Monday, January 01, 2007

Marmaduke Hussey - RIP

Marmaduke Hussey was a former chairman of the BBC governors who presided over the broadcasting institution for 10 of its most turbulent years.
He attended Rugby school before Trinity College, Oxford. After university he was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards and went to war. In 1943, he was machine-gunned down in Italy and lost a leg.

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