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Unteachables (Channel 4); contrib to a range of TV and radio progs incl: Newsnight, Panorama, Any Questions, You and Yours, Today, Start the Week, Radio 5 Live, PM, BBC Question Time, Breakfast Television; memb Cncl Industrial Soc; hon doctorate Univ of North London 2002; FRSA 2002 (memb Cncl 2004); Recreations rugby, theatre, family; Style— Sir William Atkinson; K Phoenix High School, The Curve, Shepherds Bush, London W12 0RQ (tel 020 8735 1501, fax 020 8743 0913, e-mail william_atkinson@phoenix.llbhf.sch.uk, website www.phoenix.llbhf.sch.uk) ATLAY, Robert David; DL (Merseyside 2003); s of Robert Henry Atlay (d 1997), of Freshfield, Lancs, and Sarah, ne´e Griffiths (d 2002); b 26 June 1936; Educ Wirral GS, Univ of Liverpool (MB ChB); m 11 Feb 1967, Jean, da of William Alfred Stephen Cole (d 1993), of Prenton, Merseyside; 2 da (Josephine b 8 May 1969, Victoria b 3 April 1973); Career conslt obstetrician and gynaecologist; formerly at: Mill Road Maternity Hosp 1970, Royal Liverpool Hosp 1978; clinical lectr in obstetrics and gynaecology and past chm Faculty of Med Univ of Liverpool, past med dir Liverpool Women’s Hosp Obstetrics and Gynaecology NHS Tst, ret; past chm Euro Ctee RCOG, past chm CME/CPD Ctee RCOG; examiner: RCOG, Royal Aust Coll of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Univs of Liverpool, Cambridge, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, London, the W Indies and Amman; hosp visitor Royal Women’s Hosp Brisbane 1981; papers in specialist jls, contrib RCOG Yearbooks, Clinics in obstetrics and gynaecology 1989–2002; past pres Union Professionelle Internationale Obstetrics and Gynaecology, govr Walton Neurology Centre Tst Liverpool; Sec of State appointee memb: Maternity Servs Advsy Ctee, Nat Transplant Panel, English Nat Bd Nursing Midwifery and Health Visiting; hon sec RCOG 1980–87 (memb Cncl 1973–95); tstee St Georges Hall Liverpool; govr: Wirral GS 1993–2000, Liverpool Hope Univ 2004–; past pres Waterloo RUFC; High Sheriff Merseyside 2003–04; FRCOG; Recreations rugby union football, golf, skiing, traditional jazz; Clubs Waterloo Football, Formby Golf, Liverpool Artists (past pres), Gynaecological Travellers; Style— Robert Atlay, Esq, DL; K 9 St Andrews Drive, Blundellsands, Liverpool L23 7UX (tel and fax 0151 924 1160); 35 Rodney Street, Liverpool, Merseyside L1 9EN ATTA, Hatem Riad; s of Riad Gorgi Atta (d 1995), of Egypt, and Jozephine Matta, ne´e Ebrahim (d 1989); b 12 August 1951; Educ Private Mission Sch Egypt, DO London (MB BCh); m 26 June 1982, Janet Ann, da of Samuel John Saunders (d 1988); Career sr registrar in ophthalmology West Midlands RHA 1983–88, fell in ophthalmic ultrasonography Miami Sch of Med 1986–87, conslt ophthalmic surgn Aberdeen Royal Infirmary 1988–; hon sr lectr Univ of Aberdeen 1988; author of papers in scientific jls; memb: Oxford Congress, Int Soc of Ophthalmic Ultrasound; FRCSEd 1980, FRCOphth 1988; Books Techniques and Application of Diagnostic Ultrasound (1990), Ophthalmic Ultrasound a practical guide (1996); Recreations racquet sports, golf, scuba diving; Clubs Aberdeen Petroleum, Royal Aberdeen Golf, Aberdeen Medical Golf Society; Style— Hatem Atta, Esq; K Eye Department, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Foresterhill, Aberdeen (tel 01224 553217, fax 01224 861849) ATTALLAH, Naim