MARLAR, Robin Geoffrey 1931-2022
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Richard R
Oct 1, 2022, 5:35:31 AM10/1/22
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He m 1980 as his 2nd w (her 2nd h) Hon Gillian Doreen TAYLOR 1934-2019 d of the LP Baron TAYLOR OF HADFIELD 1905-95 and his 1st w Evelyn 1908-2005 d of John William WOODROW 1879-1930 and as her 1st h (her 2nd was Albert Wakefield) Ethel TAYLOR 1884-1948.
Obit in the Times of 1 Oct 2022:
E X T R A C T
Robin Marlar obituary
Veteran Sunday Times cricket correspondent and outspoken MCC president
...Beneath the bombast, though, there was a kindly nature and an able mind. Marlar captained Cambridge University and afterwards taught briefly at Eton. He could afford to play cricket as an amateur through being given employment by the Duke of Norfolk as the librarian at Arundel Castle from 1954 to 1959. He also contested as a Conservative a by-election in the Labour stronghold of Bolsover in 1959...
...Marlar also contested Leicester North East in 1962 and Newbury on behalf of the Referendum Party in 1993. He founded his own firm of headhunters, Marlar Group of Consultancies, which he ran successfully in conjunction with freelance journalism...
...He married, firstly, Wendy Dumeresque, with whom he had two sons, Algy and James, and four daughters, Sarah, AJ, Kate and Tammy. All the children survive him. In 1980 he married Gill Taylor, who died in 2019...
Robin Marlar, cricketer and Sunday Times cricket correspondent, was born on January 2, 1931. He died, following a fall, on September 30, 2022, aged 91
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robin-marlar-obituary-n9lf9zfb0
Obit in the Times of 1 Oct 2022:
E X T R A C T
Robin Marlar obituary
Veteran Sunday Times cricket correspondent and outspoken MCC president
...Beneath the bombast, though, there was a kindly nature and an able mind. Marlar captained Cambridge University and afterwards taught briefly at Eton. He could afford to play cricket as an amateur through being given employment by the Duke of Norfolk as the librarian at Arundel Castle from 1954 to 1959. He also contested as a Conservative a by-election in the Labour stronghold of Bolsover in 1959...
...Marlar also contested Leicester North East in 1962 and Newbury on behalf of the Referendum Party in 1993. He founded his own firm of headhunters, Marlar Group of Consultancies, which he ran successfully in conjunction with freelance journalism...
...He married, firstly, Wendy Dumeresque, with whom he had two sons, Algy and James, and four daughters, Sarah, AJ, Kate and Tammy. All the children survive him. In 1980 he married Gill Taylor, who died in 2019...
Robin Marlar, cricketer and Sunday Times cricket correspondent, was born on January 2, 1931. He died, following a fall, on September 30, 2022, aged 91
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robin-marlar-obituary-n9lf9zfb0
Richard R
Oct 13, 2022, 5:17:58 AM10/13/22
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From the Telegraph & Times of 13 Oct 2022: MARLAR Robin Geoffrey died on 30th September aged 91 after a short illness. Dearly loved by all his family and greatly missed. Former Captain and Chairman of Sussex CCC, Sunday Times cricket correspondent, management consultant, author and President of MCC. Donations to Sussex Cricket Museum (SCMET). Funeral enquiries to Alan Greenwood & Sons...
Richard R
Feb 23, 2023, 5:17:57 AM2/23/23
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From the Telegraph of 23 Feb 2023: MARLAR Robin Memorial Service Monday 17th April at 10.45 a.m. St John's Wood Church, Lord's Roundabout…[London]
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