What's new: March 2018

March 8, 2018

The March 2018 update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford DNB) adds new biographies of 216 men and women who died in the year 2014.

Below you’ll find biographies of politician Tony Benn, cook and television presenter Clarissa Dickson-Wright, geneticist Mary Lyon, the chatelaine and author Deborah Cavendish, glaciologist and polar scientist Charles Swithinbank, author and public servant Lady Mary Soames, Formula One racing driver Jack Brabham, film mogul Sir Run Run Shaw, Olympic fencer Mary Haig, human rights advocate and psychotherapist Helen Bamber, SNP politician Margo MacDonald, the actor, director, and film producer Richard Attenborough, opera administrator Sir George Christie, novelist and playwright Sue Townsend, author, theatre producer, and television executive Michael Kustow, the trade unionist Bob Crow, children’s author Josephine Pullein-Thompson, businesswoman Mandy Rice Davies, the crime novelist and public servant P. D. James, cyclist Billie Fleming, the royal milliner Philip Somerville, comedian and actor Rik Mayall, photographer Jane Bown, and the actor Bob Hoskins.

Benn Clarissa Dickson-Wright Mary Lyon Deborah Cavendish
 Charles Swithinbank Mary Soames John Brabham Run Run Shaw
Mary Haig Bamber Margo MacDonald Richard Attenborough 
George Christie Sue Townsend Michael Kustow Bob Crow 
Josephine Pullein-Thompson Mandy Rice Davies P. D. James  Billie Fleming 
Philip Somerville Rik Mayall Jane Bown Bob Hoskins

 

The Oxford DNB is updated regularly throughout the year, giving you access to the most up-to-date and accurate information available. Nearly all public libraries in England, Scotland, and Wales—and all in Northern Ireland—subscribe to the Oxford DNB. This means you can access tens of thousands of biographies, free, via your local library—anywhere, anytime. Full access to all biographies is also available by individual subscription.

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