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Personal data Mary Vestey 

  • She was born on June 11, 1925.
  • She died on February 20, 2015 in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, she was 89 years old.Source 1
    Lady Mary Verney 1925-2015

    Lady Mary verneyThe College is sad to learn of the death of Lady Mary Verney, a Green Templeton College Radcliffe Common Room Member, who died peacefully on 20 February following some months of poor health.

    Mary Verney (née Vestey), is the widow of Sir Ralph Bruce Verney, who was formerly the Chair of the Radcliffe Trust and Honorary Fellow of Green College.

    She studied piano with private teachers in Oxford and elsewhere, and at the Royal Academy of Music.

    By the later decades of the last century, she had become internationally acclaimed as a fortepianist and was the first professor of fortepiano at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama where, with others, she established the Early Music department.

    Mary Verney was closely associated from its foundation in 1980 with the Hanover Band - one of the pioneering British early music ensembles which continues today to perform and add to its impressively lengthy discography.

    She performs in No.1 of this series (NIM 5003; 1982) as soloist, directing from the keyboard an historically informed performance of the first Beethoven piano concerto. Later, she promoted a much valued series of Claydon Concerts in her family home.

    Mary Verney knew Philip Bate and was a member of the committee set up to secure his original gift to the University of Oxford; these instruments now form the nucleus of the Bate Collection.

    Following her retirement to Oxford, Mary Verney renewed her contacts with the Bate Collection as a volunteer, and an active member of The Friends of the Bate.

    Her involvement with the College began in the 1970s when her husband Sir Ralph Verney, as Chair of the Radcliffe Trust, was involved in discussions with the University about the allocation of the Radcliffe Observatory to what in the 1970s might have been called 'Radcliffe College'. Together they met the philanthropists Cecil and Ida Green, founders of Texas Instruments Inc, whose generous donation and support enabled the foundation of the former Green College that eventually commemorated their name.

    After her husband's death Mary Verney continued to take an interest in the College and attended the annual Foundation Dinner.

    Details of her funeral will be made known as soon as these are available.
    source: http://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1257-lady-mary-verney-1925-2015.html
  • She is buried in All Saints Churchyard, Middle Claydon, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England.Source 2
  • A child of Percy Charles Vestey and Dorothy Emmeline Johnson
  • This information was last updated on October 23, 2021.

Household of Mary Vestey

She is married to Ralph Bruce Verney.

They got married on July 7, 1948, she was 23 years old.


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Ancestors (and descendant) of Mary Vestey

Edmund Hoyle Vestey
1866-1953
Sarah Barker
± 1866-1940

Mary Vestey
1925-2015

1948

Ralph Bruce Verney
1915-2001

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    Sources

    1. http://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1257-lady-mary-verney-1925-2015.html
    2. Find a Grave, database en afbeeldingen (https://nl.findagrave.com/memorial/171911939/ralph-bruce-verney : geopend 23 Oktober 2021), gedenkplekpagina voor Ralph Bruce Verney (1915–2001), Find a Grave-gedenkpleknr. 171911939, citaat All Saints Churchyard, Middle Claydon, Aylesbury Vale District, Buckinghamshire, England ; Onderhouden door ColinA (bijdrager 48094681) .

    Historical events

    Birthday June 11, 1925

    • The temperature on June 11, 1925 was between 10.6 °C and 29.0 °C and averaged 19.7 °C. There was 14.5 hours of sunshine (87%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
    • In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
    • In the year 1925: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 7.3 million citizens.
      • March 21 » The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
      • April 30 » Automaker Dodge Brothers, Inc is sold to Dillon, Read & Co. for US$146million plus $50million for charity.
      • May 15 » Al-Insaniyyah, the first Arabic communist newspaper, is founded.
      • July 21 » Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150mph (241km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33mph (242km/h).
      • August 5 » Plaid Cymru is formed with the aim of disseminating knowledge of the Welsh language that is at the time in danger of dying out.
      • September 17 » Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up art.

    Day of marriage July 7, 1948

    • The temperature on July 7, 1948 was between 8.1 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 0.7 mm of rain during 0.9 hours. There was -0.1 hours of sunshine (0%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till September 4, 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from July 3, 1946 to August 7, 1948 the cabinet Beel I, with Dr. L.J.M. Beel (KVP) as prime minister.
    • From August 7, 1948 till March 15, 1951 the Netherlands had a cabinet Drees - Van Schaik with the prime ministers Dr. W. Drees (PvdA) and Mr. J.R.H. van Schaik (KVP).
    • In the year 1948: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 9.7 million citizens.
      • February 4 » Ceylon (later renamed Sri Lanka) becomes independent within the British Commonwealth.
      • February 28 » Christiansborg Cross-Roads shooting in the Gold Coast, when a British police officer opens fire on a march of ex-servicemen, killing three of them and sparking major riots and looting in Accra.
      • April 22 » Arab–Israeli War: The port city of Haifa is captured by Jewish forces.
      • June 28 » Boxer Dick Turpin beats Vince Hawkins at Villa Park in Birmingham to become the first black British boxing champion in the modern era.
      • July 1 » Muhammad Ali Jinnah (Quaid-i-Azam) inaugurates Pakistan's central bank, the State Bank of Pakistan.
      • September 12 » Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Jinzhou, Liaoshen Campaign has begun.

    Day of death February 20, 2015

    • The temperature on February 20, 2015 was between 3.4 °C and 6.5 °C and averaged 5.3 °C. There was 20.0 mm of rain during 22.9 hours. The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
    • Koning Willem-Alexander (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 2013 up to present prince from the Netherlands (also called Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
    • In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, November 5, 2012 to Thursday, October 26, 2017 the cabinet Rutte II, with Mark Rutte (VVD) as prime minister.
    • In the year 2015: Source: Wikipedia
      • The Netherlands had about 16.9 million citizens.
      • January 1 » The Eurasian Economic Union comes into effect, creating a political and economic union between Russia, Belarus, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.
      • January 3 » Boko Haram militants raze the entire town of Baga in north-east Nigeria, starting the Baga massacre and killing as many as 2,000 people.
      • March 4 » At least 34 miners die in a suspected gas explosion at the Zasyadko coal mine in the rebel-held Donetsk region of Ukraine.
      • May 3 » Two gunmen launch an attempted attack on an anti-Islam event in Garland, Texas, which was held in response to the Charlie Hebdo shooting.
      • June 26 » Five different terrorist attacks in France, Tunisia, Somalia, Kuwait, and Syria occurred on what was dubbed Bloody Friday by international media. Upwards of 750 people were either killed or injured in these uncoordinated attacks.
      • November 4 » A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba, South Sudan, killing at least 37 people.
    

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