Martin Greenfield, tailor who learnt his craft in Auschwitz and later dressed presidents – obituary
When he wore an SS officer’s discarded shirt under his striped uniform, he noticed prisoners – and even guards – treating him with respect
When he wore an SS officer’s discarded shirt under his striped uniform, he noticed prisoners – and even guards – treating him with respect
He and his wife remained dignified throughout three Old Bailey trials, but were dismayed at the lenient sentence for their child’s killers
One critic, after a severe recital, called him ‘the Hosni Mubarak of pianists’, but others admired his refusal to be ‘user-friendly’
He took 1,000 wickets bowling leg-breaks, a rare feat, and he once took Princess Margaret to a nightclub in Barbados
He observed trends such as how the 19th-century life-insurance boom led to a rise in murder for profit, with victims including many infants
Though he won awards in his own right he was a team player, saying: ‘My job is to come in and move the story along. I’m a character man’
Hyde-Smith was once introduced as ‘the distinguished flautist’ and an old lady asked: ‘Tell me, my dear, what do you actually do to floors?’
He won the Stanley Cup with Colorado Avalanche but was suspended for a total of 65 games during his career
At 6ft 4in, Bell was thought too tall to be a pilot, so he was trained as an observer and then as a bomb aimer destined for Bomber Command
McAleese dwelt on his failings as husband and father: ‘I have a ... lot of regrets and none of them are in the soldiering side of my life’
His ‘quintessential Englishness’ was evident in ‘a good suit and tie even in the hottest weather and profound, perhaps excessive, courtesy’
He found high rates of alcoholism and male suicide among the Inuit after they were ejected from their land to make way for a US airbase
His film about pilgrimages to Santiago de Compostela led to a letter from Mary Whitehouse telling him he was ‘a light unto the nation’
‘I knew right away I’d invented something new,’ he said of his original ‘Sparko Box’
Henson drove off machine-gun and grenade attacks from all sides and carried a dead comrade more than a mile back to the battalion lines
In Drinking and Hooting Machine, performers with bottles of beer alternate between gulping and blowing, like a chorus of mournful owls
He had to wait two decades to write his script after the Queen Mother asked him to wait until she died
In 1969, as commander of Apollo 10, he also flew the lunar module almost to the Moon’s surface in a crucial dress rehearsal for the landings
‘I don’t mind when people ask me about my surname. What does trouble me is when people say, “Your grandfather wasn’t really that bad”’
She was jailed for leading a notorious 1974 art heist, while her bombs were used for atrocities in London and Northern Ireland
His career flourished despite a childhood accident that rendered one of his fingers unusable
He was celebrated in the fashion press as a ‘devilish altar boy to Vivienne Westwood’s high priestess’
The song has been covered by more than 120 bands but began as ‘a piece of vengeful poetry’ after the break-up of his first band
Larkin was an influence and friend but they were poles apart politically and Brownjohn contributed to an anthology for Jeremy Corbyn
A telephone call from Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead in 1970 sent his audio career on to a new level
He believed that ‘you can’t live your life just focusing on all the dangers. Death is a part of life and when your time is up, it’s up’
In a final sermon he attacked a tendency of some in the Church to resent ‘uppity’ cathedrals and try to impose a ‘monochrome blandness’
She won a string of beauty contests, including Miss Great Britain 1950, which led to her being cast in the comedy Lady Godiva Rides Again
At the BBC in the 1990s he presented Prayer for the Day on Radio 4 and for Radio 3 edited the enduringly popular programme Choral Evensong
He fought for the Free French navy, took part in the liberation of Paris and, postwar, rose to the rank of admiral
Billed as ‘America’s most famous bartender’, he was later upstaged by his brother’s hit memoir, then cashed in with a bestseller of his own
A senior nuclear physicist who developed plutonium fuels, Rose also did a PhD on Joseph Priestley, the 18th-century chemist and philosopher