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John Anthony Curry, OBE (9 September 1949 – 15 April 1994) [2] was a British figure skater. He was the 1976 European , World and Olympic Champion . He was noted for combining ballet and modern dance influences into his skating.
Jun 18, 2017 · The lives of artists are a constant source of fascination and the life of Staffordshire born artist of John Currie must rank amongst the highest. Born in 1884 in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Currie’s early promise as a painter was cut short by a life marked by the tragedy of loving too hard and too strong. John Currie, Self Portrait,1905, The ...
Jul 26, 2014 · On the morning of December 30, John’s father’s lifeless body was found by a chambermaid in a bedroom at the Great Western Hotel near Paddington station in London. At the inquest a fortnight later, it was ruled that ‘Joseph Curry, 50, an engineer, had taken his own life by poisoning, self-administered’.
Feb 28, 2022 · Curry, who died of an AIDS-related heart attack aged 44 in 1994, remains an inspiration to the LGBT+ community today. As part of LGBT history month, BBC Sport looks at how Curry changed his sport...
Jul 26, 2014 · A new biography reveals John Curry's bullying father and wicked taunts about his sexuality scarred him. On a cold winter’s evening in February 1976, 20 million Britons turned on their TVs to ...
Mar 13, 2015 · Potteries-born Currie, trained as a ceramics decorator, was a little older than his fellow “new primitive” Slade painters Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson, Edward Wadsworth, Adrian Allinson and Stanley Spencer. (“Primitive” in the Italianate sense, that is.)
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John Currie was the son of Irish emigrants to England. The story of his life has been told in various ways, usually in the context of his connection with eminent contemporaries such as Mark Gertler and CRW Nevinson.
