Bernice Lake, Anguillan-born Antiguan jurist, first Eastern Caribbean woman to be appointed Queen's Counsel, died she was 78.

Dame Bernice Lake , died she was 78.

 (died September 10, 2011)

was an Anguillan-born jurist and legal scholar whose career spanned more than forty years. In 1985, she became the first woman from the Eastern Caribbean to be appointed Queen's Counsel.^[1][2] Lake was also the first graduate of the University of the West Indies to receive the honor.^[1][2]
Lake was born in Anguilla and attended school on St. Kitts, but resided in Antigua for most of her life.^[1][3][4] She obtained a degree in history and graduated with honors from the University College of the West Indies at Mona in Jamaica, which later became the University of the West Indies.^[3][4]
Lake worked as a diplomat for the short-lived West Indies Federation's foreign service until the federation collapsed in 1962.^[1] Lake soon launched a second career by entering law school at UCL Faculty of Laws at University College London.^[1][3] She campaigned against apartheid in South Africa and other causes as a law student.^[4] Lake earned her Honours Degree in Law in 1967.^[4]
Lake was admitted to the bar in St. Kitts in 1967 soon after obtaining her law degree.^[4] Lake became a prominent jurist, specializing in human rights and constitutional law.^[1] Her chambers, Lake & Kentish, which she opened with attorney Joyce Kentishher niece and was later joined by Kendreth Kentish and George Lake, were located on Antigua.^[1][2] Lake was the chief architect of the 1975 Constitution of Anguilla.^[1][2][4] In 1981, she served as a member of the committee charged with framing the Constitution of Antigua and Barbuda.^[1][2] Another member of the Antiguan constitutional committee, Sydney Christian QC, said of Lake's role in drafting the document, "She was very much in the forefront of the fight for constitutional law and she was always very aggressive in her defence of the Constitution here in Antigua."^[4]
Lake was a supporter of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ),^[5] which was established in 2001.
In 2004, the government of Antigua and Barbuda bestowed knighthood and the title Dame on Lake for her contributions to contributions to the Antiguan and the Caribbean legal systems,^[4] as well as her outlook on women's rights, political rights and civil rights.^[1] The University of the West Indies awarded Lake a Honorary Doctorate in Law at its Cave Hill campus graduation in Barbados in 2007.^[1][2] In July 2011, the Eastern Caribbean Supreme Court, Anguilla Bar Association, and the other bar associations of the OECS honored her for her contributions at a joint event.^[4]
Dame Bernice Lake died at Mount St John Medical Centre in Antigua September 10, 2011, at the age of 78 after a brief illness.^[1][4][5] Her funeral was held at St Peters Parish Church in St. John's with burial in the churchyard.^[5] Dignitaries in attendance included Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Baldwin Spencer, Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda Dame Louise Lake-Tack, opposition leaders and members of the Caribbean legal community.^[5] The delegation from Anguilla included Minister of Home Affairs Walcott Richardson.^[5]
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Graham Collier, British jazz bassist, died he was 74.

James Graham Collier  was an English jazz bassist, bandleader and composer  died he was 74..

(21 February 1937 – 10 September 2011) 