Ibrahim; s of Ibrahim Attallah, and Genevieve Attallah; b 1 May 1931; Educ Battersea Poly; m 1957, Maria, da of Joseph Nykolyn; 1 s; Career foreign exchange dealer 1957, fin conslt 1966, dir of companies 1969–; book publisher and prop: Quartet Books 1976–, The Women’s Press 1977–, Robin Clark 1980–; magazine prop: The Literary Review 1981–2001, The Wire 1984–2000, The Oldie 1991–2001; articles in The Literary Review, princ interviewer The Oldie; Asprey plc: fin dir and jt md 1979–92, chief exec 1992–95; md Mappin & Webb 1990–95, md Watches of Switzerland 1992–95, exec dir Garrard 1990–95; prop The Academy Club 1989–97; parfumier: launched Parfums Namara 1985 with Avant l’Amour and Apre´s l’Amour, Naı¨dor in 1986, l’Amour de Namara 1990; theatrical prodr: Happy End (co-presenter, Lyric) 1975, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B (presenter and prodr, Duke of York’s) 1981, Trafford Tanzi (co-prodr, Mermaid) 1982; film prodr: The Slipper and the Rose (co-prodr with David Frost) 1974–75, Brimstone and Treacle (exec prodr) 1982; also produced and presented TV documentaries; Retail Personality of the Year UK Jewellery Awards 1993; Hon MA Univ of Surrey 1993; FRSA; Books Women (1987), Singular Encounters (1990), Of a Certain Age (1992), More of a Certain Age (1993), Speaking for the Oldie (1994), A Timeless Passion (1995), Tara and Claire (1996), Asking Questions (1996), In Conversation with Naim Attallah (1998), A Woman a Week (1998), Insights (1999), Dialogues (2000), The Old Ladies of Nazareth (2004), The Boy In England (2005), In Touch with his Roots (2006), Fulfilment & Betrayal (2007); Recreations classical music, opera, theatre, cinema, photography; Clubs Arts, Beefsteak; Style— Naim Attallah, Esq; K 25 Shepherd Market, London W1J 7PP (tel 020 7499 2901, fax 020 7499 2914, e-mail nattallah@aol.com, website http://quartetbooks.wordpress.com) ATTENBOROUGH, Sir David Frederick; OM (2005), CH (1996), kt (1985), CVO (1991), CBE (1974); s of Frederick Levi Attenborough (d 1973), and Mary, ne´e Clegg (d 1961); bro of Baron Attenborough, CBE (Life Peer), qv; b 8 May 1926; Educ Wyggeston GS for Boys Leicester, Clare Coll Cambridge (hon fell 1980); m 1950, Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel (d 1997); 1 s, 1 da; Career naturalist, traveller, broadcaster and writer; served RN 1947–49; editorial asst in an educational publishing house 1949–52, prodr talks and documentary progs BBC 1952, controller TV BBC2 1965–68, dir of Programmes TV and memb Bd of Management BBC 1969–72; zoological and ethnographic filming expeditions to: Sierra Leone 1954, Br Guiana 1955, Indonesia 1956, New Guinea 1957, Paraguay and Argentina 1958, South West Pacific 1959, Madagascar 1960, Northern Territory Australia 1962, Zambesi 1964, Bali 1969, Central New Guinea 1971, Celebes 1973, Borneo 1973, Peru 1973, Columbia 1973, Mali 1974, Br Columbia 1974, Iran 1974, Solomon Islands 1974, Nigeria 1975; writer and presenter BBC series: Zoo Quest 1954–64, Tribal Eye 1976, Life on Earth 1979, The Living Planet 1984, The First Eden 1987, Lost Worlds Vanished Lives 1989, The Trials of Life 1990, The Private Life of Plants 1995, The Life of Birds 1998, The Blue Planet 2001, Life In The Undergrowth 2005, Planet Earth 2006, Life in Cold Blood 2008 (Best Specialist Factual BAFTA 2009); tstee: World Wildlife Fund UK 1965–69, 1972–82 