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Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Ronald Searle, British cartoonist (St Trinian's School, Molesworth), died he was 91.

Ronald William Fordham Searle CBE, RDI was a British artist and satirical cartoonist died he was 91.. He is perhaps best remembered as the creator of St Trinian's School and for his collaboration with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth series.

(3 March 1920 – 30 December 2011)

Biography

Searle was born in Cambridge, England, where his father was a porter at Cambridge Railway Station. He started drawing at the age of five and left school at the age of 15. He trained at Cambridge College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) for two years.
In April 1939, realizing that war was inevitable, he abandoned his art studies to enlist in the Royal Engineers. In January 1942, he was stationed in Singapore. After a month of fighting in Malaya, Singapore fell to the Japanese, and he was taken prisoner along with his cousin Tom Fordham Searle. He spent the rest of the war a prisoner, first in Changi Prison and then in the Kwai jungle, working on the Siam-Burma Death Railway. Searle contracted both beri-beri and malaria during his incarceration, which included numerous beatings, and his weight dropped to less than 40 kilograms. He was liberated in late 1945 with the final defeat of the Japanese. Immediately after the war, he served as a courtroom artist at the Nuremberg trials.
He married the journalist Kaye Webb in 1947; they had twins, Kate and Johnny. In 1961, he moved to Paris, leaving his family and later marrying Monica Koenig, a painter, theatre and jewellery designer.[2] After 1975, Searle and his wife lived and worked in the mountains of Haute Provence.
Searle died on 30 December 2011, aged 91.

Early work as war artist

Although Searle published the first St Trinian's cartoon in the magazine Lilliput in 1941, his professional career really begins with his documentation of the brutal camp conditions of his period as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese in World War II in a series of drawings that he hid under the mattresses of prisoners dying of cholera. Searle recalled, "I desperately wanted to put down what was happening, because I thought if by any chance there was a record, even if I died, someone might find it and know what went on." But Searle survived, along with approximately 300 of his drawings. Liberated late in 1945, Searle returned to England where he published several of the drawings in fellow prisoner Russell Braddon's The Naked Island. Another of Searle's fellow prisoners later recounted, "If you can imagine something that weighs six stone or so, is on the point of death and has no qualities of the human condition that aren’t revolting, calmly lying there with a pencil and a scrap of paper, drawing, you have some idea of the difference of temperament that this man had from the ordinary human being."[3]
Most of these drawings appear in his 1986 book, Ronald Searle: To the Kwai and Back, War Drawings 1939-1945.[4] In the book, Searle also wrote of his experiences as a prisoner, including the day he woke up to find a dead friend on either side of him, and a live snake underneath his head:
"You can’t have that sort of experience without it directing the rest of your life. I think that’s why I never really left my prison cell, because it gave me my measuring stick for the rest of my life... Basically all the people we loved and knew and grew up with simply became fertiliser for the nearest bamboo."
At least one of his drawings is on display at the Changi Museum and Chapel, Singapore, but the majority of his originals are in the permanent collection of the Imperial War Museum, London, along with the works of other POW artists. The best known of these are John Mennie, Jack Bridger Chalker, Philip Meninsky and Ashley George Old.

Magazines, books, and films

Searle produced an extraordinary volume of work during the 1950s, including drawings for Life, Holiday and Punch. His cartoons appeared in The New Yorker, the Sunday Express and the News Chronicle. He compiled more St Trinian's books, which were based on his sister's school and other girls' schools in Cambridge. He collaborated with Geoffrey Willans on the Molesworth books (Down With Skool!, 1953, and How to be Topp, 1954), and with Alex Atkinson on travel books. In addition to advertisements and posters, Searle drew the title backgrounds of the Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder film The Happiest Days of Your Life.[3]
After moving to Paris in 1961, he worked more on reportage for Life and Holiday and less on cartoons. He also continued to work in a broad range of media and created books (including his well-known cat books), animated films and sculpture for commemorative medals, both for the French Mint and the British Art Medal Society.[5][6] Searle did a considerable amount of designing for the cinema, and in 1965, he completed the opening, intermission and closing credits for the comedy film Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines as well as the 1969 film Monte Carlo or Bust. In 1975, the full-length cartoon Dick Deadeye, or Duty Done was released. It is based on the character and songs from H.M.S. Pinafore.[7] Animated by a number of artists both British and French, it is considered by some to be his greatest achievement, although Searle himself detested the result.