Life and career

Born in Tynemouth, Northumberland, on leaving school Collier joined the British Army as a musician, spending three years in Hong Kong. He subsequently won a Down Beat magazine scholarship to the Berklee School of Music, Boston, studying with Herb Pomeroy and was its first British graduate in 1963. On his return to Britain he founded the first version of an ensemble devoted to his own compositions, Graham Collier Music, which included Kenny Wheeler, Harry Beckett and John Surman, and in later line-ups Karl Jenkins, Mike Gibbs, Art Themen and many other notable musicians.^[2] Collier was the first recipient of an Arts Council bursary for jazz, and was commissioned by festivals, groups and broadcasters across Europe, North America, Australia and the Far East. He produced 19 albums and CDs of his music and also worked in a wide range of other media: on stage plays and musicals, on documentary and fiction film, and on a variety of radio drama productions.
Collier was also an author and educator, having written seven books on jazz and given lectures and workshops around the world. As Simon Purcell noted, "Jazz education in the UK owes an enormous amount to Graham Collier (alongside Eddie Harvey and Lionel Grigson) without whom our current positions and extent of provision would been considerably harder to achieve."^[3]In 1987, Collier launched the jazz degree course at London’s Royal Academy of Music and was its artistic director until he resigned in 1999 to concentrate on his own music. In 1989, he was among the group of jazz educators who formed the International Association of Schools of Jazz, whose magazine, Jazz Changes, he co-edited for seven years. He was awarded an Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 1987 for his services to jazz.
Latterly, Collier lived on a small island in Greece,^[4] where he composed, wrote and administered his back catalogue, travelling to present concerts and workshops around the world. His book, The Jazz Composer: Moving Music Off the Paper, a philosophical look at jazz and jazz composing, was published by Northway Books in 2005, and his nineteenth CD, directing 14 Jackson Pollocks, mainly recorded in 2004, was released by the jazzcontinuum label.

Works

Discography

• Deep Dark Blue Centre. Disconforme. 1967.
• Down Another Road. Disconforme. 1969.
• Songs For My Father. Disconforme. 1970.
• Mosaics. Disconforme. 1971.
• Midnight Blue. Disconforme. 1975.
• Symphony of Scorpions. Mosaic UK. 1976.
• New Conditions. Disconforme. 1976.
• The Day of the Dead. Disconforme. 1978.
• Something British Made in Hong Kong. Mosaic UK. 1988.
• This Third Color. Orchard. 2000.
• Darius. Disconforme. 2000.
• Portraits. Disconforme. 2000.
• Bread and Circuses. Jazzprint. 2003.
• Winter Oranges. Jazzprint. 2003.
• Charles River Fragments. Jazzprint. 2005.
• Workpoints. Cuneiform. 2005.
• Hoarded Dreams. Cuneiform. 2007.
• directing 14 Jackson Pollocks. jazzcontinuum. 2009.

Books

• Jazz - A Students' and Teachers' Guide (Hardback and Paperback, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977) Translated into German, Norwegian and Italian.
• Inside Jazz (Hardback and Paperback, London: Quartet Books, 1973)
• Compositional Devices (Boston, Mass.: Berklee Press Publications, 1975)
• Cleo and John (London: Quartet Books, 1976)
• Jazz Workshop the Blues, (Universal Edition 1988) ISBN 0-900938-61-7
• Interaction – Opening Up the Jazz Ensemble (1998)
• The Jazz Composer, moving music off the paper (London: Northway Publications, 2009) ISBN 978-0-9557888-0-2

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Dušan Trbojević, Serbian composer, died he was 86.

Dušan Trbojević was a famous Serbian pianist, composer, musical writer and university professor died he was 86.

(June 13, 1925 - September 9, 2011) 

Education

Trbojević was born in Maribor, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. He studied composition with Milenko Živković at the Belgrade Music Academy, and piano with Milanka Đaja at the same institution. He graduated in 1951 (Piano Performance) and 1953 (Composition) and continued his studies of piano with Kendall Taylor at the Royal College of Music and Royal Academy of Music in London (1954–1957). Additionally, he studied in the U.S.A. (1965–1966).

Performing career

Trbojević has performed actively as a soloist, accompanist and conductor throughout Europe,as well as in the U.S.A., China, India, Iran, Egypt, Cuba, Mexico. He gave the first performances of compositions by eminent Serbian composers Vlastimir Peričić, Milutin Radenković, Vasilije Moktanjac, Petar Ozgijan, Žarko Mirković...

Teaching career

Trbojević was Professor of Piano at the University of Arts in Belgrade Faculty of Music, University of Novi Sad Academy of Arts and University of Titograd Academy of Music. His former students include prominent pianists of today: Rita Kinka, Istra Pečvari, Lidija Matić, Nada Kolundžija, Maja Rajković...

