Bernard Leach who believed passionately in the robust ideals of the Arts and Crafts movement Leach and his followers found Lucie work lacking in the virtues they admired and criticised her severely Leach described her pots as "too thickly glazed thinly potted too much like stoneware with no Rie tried to adapt to Leach's aesthetic "he educated me and I owe liim a tremendous she later said but she was insistently unpretentious and dismissed Leach's evocation of "life flowing for a few moments perfectly through the hands of a "I just she said "until I like the But for a time she lost confidence in her own style During the Second World War she gave up pottery altogether and for a while worked in ah optical factory Price he was seconded to command the 4th Battalion Queen's Own Nigeria Regiment assigned to peacekeeping operations in the Congo In Katanga the regiment met determined opposition from the Baluba who wished to form a breakaway state Every effort was made to avoid opening fire but it was necessary to do so after an officer and three soldiers had been wounded In 1961 he returned to the staff at HQ 43 Division and from 1964 to 1967 commanded 160 Infantry Brigade He was then appointed CBE His last posting was Commandant British Troops Malta where he had begun his overseas service many years before Rollo Price was a man of many accomplishments In youth he had been a good athlete notably over hurdles He was a brilliant raconteur and could achieve a rapport with all sorts of people He was also a talented cartoonist and a poet of merit He married in 1945 Diana Budden they had three daughters YSIliB Lady Feversham by Raoul Lord Irwin) and Foreign Secretary (as the 3rd Viscount Halifax) in 1944 he was created Earl of Halifax Of Anne Wood's three brothers Charles the eldest succeeded his father as 2nd Earl of Halifax Francis was killed in action in the Second World War and Richard a minister under Harold Mac in 1992 she was also briefly an ARP warden It was not until 1945 that she began to make a comeback by agreeing to make ceramic buttons for an enterprise run by a Viennese compatriot Soon she was making not only buttons but also ceramic jewellery mirrors and pots In 1946 she took as her assistant Hans Coper a German refugee 18 years her junior: "I knew somebody fantastic had she later said "I am a potter but he was an Coper's encouragement helped her to regain confidence and over the next 12 years the two produced work that was starker and chunkier than her Viennese pottery matt in finish and often marked with incised (sgraffito) lines Rie and Coper had an immense influence on the post-war generation of potters indeed they succeeded Leach as the dominant forces in British studio pottery Leach admitted he had been wrong about Rie's work and became a firm friend and supporter Rie came to wider attention in 1967 with a one-woman show for the Arts Council but her prices did not rocket until bv 1992 Price in 1936 soon after Millais 1951 millan Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Edward Heath was created a life peer as Lord Holderness in 1979 Anne Wood joined her father in India when he was Viceroy between 1926 and 1931 The story goes that after his return to England he was pointed out by an enthusias Maj-Gen PRF Bonnet is appointed General Secretary of the Pension Society in succession to Maj-Gen Sir Laurence New Sir Laurence will continue as the Campaign Director of the "Victory campaign until the end of Mav 1995 BIRTHDAYS Prof Kathleen Tillotson Emeritus Professor of English University of London is 89 Mr Graham Stuart Thomas horticulturist 86 the Duke of Grafton 76 Sir John Smith former MP 72 Mr Marlon Brando actor 71 Mr Tony Benn MP 70 Dr Dennis Farr Director Courtauld Institute Galleries 1980 93 66 Herr Helmut Kohl Chan cellor Federal Republic of Ger many 65 Lord Justice Nourse 63 Sir Jeffery Bowman Chairman Price Waterhouse Europe 1988 93 60 and Mr Jonathan Lynn director writer and actor 52 FORTHCOMING MARRIAGES Lt ASJ Short RN and Miss RM Stocks The engagement is announced between Simon elder son of Mr and Mrs TW Short of Lytham Lancs and Ruth younger daughter of Mr and Mrs JC Stocks of Horsforth Leeds Dr CAS Swain and Mrs SJ Cooke The engagement is announced between Christopher of Market Overton Rutland and Susan Jane (nee Terry) of Salisbury The wedding will take place quietly in June Mr MLM De Luca and Miss WM Siggers The engagement is announced between Marcus son of Mr Leonard De Luca of Ealing London and Mrs Rosalind De Luca of Ferndown Dorset and Wendreda daughter of the late Dr David Siggers and of Dr Diana Siggers of Bratton Wiltshire Mr NCT Wheeler and Miss Rucker The engagement is announced between Nicholas Charles Tyrwhitt son of Mr JVT Wheeler and the late Mrs Geraldine Wheeler of Bitterley Shropshire and Christian daughter