Obituaries

Richard Todd, actor and soldier HE EPITOMISED the stiff upper lip officer in British war movies of the 1950s: courageous, wistfully humorous and modestly brave.

George Davidson, lifeboat coxswain GEORGE Cossar Davidson, retired coxswain of Kirkcudbright lifeboat, was one of six children, and began his career with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution as a volunteer shore signalman aged only 14.

Anthony du Gard Pasley, garden designer and clan president ANTHONY du Gard Pasley was a garden designer and landscape architect of Irish descent who lived like an English gentleman and became president of a clan society in Scotland.

Lino Lacedelli, mountaineer LINO Lacedelli, one of history's greatest mountaineers, was one of the first two climbers to reach the summit of K2, the world's second highest peak and among the most treacherous.

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