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His funeral was held at Lawnswood Crematorium in Leeds on 22 March 2011. Since his school days he had a keen interest in chess and later on he noted playing chess and making chess boards as his hobbies. He also maintained a number of web sites for chess clubs in the Leeds area. [8] [9]
A Requiem Mass was held at Clifton Cathedral on 2 June 1999 followed by cremation at South Bristol crematorium. [82] Michael Cullen, Phyllis Mary's son and Priestley's grandson, [83] is a former senior research fellow at the Met Office and visiting professor in mathematics at the University of Reading. [84]
The memorial marks the graves of husband and wife Ethel and Walter Preston. [2] The principal feature is a life-sized statue of Ethel, holding a bouquet and wearing the costume of a choir that she sang in. [3] [2] Ethel stands within a classical-style porch rendered in white Italian marble, reputedly modelled after the portico of the Prestons' house (now demolished), the Grange in Beeston.
Lawnswood has one of the city's main cemeteries and crematoria. Lawnswood Cemetery was opened in 1875, its grounds and most of its buildings designed by architect George Corson, who was himself buried here in 1910. The crematorium, first in Leeds, was opened in 1905. [6]
Birmingham Crematorium, Perry Barr; Bushbury Cemetery and Crematorium, Wolverhampton; Canley Cemetery and Crematorium, Coventry Gornal Wood Cemetery and Crematorium, Brierley Hill
Corson won a competition for the landscaping of Roundhay Park in 1873, [13] and in 1874 designed the layout and many of the buildings of Lawnswood cemetery, where he himself was buried in 1910. His gravestone, a Celtic cross with five bosses, is Grade II listed, one of only four listed memorials at Lawnswood.
During the First World War, Scoular was a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Garrison Artillery. In the newspaper obituary of the Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer of Friday 11 September 1953, he was recorded as Major John Gladstone Scoular.
Alfred Richardson as a Constable. Alfred Richardson joined the City of Birmingham Police Force on 27 October 1890 [4] and was attested. [note 1] Initially he was a 'beat constable' [5] but was promoted through the four classes of constableship very rapidly and then moved from the beat to the Detective Office in central Birmingham.