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Prime Minister has appointed Dr Simon Thurley CBE as Chair of National Heritage Memorial Fund and National Lottery Heritage Fund
Dr. Simon Thurley is Provost of Gresham College, London’s oldest higher education establishment, founded in 1597 to give free public lectures in the City. He serves on the Sponsor Board and the Delivery Authority for the Restoration and Renewal of the Houses of Parliament, is chairman of Lloyd-Webber Theatres’ restoration of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane and is a trustee of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation and the British Library. He has been patron of the London Parks and Garden Trust since 2004, and played a role in setting up the Canal and River Trust, of which he was a trustee until 2015.
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Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers like St. Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died aged 80 on December 18 at his home in West Cork, Ireland.
In May 1976, Severin left Ireland on his most audacious voyage: following in the wake of St. Brendan, a sixth-century monk, who, with a party of other monks, is said to have made a spectacular journey from Ireland across the Atlantic to North America, “Promised Land”, in a leather-wrapped boat.
Tim Severin, seafaring recreator of legendary journeys, dies aged 80
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Tim Severin, a British adventurer who for 40 years meticulously replicated the journeys of real and mythic explorers such as St Brendan the Navigator, Sinbad the Sailor and Marco Polo, died on December 18 at his home in West Cork, Ireland. He was 80.
His daughter, Ida Ashworth, said the cause was cancer.
In May 1976, Severin left Ireland on his most audacious voyage: following in the wake of St Brendan, a sixth-century monk, who, with a party of other monks, is said to have made a spectacular journey from Ireland across the Atlantic to the Promised Land in a leather-wrapped boat.
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