Archives

In 2010, he gave about 2,200 of his works as permanent loans to Wilhelm Busch Museum Hannover (Germany), now renamed Deutsches Museum für Karikatur und Zeichenkunst. The ancient Summer palace of George 1st, this Museum holds Searle's archives.

Awards

Searle received much recognition for his work, especially in America, including the National Cartoonists Society's Advertising and Illustration Award in 1959 and 1965, the Reuben Award in 1960, their Illustration Award in 1980 and their Advertising Award in 1986 and 1987. Searle was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2004.[3] In 2007, he was decorated with one of France's highest awards, the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur, and in 2009, he received the German Order of Merit.

Influence

His work has had a great deal of influence, particularly on American cartoonists, including Pat Oliphant,[8] Matt Groening,[9] Hilary Knight,[10] and the animators of Disney's 101 Dalmatians.[11]
He was an early influence on John Lennon's drawing style which featured in the books In His Own Write and A Spaniard in the Works.[12]

Bibliography

St Trinian's

  • Hurrah For St Trinians, 1948
  • The Female Approach: The Belles of St. Trinian's and Other Cartoons, 1950
  • Back To The Slaughterhouse, and Other Ugly Moments, 1951
  • The Terror of St Trinian's, or Angela's Prince Charming, 1952 (with Timothy Shy (D. B. Wyndham-Lewis))
  • Souls in Torment, 1953 (preface by Cecil Day-Lewis)
  • The St Trinian's Story, 1959 (with Kaye Webb)
  • St Trinian's: The Cartoons, 2007
  • St. Trinian's: The Entire Appalling Business, 2008

Molesworth

  • Down With Skool!: A Guide to School Life for Tiny Pupils and Their Parents, 1953 (with Geoffrey Willans)
  • How to be Topp: A Guide to Sukcess for Tiny Pupils, Including All There is to Kno About Space, 1954 (with Geoffrey Willans)
  • Whizz for Atomms: A Guide to Survival in the 20th Century for Fellow Pupils, their Doting Maters, Pompous Paters and Any Others who are Interested, 1956 (with Geoffrey Willans) Published in the U.S. as Molesworth's Guide to the Atommic Age
  • Back in the Jug Agane, 1959 (with Geoffrey Willans)
  • The Compleet Molesworth, 1958 (collection) Molesworth (1999 Penguin reprint)