Compositions

He has been the author of numerous compositions: Piano Concerto, Piano Sonata, Sonata for Violin and Piano, Suite for Clarinet and Piano, Sonata Rustica for Piano, Two Dances for Piano, choir scores, songs for a voice with piano accompaniment (Mother, The Dubrovnik Epitaph, In the Storm, cycle The Man's Songs)...

Publications

Trbojević wrote five books about music.

Affiliations

He was the first president of the European Piano Teachers Association (EPTA) and is now honorary president of the EPTA Serbia.
He was also a member and past president of the Association of Musical Artists of Serbia.
He died in Belgrade, Serbia.
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Khairy Shalaby, Egyptian writer, died he was 73.

Khairy Shalaby died he was 73.

 (January 31, 1938 – 9 September 2011)

 was an Egyptian novelist and writer. He wrote some 70 books, including twenty novels, critical studies, historical tales, plays and short story collections.^[3][1] Khairy is widely regarded as having written novels “of the Egyptian street.”^[2]
Adam Talib, who translated The Hashish Waiter, said of Shalaby’s prose:

"The most enjoyable—and the most difficult—thing about Khairy’s prose is the way he mixes language levels (registers) within a single sentence or paragraph. Khairy doesn’t go in for the prophetic or philosophical or pompous-sounding stuff…and he really seems to be having a lot of fun when he writes. I guess what I’m trying to say is that Khairy doesn’t spend a lot of time looking up from the story. He doesn’t look over his shoulder like some writers and he doesn’t spend too much energy worrying about what ‘the critics’ will say. I haven’t asked him but I’m fairly certain he’s never spent a second thinking about how this might sound when it’s translated. …. In many ways, Arabic novels are still having a conversation with the culture at large—they’re very engaged—and it’s reflected in this style of novel. Khairy Shalaby is an important artist and also a very good critic, but he doesn’t go in for that sort of thing. Like Yusuf al-Qa’eed, Khairy tries to show that novels don’t have to be explicitly intellectual, or about intellectuals, to handle important political and social questions in a very sophisticated way."^[2]

Honors

Shalaby's The Lodging House won the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature in 2003.^[1] The Lodging House was listed by the Arab Writers Union as one of the “top 105” books of the last century. Istasia was longlisted for the 2010 International Prize for Arabic Fiction.

Works

English translated

• The Hashish Waiter
• The Lodging House
• The Time-Travels of the Man Who Sold Pickles and Sweets

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Laurie Hughes, English football player (Liverpool), died he was 87.

Lawrence (Laurie) Hughes was an England former international football player who played for Liverpool  died he was 87..

(2 March 1924 – 9 September 2011) 

 Life and playing career

Born in Waterloo, Liverpool, Lancashire, England, Hughes was a strong, uncompromising Centre Half, who could also play wing half; he had the knack of being able to read the game-stopping moves before they caused too many problems.
Hughes signed for Liverpool in 1943 from Tranmere where he was a trainee; however, it wasn't until 5 January 1946 that he made his debut in a 2–0 FA Cup 3rd round 1st leg victory at Sealand Road, Chester, his one and only goal didn't come until 8 December 1951 in a league game at Anfield against Preston, Hughes' 88th-minute strike saving a point in the 2–2 draw.
During the first post-war season of 1946–47 Hughes made 30 appearances from 42 games helping the Reds win the First Division Championship, Liverpool's first title in 24 years.
1950 proved to be a rollercoaster of a season for Hughes, on a high due to reaching the FA Cup final at Wembley only to lose to Arsenal 2–0. He then was selected to represent England at the World Cup in Brazil ^[1] getting all of his 3 caps in the process and becoming Liverpool's first representative at the worlds premier football tournament, unfortunately, one of the appearances was the embarrassing 1–0 defeat to the USA. His debut came on 25 June 1950 in Rio De Janeiro, Chile were the opponents who were beaten 2-0 with the goals coming from Stan Mortensen and Wilf Mannion.
Hughes and Liverpool's fortunes changed during the fifties when the Reds fell from the top tier, they managed to fend off relegation during the 1952–53 season but couldn't prevent the drop a season later.
Hughes stayed on at Liverpool and had a decent season in the 1956/57 missing just one match. Hughes played his last game against Charlton on 28 September 1957 aged 33, however, Hughes remained loyal to the club he loved and didn't retire for another 3 years, finally doing so in May 1960.
Hughes died at home on 9 September 2011 aged 87.^[2]