and 1984–90, World Wildlife Fund Int 1979–86, Br Museum 1980–, Science Museum 1984–87, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 1986–92, Learning Through Landscapes 1990–; memb Nature Conservancy Cncl 1973–82, corresponding memb American Museum of Natural History 1985, Huw Wheldon Meml Lecture RTS 1987; fell BAFTA 1980; awards: Special Award SFTA 1961, Silver Medal Zoological Soc of London 1966, Silver Medal RTS 1966, Desmond Davis Award SFTA 1970, Cherry Keaton Medal RGS 1972, Kalinga Prize UNESCO 1981, Washburn Award Boston Museum of Science 1983, Hopper Day Medal Acad of Natural Sciences Philadelphia 1983, Founder’s Gold Medal RGS 1985, Int Emmy Award 1985, Encyclopaedia Britannica Award 1987, Livingstone Medal RSGS 1990; Hon Freeman City of Leicester 1990; hon fell: Manchester Poly 1976, UMIST 1980; Hon DLitt: Univ of Leicester 1970, City Univ 1972, Univ of London 1980, Univ of Birmingham 1982; Hon LLD: Univ of Bristol 1977, Univ of Glasgow 1980; Hon DSc: Univ of Liverpool 1974, Heriot-Watt Univ 1978, Univ of Sussex 1979, Univ of Bath 1981, Ulster Univ 1982, Univ of Durham 1982, Keele Univ 1986, Univ of Oxford 1988; Hon DUniv: Open Univ 1980, Univ of Essex 1987; Hon ScD Univ of Cambridge 1984, Hon DSc Univ of Aberdeen 2008; Cdr of the Golden Ark (Netherlands) 1983; Hon FRCP 1991, FRS 1983, Hon FRSE 2005; Books Zoo Quest to Guiana (1956), Zoo Quest for a Dragon (1957), Zoo Quest in Paraguay (1959), Quest in Paradise (1960), Zoo Quest to Madagascar (1961), Quest under Capricorn (1963), The Tribal Eye (1976), Life on Earth (1979), The Living Planet (1984), The First Eden (1987), The Trials of Life (1990), The Private Life of Plants (1995), The Life of Birds (1998), The Blue Planet (2001), Life on Air (2002), Life of Mammals (2002), Life In The Undergrowth (2005); Recreations
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tribal art, natural history; Style— Sir David Attenborough, OM, CH, CVO, CBE, FRS; K 5 Park Road, Richmond, Surrey TW10 6NS ATTENBOROUGH, Hon Michael John; s of Baron Attenborough, CBE (Life Peer), qv, and Sheila Beryl Grant, ne´e Sim; b 13 February 1950; Educ Westminster, Univ of Sussex (BA, pres Univ Drama Soc); m 1, 10 July 1971 (m dis 1976), Jane Seymour, qv; m 2, 14 April 1984, Karen Esther, yr da of Sydney Victor Lewis (d 1990), of London; 2 s (Thomas Frederick Richard b 13 Oct 1986, William Grant Oliver b 26 June 1991); Career freelance theatre director; asst dir Gardner Centre Theatre 1972; assoc dir: Mercury Theatre Colchester 1972–74, Leeds Playhouse 1974–79, Young Vic Theatre 1979–80; artistic dir: Palace Theatre Watford 1980–84, Hampstead Theatre 1984–89, Turnstyle Group 1989–90; princ assoc dir RSC 1990–2002, artistic dir Almeida Theatre 2002–; freelance work as dir incl prodns for: Open Space Theatre, Red Ladder, Newcastle Playhouse, Citadel Theatre Edmonton, Abbey Theatre Dublin, Tricycle Theatre, Royal Court Theatre London and Nat Theatre; dir of over 100 plays to date; vice-chair Cncl RADA, dep chair Drama Panel Arts Cncl; former memb: Greater London Arts, Bubble Theatre Bd, Cncl Directors’ Guild; currently dir Susan Smith Blackburn Prize; Time Out Theatre Award for Observe The Sons of Ulster Marching Towards The Somme 1986, nominated Best Dir London Theatre Critics Awards 1985, nominated Outstanding Achievement Award (as dir Hampstead Theatre) Olivier Awards 