of Mr A Rucker and Mrs JSK Calcutt of Redlands Crockham Hill Kent Mr GW Carter and Miss SL Masterton The engagement is announced between Guy only son of Mr and Mrs Tony Carter of Cheltenham Glos and Sarah elder daughter of Mr and Mrs Gavin Masterton of Northwood Middx Mr Phillips and Miss Wickins The engagement is announced between Simon younger son of Mr Ronald Phillips of Kensington London and Mrs Elisabeth Phillips of Magagnosc France and Samantha daughter of Mr and Mrs David Wickins of Son Vida Palma de Mallorca Spain Mr LG Medlock and Miss KM Gough The engagement is announced between Lee only son of Mr and Mrs Roger Medlock of Rawtenstall Lancashire and Katherine younger daughter of Mr and Mrs Brandon Gough of Sevenoaks Weald Kent WEDDINGS Mr AE Fanshawe and Miss MHD Anninos The marriage took place on Saturday April 1 1995 between Mr Angus Fanshawe and Miss Marianna Anninos at the Greek Cathedral of St Sophia London The Rt Rev Timotheos Bishop of Miletoupolis officiated The bride who was given away by her uncle Mr Alexi Cariofillis was attended by Peter and Isabella Spyrou Katia and Christiana Florman Emily Vitian Rosa McNeill William Langton and Sophie Fanshawe The best man was Sir Euan Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe A reception was held at and the honeymoon is being spent in South Africa Mr PA Moyse and Mrs JAA Holdcroft The marriage took place quietly on Friday March 24 in Woodbridge Suffolk between Mr Peter Moyse and Mrs Jane Holdcroft (nee Simmons) EVENTS Queen's Life Guard mounts Horse Guards 11 Queen's Guard mounts Buckingham Palace 1130 National Gallery: films: Surprised! The Paintings of Henri Rousseau Tradition and Revolution in French Art 1 The Quince Tree Sun 230 The Wallace Collection Manchester Square: Patricia Ramsay general guided tour 1 St Anne and St Agnes' Gresham Street: Helicon Piano Quartet 110 THE DOWAGER VISCOUNTESS WIMBORNE A memorial service for the Dowager Viscountess Wimborne will be held at St James's Piccadilly on Tuesday May 23 at 1130am T- In 17 years of campaigning in America he has never lost his English accent and never reconciled himself to the American way of life He says: can't stand the place It has sunk to a fast-food society in all its It would be amiable enough in an Old Radleian to campaign against capital punishment in Britain To care whether Americans execute each other or not something most of us have long ago decided is none of our business is surely the sign of a hero and a saint Whether Nick Ingram goes to the chair or not we can be proud of at least one of our fellow-countrymen across the herring pond hunting If he had we may be sure that every child and young person in the country would be bitterly opposed to it as Tony Benn fondly imagines Instead of which we learn of a telephone opinion poll conducted by News-round the BBC's current affairs programme for children on the question of whether fox-hunting should be banned This was after the second reading of the socialist John McFall's infamous Bill Of 11308 children who responded 53 per cent voted against a ban Well done Mr Major Lack of leadership has its points But the only newspaper which spotted this was The Countryman' Weekly voice of the Country Party published in Yel-verton Devon As Deedes prophesied they would things are beginning to move Chorlton cum Hardy the television actress who for 23 years played Annie Walker landlady of the "Rovers Return" in Coronation Street who died last November aged 95 left estate valued at £514192 net Other estates (net before tax): Mr Arthur Leonard Alsford of West Wittering Sussex £81 1087 Mrs Edna Valerie Binns of Hastings Sussex £1573309 Mr Ian Graham Brockman of Og-bourne St George Wilts £661691 Mr Maurice Trevor Edgley of Guildford Surrey £3002889 Mrs Annette Rosanna Theresa Goodyear of Streetly Midlands £1135070 Marguerite Madeleine Hart of Wallington Surrey £681785 Mrs Carole Ann Kiddy of Bristol £682592 Mr Horace Arthur Marshall of Cheltenham Glos £683539 Mr Thomas John Mercer of Fulham London SW6 £868571 Mr James Christopher Lavallin Puxley of Tavistock Devon £696722 Mrs Joyce Barbara Marie Scrim-geour of Elstead Surrey £617830 SSXuionL rtq CROSSWORD No 21518 borough Leics: Mr A Marples Blew-burv Oxon Mrs Best Hove Sussex: Mr A Baldry Elburton Plymouth Mrs Davis Mill Hill London Miss Smith Wilton Road Southampton Mr Frampton Crowthorne Berks: Mr Turner Lowestoft Suffolk Mr Ben-ians Billericay Essex The Countess of Feversham BRIGADIER Rollo Price who has died aged 78 won a DSO for courage in action when commanding the 4th Battalion Nigerian Regiment in Katanga in 1961 The citation recorded that on his way from Kamina to seize the airstrip at Manono Price fought four engagements each stage he moved openly around the battlefield and then unarmed and accompanied only by an