Career details

• Liverpool F.C. (1943–1960) - 326 appearances, 1 goal; Football league championship (level 1) winners medal (1947); FA Cup runners up medal (1950)

• England (1950) - 3 caps - All at the World Cup of 1950

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Vo Chi Cong, Vietnamese politician, President (1987–1992), died he was 99.

Võ Chí Công  was a Vietnamese Communist politician, and the President of Vietnam between 1987 and 1992 died he was 99..

(7 August 1912 – 8 September 2011)

Early life and political activities

Võ Chí Công was born as Võ Toàn in Quảng Nam, French Indochina in 1912. He first became politically active in 1930, when he joined with Phan Bội Châu and Phan Chu Trinh, two early Vietnamese nationalists who opposed the French colonial regime. He joined the Communist Party of Indochina in 1935,^[2] and fought with the Vietnamese resistance against the Vichy French during World War II. He was arrested for his resistance activities in 1942.^{[citation needed]}

Vietcong founding member

After the war, Công faded into obscurity for a time, before becoming a founding member and Deputy Chairman of the National Front for the Liberation of South Vietnam (Vietcong) in 1961. He later became Deputy Secretary of the Central Office for South Vietnam (COSVN), and was a key figure in the South Vietnamese communist party during the Vietnam War. After the reunification of Vietnam in 1976, Công was awarded a seat on the national Politburo.^{[citation needed]}

Cabinet career and presidency

As a Politburo member, Công served in various cabinet posts, including Minister of Fisheries (1976-77), Minister of Agriculture (1977-78), and Deputy Prime Minister (1976-82), before becoming the Chairman of the Council of State of Vietnam (the contemporary equivalent of the President of Vietnam) in 1987. After his presidential term ended in 1992, Công became an advisor to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Vietnam, until this advisory position was abolished in 1997.

Death

Võ Chí Công died in Hồ Chí Minh City on 8 September 2011, aged 99. The Vietnamese government granted him a televised state funeral in recognition of his long political career.^[3]


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Sir Hilary Synnott,British diplomat, died he was 66.

Sir Hilary Nicholas Hugh Synnott was a British diplomat who was Regional Coordinator of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) in Southern Iraq from 2003 to 2004, before retiring in 2005 died he was 66.. He published a book about his time there called 'Bad Days In Basra'.

(20 March 1945 – 8 September 2011) 

Education

Hilary Sinnott attended Peterhouse, Cambridge University where he was awarded an MA. From 1962 to 1973, he was a Royal Navy officer serving as a submariner.

Diplomatic career

In 1973, Synnott joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as Second Secretary. He was posted as First Secretary to UKDEL OECD Paris in 1975 and was transferred to Bonn in 1978. He returned to the FCO in 1981. In November 1985, Synnott was appointed Counsellor, Consul-General and Head of Chancery in Amman.^[4] He was Deputy High Commissioner to India from 1993 to 1996. At the FCO, he served as Director for South and South East Asian Affairs from 1996 until 1998. He was appointed British High Commissioner to Pakistan from 2000 until 2003. In his final posting to Iraq, Sir Hilary replaced the Danish Ambassador Ole Wøhlers Olsen who had complained at the lack of support given to his reconstruction efforts.^[5]

Post retirement

On 9 December 2009, Synnott gave evidence to The Iraq Inquiry in which he was critical of the Coalition Provisional Authority.^[6]

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