Other works

  • Forty Drawings (1946)
  • White Coolie, 1947 (with Ronald Hastain)
  • This England 1946-1949, 1949 (edited by Audrey Hilton)
  • The Stolen Journey, 1950 (with Oliver Philpot)
  • An Irishman's Diary, 1950 (with Patrick Campbell)
  • Dear Life, 1950 (with H. E. Bates)
  • Paris Sketchbook, 1950 (with Kaye Webb) (repr. 1958)
  • A Sleep of Prisoners, 1951 (with Christopher Fry)
  • Life in Thin Slices, 1951 (with Patrick Campbell)
  • The Naked Island, 1952 (with Russell Braddon)
  • It Must be True, 1952 (with Denys Parsons)
  • London—So Help Me!, 1952 (with Winifred Ellis)
  • The Diverting History of John Gilpin, 1953 (text by William Cowper)
  • Looking at London and People Worth Meeting, 1953 (with Kaye Webb)
  • The Dark is Light Enough, 1954 (with Christopher Fry)
  • Patrick Campbells Omnibus, 1954 (with Patrick Campbell)
  • The Journal Of Edwin Carp, 1954 (edited by Richard Haydn)
  • Modern Types, 1955 (with Geoffrey Gorer)
  • The Rake's Progress, 1955
  • Merry England, Etc, 1956
  • Anglo-Saxon Attitudes, 1956 (with Angus Wilson)
  • The Big City or the New Mayhew , 1958 (with Alex Atkinson)
  • The Dog's Ear Book, 1958 (with Geoffrey Willans)
  • USA for Beginners, 1959 (with Alex Atkinson)
  • Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, 1959 (translation by Robert Graves)
  • By Rocking Horse Across Russia, 1960 (with Alex Atkinson)
  • Penguin Ronald Searle, 1960
  • Refugees 1960: A Report in Words and Pictures, 1960 (with Kaye Webb)
  • The Biting Eye of Andre Francois (1960)
  • Which Way Did He Go?, 1961
  • A Christmas Carol, 1961 (with Charles Dickens)
  • The 13 Clocks and the Wonderful O, 1962 (with James Thurber)
  • Searle In The Sixties, 1964
  • From Frozen North to Filthy Lucre, 1964
  • Haven't We Met Before Somewhere?, 1966
  • Searle's Cats, 1967
  • The Square Egg, 1968
  • Take One Toad, 1968
  • This Business of Bomfog, 1969 (with Madelaine Duke)
  • Monte Carlo Or Bust, 1969 (with E. W. Hildick)
  • Hello, where did all the people go?, 1969
  • The Second Coming of Toulouse-Lautrec, 1969
  • Secret Sketchbook, 1969
  • The Great Fur Opera: Annals of the Hudson's Bay Company 1670-1970, 1970 (with Kildare Dobbs)[13]
  • Scrooge, 1970 (with Elaine Donaldson)
  • Mr. Lock of St. James's Street, 1971 (with Frank Whitbourn)
  • The Addict, 1971
  • More Cats, 1975
  • Dick Dead Eye, 1975 (after Gilbert and Sullivan)
  • Paris! Paris!, 1977 (with Irwin Shaw)
  • Zodiac, 1977
  • Ronald Searle, 1978
  • The King of Beasts & Other Creatures, 1980
  • The Situation is Hopeless, 1980
  • Winning the Restaurant Game, 1980 (with Jay Jacobs)
  • Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer With Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle, 1981
  • Ronald Searle's Big Fat Cat Book, 1982
  • The Illustrated Winespeak, 1983
  • Ronald Searle in Perspective, 1983
  • Ronald Searle's Golden Oldies 1941 - 1961, 1985
  • Something in the Cellar, 1986
  • To the Kwai and Back: War Drawings 1939-1945 (1986)
  • Ronald Searle's Non-Sexist Dictionary, 1988
  • Ah Yes, I Remember It Well...: Paris 1961-1975, 1988
  • Slightly Foxed But Still Desirable: Ronald Searle's Wicked World of Book Collecting, 1989
  • Marquis De Sade Meets Goody Two-Shoes, 1994
  • The Tales of Grandpa Cat, 1994 (with Lee Wardlaw)
  • The Hatless Man, 1995 (with Sarah Kortum)
  • A French Affair : The Paris Beat, 1965-1998, 1999 (with Mary Blume)
  • Wicked Etiquette, 2000 (with Sarah Kortum)
  • Ronald Searle in Le Monde, 2001
  • Railway of Hell: A Japanese POW's Account of War, Capture and Forced Labour, 2002 (with Reginald Burton)
  • Searle's Cats, 2005 (New and Expanded Edition, all illustrations are new)
  • The Scrapbook Drawings", 2005
  • Cat O' Nine Tales: And Other Stories, 2006 (with Jeffrey Archer)
  • Beastly Feasts: A Mischievous Menagerie in Rhyme, 2007 (with Robert Forbes)
  • More Scraps & Watteau Revisited, 2008
  • Let's Have a Bite!: A Banquet of Beastly Rhymes, 2010 (with Robert Forbes)
  • What! Already?: Searle at 90, 2010
  • Les Très Riches Heures de Mrs Mole, 2011


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Ricardo Legorreta, Mexican architect, UIA Gold Medal recipient, died from cancer he was 80.