1986, hon assoc artist RSC 2002; Hon DLitt: Univ of Sussex 2005, Univ of Leicester 2009; Recreations being with my family, football, music, theatre; Style— The Hon Michael Attenborough, DLitt; K Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, London N1 1TA (tel 020 7288 4900, fax 020 7288 4901) ATTENBOROUGH, Neil Richard; RD (1980, and Bar 1989); s of John William Attenborough, and Eileen, ne´e Ward; b 4 May 1940; m 1, 10 Sept 1968 (m dis 1980), Josephine; 2 s (Paul Alexander b 1971, Tristan Alistair b 1973); m 2, 10 June 1982, Jennifer Mary; 1 s (Thomas William b 1983); Career conslt oral and maxillo-facial surgn SW Surrey and NE Hants Dist Authys, dir Guildford Dental Trg and Treatment Centre; inventor and prodr Attenborough Sea Drogue; CO London Sailing Project, memb: RNSA, BDA, RSM; FDSRCS, FDSRCSEd; Recreations sailing, squash, cricket; Style— Neil Attenborough, Esq, RD ATTENBOROUGH, Baron (Life Peer UK 1993), of Richmond upon Thames in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames; Sir Richard Samuel Attenborough; kt (1976), CBE (1967); s of Frederick Levi Attenborough (d 1973), and Mary, ne´e Clegg (d 1961); bro of Sir David Attenborough, qv; b 29 August 1923; Educ Wyggeston GS for Boys Leicester, RADA (Leverhulme scholar, Bancroft Medal); m 22 January 1945, Sheila Beryl Grant, ne´e Sim, JP (actress), da of Stuart Grant Sim (d 1975), of Hove, E Sussex; 1 s (Hon Michael John, qv, b 13 February 1950), 2 da (Hon Jane (Hon Mrs Holland) b 30 September 1955 d 2004, Hon Charlotte (Hon Mrs Sinclair) b 29 June 1959); Career actor, film producer and director; joined RAF 1943, flt sgt airgunner/cameraman, seconded RAF Film Unit 1944 (for Journey Together, 1944), demobbed 1946; formed: Beaver Films (with Bryan Forbes) 1959, Allied Film Makers 1960; memb: Cncl Br Actors’ Equity Assoc 1949–73, Cinematograph Films Cncl 1967–73, Arts Cncl of GB 1970–73; chm: BAFTA 1969–71 (vice-pres 1973–95, tstee 1972–2003, pres 2002–2010), RADA 1970– (memb Cncl 1963–), Capital Radio 1972–92 (life pres 1992), Help a London Child 1975–, UK Tstees Waterford-Kamhlaba Sch Swaziland 1976– (govr 1987–), Duke of York’s Theatre 1979–92, BFI 1981–92, Goldcrest Films & TV 1982–87, Ctee of Inquiry into the Arts and Disabled People 1983–85, Channel 4 TV 1987–92 (dep chm 1980–86), Br Screen Advsy Cncl 1987–96 (hon pres 1996–), Euro Script Fund 1988–96 (hon pres 1996–); pres: Muscular Dystrophy Gp of GB 1971– (vice-pres 1962–71), The Gandhi Fndn 1983–, Brighton Festival 1984–95, Br Film Year 1984–86, The Actors’ Charitable Tst 1988– (chm 1956–88), Combined Theatrical Appeals Cncl 1988– (chm 1964–88), Arts for Health 1989–, Gardner Centre for the Arts Univ of Sussex 1990– (patron 1969–90), Nat Film Sch 1997–; tstee: King George V Fund for Actors and Actresses 1973–, Tate Gallery 1976–82 and 1994–96, Tate Fndn 1986–, Fndn for Sport and the Arts 1991–; dir: Chelsea FC 1969–82 (life vice-pres 1992–), Young Vic 1974–84; chllr Univ of Sussex 1998– (pro-chllr 1970–98), govr Motability 1977–; patron: Kingsley Hall Community Centre 1982–, RA Centre for Disability and the Arts Leicester 1990–; goodwill ambassador for UNICEF 1987–; Evening Standard Film Award for 40 Years Service to Br Cinema 1983, Award of Merit for Humanitarianism in Film Making Euro Film Awards 1988, Academy Award Sony Radio Awards 1992, Shakespeare Prize for Outstanding Contrib to