interpreter persuaded the armed and militant tribesmen to accept the troops peacefully "On one occasion he persuaded the garrison of a strongly manned roadblock to cease fighting and when on the airport itself he came under fire once again he showed complete disregard for his own This was the culmination of a military career in which Price had seen almost continuous active service since the beginning of his military life in the mid-1950s Rollo Edward Crwys Price was born on April 6 1916 educated at Canford and Sandhurst and commissioned into the South Wales Borderers THE COUNTESS OF FEVERSHAM who has died aged 84 was a legendary figure in the hunting field and the first woman ever appointed to the committee of the Masters of Foxhounds Association As Meriel Buxton observed in her book Ladies of the Chase this was an appropriate tribute to Lady standing in the hunting world Buxton listed Lady Feversham with Mrs Murray-Smith as pre-eminent among the lady Masters of Foxhounds of the post-war era The Yorkshire hunting tradition she inherited from her own family was reinforced in 1936 when she married the 3rd Earl of Feversham a Lord-in-waiting to King Edward VIII The Fevershams had a long connection with the Sin-nington Hounds: the 1st Earl had hunted a large tract of east Yorkshire in the 19th century the 2nd Earl had been Master until he was killed in the First World War Lady Feversham joined her husband in the Mastership of the Sinnington Hounds in 1950 four years after he had taken the office and continued until 1985 Feversham whose call to the Sinnington Hounds was a warbled Garbo Greta died in 1963 A woman of great style IT IS a commonplace among many parts of middle Britain to mourn the Prime Minister's lack of leadership qualities It does not occur to us to be grateful for them or for the negative leadership he achieves For instance he swore to lead us into a new classless society whereas what he has achieved is a new creative tension between the classes whereby any chairman of British Gas or regional water company who earns more than a typical working journalist is held up to the loathing and ridicule of the nation Similarly when he calls for a return to family values large numbers of his MPs immediately embark on a programme of such sexual depravity as puts the last days of the Roman empire to shame Perhaps we should be grateful he has never tried to defend the great sport of DINNER Royal Southern Yacht Club Captain Frank Murphy Commodore presided at the Fitting Out Supper held on Saturday by the Royal Southern Yacht Club at the Clubhouse Hamble Southampton at which the Read Challenge Trophy was awarded to Mr Peter Garrod and a special cadet prize was awarded to Alastair Hall SERVICE DINNER Movement Control Officers' Club Brig A Evans Commander HQ RLC Training Centre and Mrs Evans were principal guests at the annual ladies' dinner held by members of the Movement Control Officers' Club on Saturday in the Officers' Mess The Princess Royal Barracks Deep-cut Lt-Col CLE Spurr presided The Essex Regiment (TA) The annual dinner of the Officers' Dinner Club of the 4th 5th Bn The Essex Regiment (TA) was held on Saturday in Colchester Col Geoffrey Morgan presided RECENT WILLS Miss Doris Speed of Bury Greater Manchester formerly of WINNERS OF PRIZE The first three prize winners are: Mrs Kay Kingsclere Berks: Mrs Davidson St Andrews Fife Mrs Anna Grant Edg-baston Birmingham Consolation winners are: Mr Rawle Sheldon Birmingham Miss A Embley Redhill Surrey Ms Chris Williams Walthamstow London E17: Ms Tribe Lough receiving his commission tic hunt follower: demanded his companion you know he was Viceroy of heard of must know Anne Wood's course! Why you tell me Lady father or brother or both were Masters of the Middleton Hounds from 1932 to 1980 While her husband was serving in the Middle East during the Second World War she played an important part in the WVS in Yorkshire She continued this work after the war and was appointed MBE in 1950 and OBE in 1979 She became a JP for the North Riding in 1958 After the death of her brother the 2nd Earl of Halifax in 1980 Lady Feversham took on the chairmanship of the hound show at the Great Yorkshire Show In 1972 she published Strange Stories of the Chase a collection of ghost stories collected from the hunting field which were later translated into French Latterly she was known locally by the sobriquet GOC (for Grand Old Countess) The Fevershams had a daughter but no son so the Earldom became extinct a distant kinsman succeeded to a subsidiary barony A portrait of Lady Feversham rode sidesaddle and as Master of the Sinnington always wore a red coat a top hat in which she was painted by Raoul Millais She was born Anne Dorothy Wood on July 31 1910 the eldest surviving child of Edward Wood who later became Viceroy of India (as.