Ricardo Legorreta Vilchis[1] was a Mexican architect died from cancer he was 80.. He was a prolific designer of private houses, public buildings and master plans in Mexico, the United States and some other countries.[2]
He was awarded the prestigious UIA Gold Medal in 1999,[3] the AIA Gold Medal in 2000, and the Praemium Imperiale in 2011.

(May 7, 1931 – December 30, 2011)

Life and career

Ricardo Legorreta was born on May 7, 1931, in Mexico City. He studied architecture at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, from where he graduated in 1953. After working for five years with José Villagrán García, he established his own office in 1963.[2]

Architectural expression

Legorreta was a disciple of Luis Barragán and carried Barragan's ideas to a wider realm.[citation needed] Barragan, in the 1940s and 1950s amalgamated tradition and the modern movement in architecture yet his work is mostly limited to domestic architecture.[citation needed] Legorreta applied elements of Barragan's architecture in his work including bright colors, play of light and shadow, and solid Platonic geometric shapes.[citation needed] One of the important contributions of Legorreta has been the use of these elements in other building types such as hotels, factories as well as in commercial and educational buildings.[citation needed] His most famous works are the Camino Real Hotel in Mexico City, the IBM Factory in Guadalajara and the Cathedral of Managua.[citation needed]

Works


Fountain in Pershing Square, Los Angeles

San Antonio Public Library, Texas, 1995


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Richard Lainhart, American artist and composer, died from complications after surgery he was 58.

Richard Lainhart was an American composer, performer, and filmmaker died from complications after surgery he was 58.. He is best known as a composer of electronic music that combines analog and digital instrumentation with extended performance techniques[1] derived from traditional acoustic instruments. Lainhart's music is particularly associated with the renaissance of modular analog synthesis,[2] and frequently performed with a Buchla 200e modular synthesizer controlled by a Haken Audio Continuum multidimensional keyboard controller.


(February 14, 1953 – December 30, 2011)

Early influences

Originally from Vestal, New York, Lainhart studied electronic music at the State University of New York (Binghamton) from 1971-1973. In 1973 he worked with director Nicholas Ray on the soundtrack to one of Ray's final films, We Can't Go Home Again, although Lainhart's score was not used in the final version. Lainhart earned his bachelor's degree in music from the State University at New York at Albany, where he studied composition and electronic music with composer Joel Chadabe and worked extensively with the Coordinated Electronic Music Studio (CEMS), at the time the largest integrated Moog modular synthesizer system in the world.[3]
While a student at Albany, Lainhart assisted and performed with many celebrated guest composers, including John Cage, David Tudor, Phill Niblock, David Behrman, Beth Anderson, Luis de Pablo, Harley Gaber, Daniel Goode, and Giuseppe Englert.
Throughout his early musical career, Lainhart mastered numerous traditional instruments in addition to his electronic explorations, playing bass in several rock bands and eventually heading the popular swing jazz ensemble, Doc Scanlon and The Rhythm Boys, performing on mallet instruments and keyboards.[4]

As Composer

In 1987, Lainhart released his first solo recording of electronic music, These Last Days for the Periodic Music CD label.[5] The music's characteristic blend of impressionist sonorities, minimalist structures and real-time performance techniques established an early reputation that spanned the worlds of ambient music, jazz, new age and the avant garde.[6] A follow-up recording, Polychromatic Integers, was prepared but remained unreleased until 2011 on the Periphery label.
Numerous recordings for CD, vinyl and the Internet followed since then, establishing Lainhart's reputation as one of the seminal American composers working in the electronic medium.[7] In all, Lainhart composed over 150 electronic and acoustic works, utilizing virtually every extension of electronic and acoustic instrumentation. In 2001, a retrospective of Lainhart's early works, 10,000 Shades Of Blue, was released on the XI label.

