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1. www.bbc.co.uk › news › articlesAlex Salmond laid to rest in funeral near family home - BBC News

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   4 days ago · Salmond died of a heart attack, aged 69, while attending a conference in North Macedonia just over two weeks ago. ... "Uncle Alex was an important person to many, but to us he was a husband, a ...

2. www.pressreader.com › uk › the-daily-telegraph‘My brother set me 50 tasks before he died’ - PressReader

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   Jun 19, 2021 · Their mother is Joan Tolkien, 76, JRR Tolkien’s granddaugh­ter, who now lives in Oxford; their father, Hugh Baker, 81, lives in Chester. They split up when Royd was a teenager, and he took the name of Tolkien.

3. www.bbc.com › news › liveNavalny's team says Russian authorities are hiding his body - BBC

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   Feb 16, 2024 · The 47-year-old died on Friday at 14:17 local time, according to a document given to his mother, Navalny's spokesperson Kira Yarmysh said. But no cause of death has been given, and his team...

4. britishheritage.org › en › j-r-r-tolkienJR Tolkien - The Lord of LOTR - British Heritage

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   The Tolkiens had four children: John Francis Reuel Tolkien (17 November 1917 – 22 January 2003), Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien (22 October 1920 – 27 February 1984), Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) and Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien (born 18 June 1929).

5. www.bbc.com › culture › article'Human stories are always about one thing – death': Why the ...

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   Jul 29, 2024 · When he was three, during a visit home to see his English family with his mother and his younger brother Hilary, his father – who had planned to join them – unexpectedly died of rheumatic fever.

6. www.asc.upenn.edu › graduate-student › alex-tolkinAlex Tolkin | Annenberg - Annenberg School for Communication ...

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   Alex Tolkin is a joint Ph.D. student at the Annenberg School for Communication and the Department of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. His research examines the role of ostensibly apolitical media on American political beliefs, especially beliefs about competition.

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   How many children did The Tolkiens have?

   • The Tolkiens had four children: John Francis Reuel Tolkien (17 November 1917 – 22 January 2003), Michael Hilary Reuel Tolkien (22 October 1920 – 27 February 1984), Christopher John Reuel Tolkien (21 November 1924 – 16 January 2020) and Priscilla Mary Anne Reuel Tolkien (born 18 June 1929).

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   How did Tolkien die?

   • In the same year Oxford University gave him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. He had the name Luthien engraved on Edith's tombstone at Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford. When Tolkien died 21 months later on 2 September 1973 from a bleeding ulcer and chest infection, at the age of 81, he was buried in the same grave, with "Beren" added to his name.

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   Where did the Tolkien family come from?

   • The Tolkien family originated in the East Prussian town of Kreuzburg near Königsberg, which had been founded during medieval German eastward expansion, where his earliest-known paternal ancestor Michel Tolkien was born around 1620. Michel's son Christianus Tolkien (1663–1746) was a wealthy miller in Kreuzburg.

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   When did Mabel Tolkien become a Catholic?

   • Mabel Tolkien was received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1900 despite vehement protests by her Baptist family, which stopped all financial assistance to her. In 1904, when J. R. R. Tolkien was 12, his mother died of acute diabetes at Fern Cottage in Rednal, which she was renting.

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   Did Tolkien Miss Edith?

   • He missed Edith, but enjoyed being back in the city. Tolkien was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1972 New Year Honours and received the insignia of the Order at Buckingham Palace on 28 March 1972. In the same year Oxford University gave him an honorary Doctorate of Letters.

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   Who was Jr Tolkien?

   • ***TOO LONG*** JR Tolkien (1892–973) was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.

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8. www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-67732226British teen Alex Batty left mother to avoid Finland move ...

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   Dec 15, 2023 · Alex Batty, centre, disappeared with his mother, Melanie Batty, and grandfather, David Batty. Toulouse Assistant Public Prosecutor Antoine Leroy told journalists the French authorities were...