This month’s update adds thirteen new articles covering DNA researchers, musicologists, and women in politics, diplomacy, authorship, and teaching.
Read the summary of new content and review of the 360 lives added in 2020 here.
New and updated subjects - December 2020
Cecil [née Alderson], Georgina Caroline Gascoyne-, marchioness of Salisbury (1826–1899), political wife
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Dickins, Percy Charles (1921–2002), publisher and founder of the British top ten music chart
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Gellhorn, Hans Fritz (Peter) (1912–2004), conductor, pianist, and composer
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Glossop, Joseph (1793–1850), theatrical speculator and manager
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Meyer, Ernst Hermann Ludimar (1905–1988), composer and musicologist
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Prescott, Hilda Frances Margaret (1896–1972), historian and historical novelist
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Reid, Rachel Robertson (1876–1952), historian and educationalist
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Roberts, John Anthony Storm (1936–2009), ethnomusicologist and record producer
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Russell [née Rawdon], Elizabeth Anne [known as Lady William Russell] (1793–1874), hostess
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Stokes, Alexander Rawson (1919–2003), physicist
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Root, Howard Eugene (1926–2007), theologian and Church of England priest
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Villiers [née Lady Katharine Grimston], Katharine, countess of Clarendon (1810–1874), diarist and political wife
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Tuck, Oswald Thomas (1876–1950), naval officer and Japanologist
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Warrack, Grace Harriet (1855–1932), editor and translator
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Wilson, Herbert Rees (1929–2008), physicist
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