Later works

In 2008, Lainhart was commissioned by the Electronic Music Foundation to contribute a work to New York Soundscape. In 2009, he was one of 200 electric guitarists who performed in the US premiere of Rhys Chatham's "A Crimson Grail" at Lincoln Center in New York City. In July 2010, he performed as a featured electronic artist at Avantgarde Festival Schiphorst 2010 in Schiphorst, Germany.
As a synthesist, Lainhart has enjoyed a fruitful series of musical collaborations with celebrated Dream Theater keyboardist Jordan Rudess, including a DVD of duets entitled A Fistful Of Patchcords and several independent CDs.

Films And multimedia

Lainhart's animations and short films have been shown at festivals in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Korea, and online at Souvenirs From Earth, ResFest, The New Venue, The Bitscreen, and Streaming Cinema 2.0.
His film A Haiku Setting won awards in several categories at the 2002 International Festival of Cinema and Technology in Toronto. In 2009, he was awarded a Film & Media grant by the New York State Council on the Arts for No Other Time, a full-length intermedia performance designed for a large reverberant space, combining live analog electronics with four-channel playback, and high-definition computer-animated film projection.
In January 2010, he performed as a featured live media audio-visual artist at Netmage 2010 in Bologna, Italy. In December 2010, his year-long timescape film One Year won the Deffie award for Best Experimental Film at HDFEST 2010 in Portland, OR.[8]

Discography

Solo Works

  • "These Last Days" Periodic Music CD PE-1633, 1987
  • "Ten Thousand Shades of Blue" XI Records CD XI 115, 2001
  • "White Night" Ex Ovo CD EXO1974, 2008
  • "The Luminous Air" (split with Hakobune)"Luminous Accidents", Tobira Records 10" vinyl EP, tbr 01, 2009
  • "The Course of the River" VICMOD Records CD VMD07, 2010
  • "Cranes Fly West - Limited Schiphorst Edition 2010" Ex Ovo CD, EXO004, 2010
  • "Polychromatic Integers" Periphery CD OTP2011, 2011

Compilations

  • "Red Dust" (with Signs of Life) Vacant Lot LP, 1987
  • "White Nights (Remix)""I, Mute Hummings" Ex Ovo CD EXO001, 2006
  • "Lift-off" "Galactic Hits - Musique et Science-Fiction" Vibrations Magazine #122 CD, 2010
  • "From Above" "Meditations on Light" Monochrome Vision 2-CD set, MV35, 2011
  • "Forming" "Tobira Compilation Volume 1" Tobira Records C60 cassette, tbr09, 2011

DVDs

  • A Fistful Of Patchcords (with Jordan Rudess) Airglow Music DVD AM-001, 2006

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Kim Geun-tae, South Korean politician, Minister of Health and Welfare (2004–2006), died from pneumonia and kidney failure he was 64.

Kim Geun-tae  was a democracy activist and politician of the Republic of Korea. He was born in Bucheon, Gyeonggi-do died from pneumonia and kidney failure he was 64..

(14 February 1947 – 30 December 2011)

