RAW, Charles Rupert 1940-2022
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Richard R
Dec 3, 2022, 7:58:43 AM12/3/22
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From the Times of 3 Dec 2022: RAW Charles Rupert on 28th November 2022. Financial investigative journalist and author. Father of Alex, Tom and James. Notice of funeral will be given here.
He was s of George Rupert RAW CMG 1912-88 and Joan Persica 1912-90 d of Sir Charles Alban YOUNG KCMG MVO 9th Bt 1865-1944 and Frances Clara 1885-1967 d of Sir Francis Edmund Hugh ELLIOTT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOUND 1851-1940 (gs of 2nd Earl of MINTO 1782-1859) and Henrietta Augusta Mary d 1938 d of Rt Hon Sir Francis Clare FORD GCB GCMG 1828-99 (s of Harriet CAPELL c1806-1837 illegt d of 5th Earl of ESSEX 1757-1839). He m 1965 (div _) as her 1st h (her 2nd was John Latimer Smith) Nicola Henrietta St John b 1946 d of Hans Henry Winterstein GILLESPIE 1910-94 and as her 1st h (her 2nd was (as his 3rd & last w) Maj Hon Thomas H Hazlerigg 2nd son of 1st Baron Hazlerigg) Anne Frances Roden 1920-2007 d of Capt Roden Henry Victor BUXTON 1890-1990 (s of Sir Thomas Fowell Victor BUXTON 4th Bt 1865-1919 gs of 1st Earl of GAINSBOROUGH 1781-1866 etc) and Dorothy Alina ST JOHN 1889-1956.
He was s of George Rupert RAW CMG 1912-88 and Joan Persica 1912-90 d of Sir Charles Alban YOUNG KCMG MVO 9th Bt 1865-1944 and Frances Clara 1885-1967 d of Sir Francis Edmund Hugh ELLIOTT-MURRAY-KYNYNMOUND 1851-1940 (gs of 2nd Earl of MINTO 1782-1859) and Henrietta Augusta Mary d 1938 d of Rt Hon Sir Francis Clare FORD GCB GCMG 1828-99 (s of Harriet CAPELL c1806-1837 illegt d of 5th Earl of ESSEX 1757-1839). He m 1965 (div _) as her 1st h (her 2nd was John Latimer Smith) Nicola Henrietta St John b 1946 d of Hans Henry Winterstein GILLESPIE 1910-94 and as her 1st h (her 2nd was (as his 3rd & last w) Maj Hon Thomas H Hazlerigg 2nd son of 1st Baron Hazlerigg) Anne Frances Roden 1920-2007 d of Capt Roden Henry Victor BUXTON 1890-1990 (s of Sir Thomas Fowell Victor BUXTON 4th Bt 1865-1919 gs of 1st Earl of GAINSBOROUGH 1781-1866 etc) and Dorothy Alina ST JOHN 1889-1956.
Richard R
Dec 19, 2022, 4:57:20 AM12/19/22
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Obit in the Times of 19 Dec 2022 (includes details of other marriages and issue):
Charles Raw obituary
Journalist on The Sunday Times Insight team who forensically uncovered corruption at the Vatican Bank and the seamier side of the City
...Raw’s good looks, charm and elegant manner made him immensely attractive to women, and he was married four times. But his personal life was complicated by a tendency towards alcohol, and his calm exterior concealed a deep anger at the way unscrupulous financiers could manipulate the market, and fraudsters swindle the innocent...
...Charles Raw was born in 1940. His father was George Rupert Raw CMG, a founder director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and sterling expert at the Bank of England, who during the war had been dropped behind the lines in Yugoslavia to link up with Draza Mihailovic and his Chetnik warriors — later abandoned by Churchill. His mother was Joan Persica Young, daughter of the British diplomat Sir Charles Alban Young.
...Raw, his older sister Vicky and younger sister Susie, were brought up in Germany, Paris and Oxfordshire, in the steps of their father’s career, and he was sent to boarding school at Vinehall in East Sussex, before proceeding to Eton...
