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2nd Lieutenant Leslie Lisney was born in Bray in County Dublin to an English father and an Irish mother. His father, Arthur Lisney, had been a land surveyor and set up an estate agents called Lisney a …
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Arthur Abraham Lawson was born on 19 April 1922, the second of four sons of Jack (Jacob) Lawson, a jeweller who later became a gentleman’s tailor, and his wife Rachel, eldest child of Solomon Gordon ( …
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On Friday 9 May 2025, during the break between the Ladies’ and the Gentleman’s Varsity Matches at Lord’s, I fell into conversation with Bob Barker, a retired policeman who has been a Pavilion steward …
