What's New: April 2023
April 12, 2023
In the latest update, described in the introduction by Sir David Cannadine, we include the biographies of 247 people who died in 2019 and who left their mark on the UK's national life, including Mary Warnock, Ginger Baker, and Andrea Levy.
From April 2023, the Oxford DNB offers biographies of 64,820 men and women who have shaped the British past, contained in 62,408 articles. 11,988 biographies include a portrait image of the subject—researched in partnership with the National Portrait Gallery, London.
As ever, we have a free selection of these new entries, together with a full list of the new biographies.
Beamish, (Maria) Pia [née von Roretz; first married name McHenry], Lady Chelwood, political hostess [see under Beamish, Tufton Victor Hamilton, Baron Chelwood]
Lean, Sandra Joan [née Bloom; previous married name Lourenço, Cooke], Lady Lean, art dealer and writer [see under Lean, Sir David]
Leishman, Marista Muriel [née Reith], educationist and biographer [see under Reith, John Charles Walsham, first Baron Reith]
Maddox [née Murphy], Brenda Lee Power, Lady Maddox, biographer and journalist [see under Maddox, Sir John Royden]
Pevsner, Dietrich [Dieter], publisher and translator [see under Pevsner, Sir Nikolaus Bernhard Leon]
Roe [née Wallis], Mary Eyre Stopes, psychologist and biographer [see under Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville]