Euro Culture 1992; Fleming Meml Lecture RTS 1989; Freeman City of Leicester 1990; Hon DLitt: Leicester 1970, Kent 1981, Sussex 1987, American Inst Univ of London 1994, Cape Town 2000; Hon DCL Newcastle 1974, Hon LLD Dickinson Pa 1983; fell: BAFTA 1983, BFI 1992, King’s Coll London 1993; hon fell: Manchester Metropolitan Univ 1994, Univ of Wales Bangor 1997, Nat Film and Television Sch 2001; Martin Luther King Jr Peace Prize 1983, Padma Bhushan India 1983, Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France) 1985, Chevalier Ordre de la Le´gion d’Honneur France 1988, Praemium Imperiale 1998; Theatre debut as Richard Miller in Ah Wilderness (Intimate Theatre Palmers Green) 1941, West End debut as Ralph Berger in Awake and Sing (Arts Theatre) 1942, The Little Foxes (Piccadilly) 1942, Brighton Rock (Garrick) 1943, The Way Back (Home of the Brave (Westminster)) 1949, To Dorothy a Son (Savoy 1950, Garrick 1951), Sweet Madness (Vaudeville) 1952, The Mousetrap (Ambassadors) 1952–54, Double Image (Savoy 1956–57, St James’s 1957), The Rape of the Belt (Piccadilly) 1957–58; Film appearances incl: debut in In Which We Serve 1942, School for Secrets, The Man Within, Dancing with Crime, Brighton Rock 1947, London Belongs to Me, The Guinea Pig 1948, The Lost People, Boys in Brown, Morning Departure 1950, Hell is Sold Out, The Magic Box, Gift Horse, Father’s Doing Fine, Eight O’Clock Walk, The Ship that Died of Shame, Private’s Progress 1956, The Baby and the Battleship, Brothers in Law, The Scamp, Dunkirk 1958, The Man Upstairs, Sea of Sand, Danger Within, I’m All Right Jack 1959, Jet Storm, SOS Pacific, The Angry Silence (also co-prodr) 1960, The League of Gentlemen 1960, Only Two Can Play, All Night Long 1961, The Dock Brief, The Great Escape 1963, Se´ance On A Wet Afternoon (prodr, Best Actor San Sebastian Film Festival and Br Film Acad) 1964, The Third Secret, Guns At Batasi (Best Actor Br Film Acad) 1964, The Flight of The Phoenix 1966, The Sand Pebbles (Hollywood Golden Globe) 1967, Dr Doolittle (Hollywood Golden Globe) 1967, The Bliss of Mrs Blossom 1967, Only When I Larf 1968, The Last Grenade, A Severed Head, David Copperfield, Loot 1969, 10 Rillington Place 1970, And Then There Were None, Rosebud, Brannigan, Conduct Unbecoming 1974, The Chess Players 1977, The Human Factor 1979, Jurassic Park 1993, Miracle on 34th Street 1994, The Lost World 1997, Elizabeth 1998, Puckoon 2001; prodr: Whistle Down The Wind 1961, The L-Shaped Room 1962; prodr and dir: Oh! What A Lovely War (16 Int Awards incl Hollywood Golden Globe and BAFTA UN Award) 1969; dir: Young Winston (Hollywood Golden Globe) 1972, A Bridge Too Far (Evening News Best Drama Award) 1977, Magic 1978; prodr and dir: Gandhi (8 Oscars, 5 BAFTA Awards, 5 Hollywood Golden Globes, Dirs’ Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement) 1980–81, A Chorus Line 1985, Cry Freedom (Berlinale Kamera and BFI Tech Achievement Award) 1987, Chaplin 1992, Shadowlands 1993 (BAFTA Alexander Korda Award for Outstanding Br Film of the Year), In Love and War 1997, Grey Owl 2000; Books In Search of Gandhi (1982), Richard Attenborough’s Chorus Line (with Diana Carter, 1986), Cry Freedom A Pictorial Record (1987); Recreations collecting paintings and sculpture, listening to music, watching football; Clubs Garrick, Beefsteak;
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