He studied in Gyeonggi High School and entered Seoul National University and majored economics. In his college time, he began his democracy activist career against the Yushin Regime of President Park Chung-hee. He was arrested several times and served several years in prison.
Although Park Chung-hee was assassinated in 1979, the military dictatorship was succeeded by General Chun Doo-hwan in 1980. After serving full sentence, he was released. But he began to struggle against Chun's regime and founded the democracy activist group, Democratic Youth Coalation (민청련, 民靑聯) in 1983. 1985, he was arrested for profiting North Korea (which was a frequent frame-up to the democracy movement by the military government) and tortured severely for 23 days by Lee Guen An,who was an inspector of the national police.
He remembered the detail of torture and the identity of torturer, and revealed it during his trial. The government denied it at that time, but it turned out true after the military regime surrendered to the democracy movement. And Lee Geun An, who tortured Kim was wanted by the reversed political situation.
Kim was regarded as one of the most important activists in the democracy movement of the Republic of Korea and he went to politics by the recommendation of Kim Dae-jung, 1995. After Kim Dae-jung was elected the president of the Republic of Korea in 1997, he was one of candidates who could succeed Kim's presidency in the ruling party. Because of low rating, he gave up the race for presidency halfway, and supported Roh Moo-hyun, who won the presidency election in 2002. During Roh's presidency, he was a former leader of the ruling Uri Party (Now Democratic United Party), and he served as Health and Welfare Minister from 2004 to 2006. He was also member of Parliament of the Republic of Korea from 1996 until 2008.
Although his political career seemed to go well, he suffered from severe PTSD. Because of this, he refused to go to doctor or dentist, which reminded him of being tortured. Since 2006, he suffered from Parkinson's Disease, which was estimated due to the torture.
His condition got worse after 2010 to the extent that he could not attend his daughter's wedding ceremony. He collapsed from complication (brain blood thrombus) in November 2011. Kim died on 30 December 2011. He was 64.[1][2] He was buried in Moran Cemetery, Seongnam, where several notable democracy activists were buried. In 1987, he shared the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award with his wife In Jae-keun.[2]
He was played by actor Park Won-sang in the film National Security (2012).


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Sir Robert Horton, British businessman,died he was 72.


Sir Robert Horton, FRSA was a British businessman died he was 72.. He was a Director of the European Advisory Council and of Emerson Electric Company.[1] He spent 30 years working for BP, formerly British Petroleum. He became Chief Executive and Chairman of the Board of BP in March 1990, but was forced out in 1992.

(18 August 1939 – 30 December 2011)

Life

Sir Robert was the son of William Harold Horton and Dorothy Joan Horton née Baynes. He was educated at King's School, Canterbury, University College, Dundee, then part of the University of St Andrews, but now the University of Dundee, and graduated the MIT Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellows in 1971.[1]
He was Chairman of the Tate Gallery Foundation 1988-92 and Business in the Arts 1988-96. He was a Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts. He was Chancellor of the University of Kent from 1990–1995 and a portrait of him hangs in the Senate Building there. He was also a Governor of King's School, Canterbury 1984-2005.[1][3]

Career

Sir Robert joined BP in 1957, and from 1960 on held a series of positions in oil supply, marketing, finance, and planning. In 1980 he became Chief Executive officer of BP Chemicals International and held that position until December 1983 when he was elected to the BP Board as a Managing Director, with responsibility for finance, planning, and the Western Hemisphere.[4] On his election as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Standard Oil in April 1986, Horton resigned from BP. But following the merger of BP and Standard Oil in July 1987, he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of BP America, Inc. As Chairman of British Petroleum in 1990, Sir Robert Horton aimed to reorganise the company in such a way as to attract and advance outstanding personnel.[5]
He was Chairman of Railtrack from 1993–1999 and led the organisation through the early years of its existence including an industrial dispute from June to September 1994.[6] He was non-executive Chairman of Betfair from 2004 to 2006.[7]


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Monday, June 2, 2014

Dezső Garas, Hungarian actor, died he was 77.


Dezső Garas was a Hungarian actor, who appeared in over 145 films and television shows since 1956 died he was 77..
He starred in the 1993 film Whoops, which was entered into the 43rd Berlin International Film Festival.[3] Garas died in Budapest on 30 December 2011, aged 77, following a long illness.[2]

(9 September 1934 – 30 December 2011)


Selected filmography



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Muhammad Hamidullah Khan, Bangladeshi politician, died he was 74.

