WALLER, David Ross (1962-2020)

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He died on 21 September 2020 - see Telegraph obit https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2020/10/22/david-waller-city-pr-expert-wrote-three-acclaimed-biographies/

He m 1992 (div 2018) Jane Olive Comrie (b 1965) dau of Sir John Reader Welch, 2nd and present Baronet (UK 1957) (b 1933) and (m 1962) Margaret Kerry dau of Kenneth DOUGLASS of Killara NSW, Aus

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David Waller, City PR expert who wrote three acclaimed biographies of 19th-century figures– obituary

His subjects included the society hostess Gertrude Tennant and the strongman Eugene Sandow, who caused ‘semi-delirium’ in female audiences

David Waller, who has died aged 57, was a financial journalist and corporate communications specialist who found time to write a trio of well-praised historical biographies. 

 David Ross Waller was born at Bowdon in Cheshire on November 26 1962, the younger son of John Waller, a merchant navy officer, and his wife Jennifer née Hyland, a physiotherapist. 

He married Jane Welch in 1992. The marriage was dissolved in 2018 and he is survived by their two sons and a daughter.

David Waller, born November 26 1962, died September 21 2020