...His first marriage was in 1965 to Nicola Henrietta St John Gillespie (Nixie), daughter of Dr Hans Henry Winterstein Gillespie. The marriage was brief, and in 1974 he married Gilia Leather, with whom he had two sons, Alexander, a freelance TV producer, and Thomas, who farms in Herefordshire. His third (common law) wife was also a financial journalist, Stephanie Cooke, whom he met in 1991 when she offered him a piece for The European about manipulation in the gold markets. She later wrote a seminal history of the intertwined development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. They had one son, James, who lives with her in Washington. The couple separated, and in 2002 he married Helga Wall-Row, née Rönn, who had been born in Hamburg in 1926, and with whom he shared a passion for jazz; she had been among the teenagers incarcerated in the Uckermark concentration camp, because her enthusiasm for jazz offended Nazi sensibilities. She survived to take a small part in the movie The Third Man. Raw was to become her carer after she became bed-ridden.
A complex and driven man, Raw was not easy to live with. But his children also remember another side — his fondness of skiing and tennis, and his ability to conjure up gripping stories about his many investigations. As a boy he had adored making models, of aircraft and cars, and he retained this enthusiasm, helping his children do the same. As with his financial reporting, each model was made with an unerring eye for detail.
Chares Raw, journalist, was born on August 4, 1940. He died of heart failure on November 28, 2022, aged 82
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charles-raw-obituary-svpvh6rz2
Journalist on The Sunday Times Insight team who forensically uncovered corruption at the Vatican Bank and the seamier side of the City
...Raw’s good looks, charm and elegant manner made him immensely attractive to women, and he was married four times. But his personal life was complicated by a tendency towards alcohol, and his calm exterior concealed a deep anger at the way unscrupulous financiers could manipulate the market, and fraudsters swindle the innocent...
...Charles Raw was born in 1940. His father was George Rupert Raw CMG, a founder director of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and sterling expert at the Bank of England, who during the war had been dropped behind the lines in Yugoslavia to link up with Draza Mihailovic and his Chetnik warriors — later abandoned by Churchill. His mother was Joan Persica Young, daughter of the British diplomat Sir Charles Alban Young.
...Raw, his older sister Vicky and younger sister Susie, were brought up in Germany, Paris and Oxfordshire, in the steps of their father’s career, and he was sent to boarding school at Vinehall in East Sussex, before proceeding to Eton...
...His first marriage was in 1965 to Nicola Henrietta St John Gillespie (Nixie), daughter of Dr Hans Henry Winterstein Gillespie. The marriage was brief, and in 1974 he married Gilia Leather, with whom he had two sons, Alexander, a freelance TV producer, and Thomas, who farms in Herefordshire. His third (common law) wife was also a financial journalist, Stephanie Cooke, whom he met in 1991 when she offered him a piece for The European about manipulation in the gold markets. She later wrote a seminal history of the intertwined development of nuclear weapons and nuclear power. They had one son, James, who lives with her in Washington. The couple separated, and in 2002 he married Helga Wall-Row, née Rönn, who had been born in Hamburg in 1926, and with whom he shared a passion for jazz; she had been among the teenagers incarcerated in the Uckermark concentration camp, because her enthusiasm for jazz offended Nazi sensibilities. She survived to take a small part in the movie The Third Man. Raw was to become her carer after she became bed-ridden.
A complex and driven man, Raw was not easy to live with. But his children also remember another side — his fondness of skiing and tennis, and his ability to conjure up gripping stories about his many investigations. As a boy he had adored making models, of aircraft and cars, and he retained this enthusiasm, helping his children do the same. As with his financial reporting, each model was made with an unerring eye for detail.
Chares Raw, journalist, was born on August 4, 1940. He died of heart failure on November 28, 2022, aged 82
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charles-raw-obituary-svpvh6rz2
Richard R
Dec 20, 2022, 4:11:35 AM12/20/22
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Funeral notice from the Times of 20 Dec 2022: RAW Charles Rupert on 28th November 2022, financial investigative journalist and author. Golders Green Crematorium (West Chapel), 11am, Friday 6th January 2023, and drinks afterwards.
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