M. Hamidullah Khan (Bengali: এম হামিদুল্লাহ খান) (September 11, 1938 – December 30, 2011) was the Sector Commander of BDF Sector 11 Bangladesh Forces during the Bangladesh Liberation War against Pakistan in 1971 died he was 74..[1]
An Air Force officer by career, he successfully led 22,800 troops under his command of Sector 11 (Nov. 2nd 1971 to Feb. 14 1972). While Bangladesh Chief Representative at Chakulia Guerilla Training Camp, Bihar, he attended the Bangladesh Sector Commanders Conference of 1971 as one of the principal participants during the creation of the Bangladesh Forces. He commanded Sector 11 and its largest Sub-Sector 1, at Mankachar under the leadership of C-in-C General M.A.G. Osmani and received a Bangladesh government award for gallantry. As subsector commander, Squadron Leader Hamidullah planned, commanded and fought the Chilmari ( চিলমারী ) Expedition/Raid at Chilmari Upazila, crossing the mighty Ganges river by Kurigram. Popularly known as Hamidullah, he served in the Bangladesh Air Force until his early retirement from service in early 1979. The Bangladesh Government named Road 23 in the town of Banani in Dhaka after him.[2] Along with 55 other fighters, his biography was included in a CD released by the Bangladesh government.[3] Until Dec 30th 2011 he was the Executive Secretary of the Central Committee of the BNP National Executive Committee on Liberation War and Veterans Affairs. Hamidullah Khan reorganised and gave life anew to a party unit of BNP for the post-independence generation of Bangladesh called Jatiotabadi Muktijuddher Projonmo.[4] Khan was nominated four times and elected thrice as Member of Parliament in the Bangladesh Jatiya Sangsad. He was the 36th Bangladesh Representative in 1979-80 to the United Nations General Assembly and plenary session on UN Resolutions 242 and 439 on the question of Palestine and Namibia respectively. The government of Bangladesh appointed him as Special Envoy to the UN in granting recognition to the State of Palestine. He wrote books on the history of the creation of the Bangladesh Forces and the events leading to it, BDF Sector 11 and its war operations including surrounding complexities, related events and consequences. His second book is a two-volume set about the Bangladesh Liberation War along with two documentaries. Upon his death, Muhammad Hamidullah Khan was given a state funeral[5] with a military guard of honor.[6]

Early life

M. Hamidullah Khan was born to a political family in Medini Mondal village, Louhajong Ward, in the town of Bikrampur, (known to be the oldest capital of Bengal before Bhawal and Sonargaon) southern Dhaka, in then Bengal Province of the colonial British Empire in South Asia. He is the second of the nine children (one deceased in infancy) born to Muhammad Dabiruddin Khan and Jasimunnesa Khan. His father was a Forest Ranger in the British Imperial Forest Service under the Bengal Forest Department and later Assam Forest Department in South Asia.[7] Hamidullah Khan's childhood was divided between living in the rural town of Bikrampur, Dhaka, and the city proper. After primary school at Silver Jubilee Anglo-Bengali Government English School, Guwahati, Assam, and secondary school at Louhajong A.T Institute, he moved out with his parents and settled in Mughaltully Ward of Dhaka located by the Buriganga River in 1954. With the departure of the British and official creation of Pakistan and India in 1947, Hamidullah Khan's father opted for service with the government of India rather than Pakistan. Though the family remained in Dhaka (East Pakistan), Dabiruddin Khan later joined them after retirement in 1957. Hamidullah spent his adolescent years in southern Dhaka until he joined the Pakistan Air Force. He married Rabeya Sultana Khan on August 1, 1965, at Dhaka, the third daughter of Mokbul Hossain Siddiqi, then Commissioner (East Pakistan) of Taxes and Excise. After Bangladesh became independent in 1971, Hamidullah continued service with the Bangladesh Air Force, and remaining family members permanently resettled in "Bikrampur House", Dhaka Cantonment. Their second son Ziad Hamid Khan (Ronny) drowned while boating when a small boat capsized. Hamidullah Khan is survived by two sons, Murad Hamid Khan (Sonny) and Tariq Hamid Khan (Konny).[8]

Education

Hamidullah spent his adolescence in Dhaka and enrolled in the Jagannath College there in 1954. After completion of senior secondary school in 1956, he studied at the same college for the Bachelor of Arts in Commerce (General). In the year 1959, while preparations were finalised to study law, he accepted an appointment instead as a candidate in the Pakistan Air Force Academy, and reported to Risalpur in the 34th GD(P)as a flight cadet.[8]

