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Unclassified 1997

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o Robert Steel (31 Jul 1915 - 29 Dec 1997)
Academic
o Dorothy Maud Jeffree (17 Jun 1913 - 29 Dec 1997)
Educationalist
o Dorothy Stroud (10 Jan 1910 - 27 Dec 1997)
Garden historian
o John Whitley (7 Sep 1905 - 26 Dec 1997)
Air-Marshal
o Laurence Gower (29 Dec 1913 - 25 Dec 1997)
Academic
o Austin Whitaker (13 May 1907 - 23 Dec 1997)
Schoolmaster, classical scholar and archivist
o Hugh Edward Conway Seymour (29 Mar 1930 - 22 Dec 1997)
Marquis of Hertford
o Michael Lyne (23 Mar 1919 - 21 Dec 1997)
Air Vice-marshal
o Masura Ibuka (11 Apr 1908 - 19 Dec 1997)
Industrialist
o Pananayiotis Taki Vatikiotis (5 Feb 1928 - 15 Dec 1997)
Middle east scholar
o Rafael Jose Luis Fernandez de la Calzada y Ferrer (30 Aug 1914 - 13 Dec 1997)
Restaurateur
o Roslin (Ros) Margaret Ferguson Fraser (21 May 1927 - 8 Dec 1997)
Nurse
o Léon Poliakov (25 Nov 1910 - 8 Dec 1997)
Historian
o Edmund Charles Wolf Myers (12 Oct 1906 - 6 Dec 1997)
Soldier and engineer
o David Abell Wood (2 Feb 1925 - 4 Dec 1997)
Priest
o Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans (27 Mar 1960 - 30 Nov 1997)
Historian
o Ron Gulliford (8 Dec 1920 - 30 Nov 1997)
Educationalist
o William Perrie (11 Apr 1918 - 15 Nov 1997)
Prison governor
o Phillipo Seed (14 May 1930 - 6 Nov 1997)
Social work academic
o Wilfrid Ewart Oulton (27 Jul 1911 - 31 Oct 1997)
Airman
o Alfred Leslie Rowse (4 Dec 1903 - 3 Oct 1997)
Historian
o Sayed Mutawli ad-Darsh (26 Dec 1930 - 25 Sep 1997)
Imam, scholar and broadcaster
o Bryan Woods (7 Feb 1921 - 22 Sep 1997)
Soldier and clerk
o Eric William Hunter Christie (18 Aug 1922 - 22 Sep 1997)
Barrister
o Tommy Cecil (25 May 1946 - 21 Sep 1997)
Ferryman
o Clive Brain (13 Dec 1939 - 19 Sep 1997)
Educationalist
o John Seldon Whale (19 Dec 1896 - 17 Sep 1997)
Theologian
o Myra McCulloch (19 Apr 1949 - 9 Sep 1997)
Teacher academic and administrator
o Philippe Rossillon (1931 - 6 Sep 1997)
Administrator
o Phillip Humphrey Vellacott (16 Jan 1907 - 24 Aug 1997)
Classicist
o Douglas Gray (8 Oct 1922 - 7 Aug 1997)
Archivist
o Ulrich Ernst Simon (21 Sep 1913 - 31 Jul 1997)
Theologian
o Margaret Farrer (23 Feb 1914 - 25 Jul 1997)
Midwife
o Emilio Azcarraga Milmo (8 Sep 1930 - 16 Apr 1997)
Media tycoon
o Laxmishankar Pathak (1924 - 31 Mar 1997)
Food retailer
o Michael Hollings (30 Dec 1921 - 21 Feb 1997)
Catholic priest and crusader
o John Richard Patterson (18 May 1945 - 5 Feb 1997)
Businessman
o William Geoffrey Biddle (7 May 1917 - 3 Feb 1997)
Bomb disposal expert
o Peter Morris (3 Sep 1946 - 1 Feb 1997)
Historian of France
o Pietro Cavallero (1928 - 28 Jan 1997)
Bandit
o Vivien Signy (3 Feb 1916 - 28 Jan 1997)
Nurse
o Margaret Hesse (18 Mar 1913 - 26 Jan 1997)
Princess of Hesse and the Rhine
o Callum Alexander MacDonald (11 Nov 1947 - 24 Jan 1997)
Historian
o Michael Duane (25 Jan 1915 - 21 Jan 1997)
Educationalist
o Edith Haisman (27 Oct 1896 - 20 Jan 1997)
Titanic survivor
o George Armin Goyder (22 Jun 1908 - 19 Jan 1997)
Businessman and social philosopher
o Stephen Fitz-Simon (5 Mar 1937 - 16 Jan 1997)
Entrepreneur
o José Ignacio Domecq (31 Jul 1914 - 15 Jan 1997)
Wine maker


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