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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 11.0 °C and 30.2 °C and averaged 20.7 °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.
      • April 4 » The Schutzstaffel (SS) is founded under Adolf Hitler's Nazi party in Germany.
      • April 10 » The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is first published in New York City, by Charles Scribner's Sons.
      • April 26 » Paul von Hindenburg defeats Wilhelm Marx in the second round of the German presidential election to become the first directly elected head of state of the Weimar Republic.
      • May 25 » Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching human evolution in Tennessee.
      • September 3 » USSShenandoah, the United States' first American-built rigid airship, was destroyed in a squall line over Noble County, Ohio. Fourteen of her 42-man crew perished, including her commander, Zachary Lansdowne.
      • September 8 » Rif War: Spanish forces including troops from the Foreign Legion under Colonel Francisco Franco landing at Al Hoceima, Morocco.

    Day of marriage July 7, 1948

    • The temperature on July 7, 1948 was between 8.9 °C and 17.3 °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.
      • April 9 » Jorge Eliécer Gaitán's assassination provokes a violent riot in Bogotá (the Bogotazo), and a further ten years of violence in Colombia.
      • April 28 » Igor Stravinsky conducted the premiere of his American ballet, Orpheus at the New York City Center.
      • May 20 » Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek wins the 1948 Republic of China presidential election and is sworn in as the first President of the Republic of China at Nanjing.
      • June 26 » Shirley Jackson's short story The Lottery is published in The New Yorker magazine.
      • 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.
      • September 18 » Operation Polo is terminated after the Indian Army accepts the surrender of the army of Hyderabad.

    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.
      • February 17 » Eighteen people are killed and 78 injured in a stampede at a Mardi Gras parade in Haiti.
      • February 22 » A ferry carrying 100 passengers capsizes in the Padma River, killing 70 people.
      • June 27 » Formosa Fun Coast fire: A dust fire occurs at a recreational water park in Taiwan, killing 15 people and injuring 497 others, 199 critically.
      • July 17 » At least 120 people are killed and 130 injured by a suicide bombing in Diyala Governorate, Iraq.
      • July 20 » The United States and Cuba resume full diplomatic relations after five decades.
      • August 26 » Two U.S. journalists are shot and killed by a disgruntled former coworker while conducting a live report in Moneta, Virginia.
    

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