Early career

Pakistan Air Force - M. Hamidullah Khan was Commissioned a Pilot Officer in June 1962 in Administration and Special Duties (Br.). He served in the Pakistan Air Force at bases in Lahore, Chaklala, Sargodha, Karachi, Peshawar, and finally Dhaka, then East Pakistan. In late autumn of 1970, his last assignment in the PAF, Flight Lieutenant Hamidullah was transferred to Pakistan Eastern Zone as Assistant Provost Marshal and Commanding Officer No 5. P and S Unit (Independent) with additional responsibility as Director of Security, Tejgaon International Airport, Dhaka. He was selected for examination and board for promotion to Squadron Leader in July 1970. In August, during the Bangladesh war of independence, Hamidullah Khan received a Battlefield Promotion to Squadron Leader by order of the BDF C-in-C General M.A.G. Osmani, while serving as Sub-Sector Commander, Sub-Sector 1 at Mankachar of BDF Sector 11.

Bangladesh Liberation War (1971)

Reporting to Bangladesh Interim Government HQ 8 Theatre Rd, Calcutta.
Induction Bangladesh Forces
Colonel Muhammad Ataul Gani Osmani, C-in-C Bangladesh Forces
Chakulia Guerilla Training Camp
Major Ziaur Rahman
Creation and Establishment of Sector 11 and Z - Force at Teldhala
No.1 Sub Sector Commander (Mankarchar)
Bangladesh Sector Commanders Conference 1971
Guerilla Expeditions I -
Landings, Assaults, Ambushes and Raids
Sub-Sector Commander Captain Abu Taher, later Major, Mahendraganj-Sector HQ
Banga Bir General M.A.G. Osmani - Inspection of Mankarchar and Secured Zones
Sector Commander
Guerilla Expeditions II -
Landings, Assaults, Ambushes and Raids
- Chilmari Expedition
Arrived at Dhaka 14th Dec
Bangladesh Sector Commanders Conference 1972 -
Gallantry Award Committee
Sector Dissolvement
Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Bangladesh government

Ministry of Defence - Bangladesh Air Force: In 1973 Squadron Leader M. Hamidullah khan received his final promotion to Wing Commander. In September 1978, while in LPR, he joined the Bangladesh Nationalist Party answering the call to public service from his war colleague Ziaur Rahman. Hamiullah officially retired from Bangladesh Air Force (BAF) on January 10, 1979. While in BAF Directorates served in were BAF, Headquarters, Dhaka Cantonment; Intelligence and Security; Air Education and Training. He also held the position of Chief of Air Force Security(Provost Marshall), Director Air Intelligence and also Director Recruiting, Air HQ. He was Officer Commanding Administration Branch at BAF Base Bashar.[citation needed]
Jatiyo Sangsad (National Assembly) - Member of Parliament
After retiring from military service he continued in public service in the legislative branch of Bangladesh government. He was elected Member of Parliament for
Dhaka - 5 (Bikrampur) in the Second Parliament: 2 years 11 months (2 April 1979 – 24 March 1982)
Munshigonj - 2 (Louhajong-Shiraj di Khan) Fifth Parliament: 4 years 9 months (5 March 1991 – 24 December 1995)
Munshigonj - 2 (Louhajong-Shiraj di Khan) Sixth Parliament: 12 days (19 March 1996 – 30 March 1996)
Dhaka - 15 (Mirpur-Kafrul) Nominated - Ninth Parliamentary Elections: 29 December 2008 (0 Days)
He represented Bangladesh during the 36th Session of the United Nations General Assembly. He served in different positions in Bangladesh government throughout his active life. Hamidullah served as chairman of Bangladesh Post Graduate Medical Research Centre (1979–1982), Bangladesh Freedom Fighters Welfare Trust (1993–1996), Janata Bank (1995–1996). He re-emerged from long absence from parliamentary politics and received nomination for the electoral seat of Dhaka-15 (Mirpur and Kafrul) for the 9th Parliamentary General Elections held on Dec 29th 2008.[9]

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