DUNCAN-JONES, Katherine Dorothea 1941-2022
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Richard R
Oct 27, 2022, 4:45:20 AM10/27/22
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She was d of Rev Arthur Stuart DUNCAN-JONES 1908-67 and Elsie Elizabeth 1908-2003 d of Henry PHARE 1879-1966 by his 22 Jan 1906 m reg Q1 Cornwall (both shoen as Post Office Clerks) to Hilda Annie BULL 1882-1960. She m 1971 (div 1990) as his 1st w A(ndrew) N(orman) b 1950 (the writer) s of Lt-Col Norman WILSON 1902-85 by his 1939 m reg Q3 Cheshire to Jean Dorothy CROWDER 1912-2003, and had two daus as above. The elder dau, Beatrice Dorothy b 1974 reg Q2 Oxford, m Prof The 4th Viscount RUNCIMAN b 1967 (has yet to establish his claim) and had two sons and a dau.
Obit from the Times of 27 Oct 2022
E X T R A C T
Katherine Duncan-Jones obituary
Shakespeare scholar who was alive to the absurdity of academic life and rebranded the Bard a ‘stingy hoarder’ and a drunken glutton
...her marriage to the author and columnist AN Wilson. The pair were introduced by Iris Murdoch and John Bayley in the latter don’s rooms, and married in 1971 when Wilson was a 20-year-old undergraduate at New College and she a distinguished Renaissance scholar ten years his senior. They were together for more than 17 years...
...Wilson recalled, especially after Duncan-Jones developed dementia in her 70s. She is survived by Emily, a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Bee Wilson, a food writer.
Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones was born in Birmingham in 1941, the youngest of two in a family of academics. Her mother Elsie (née Phare) was an English professor at Birmingham University, a playwright, a literary critic and an expert on the 17th century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. Her father, Austin, was a professor of philosophy at Birmingham University who specialised in meta-ethics and was president of the Aristotelian Society. He died of alcoholism when she was 26. Her older brother, Richard, went on to become a Cambridge history don. She also had a younger brother who died in infancy, and she later said that she felt her marriage to a younger man stemmed from the loss, which she grieved deeply...
...In the last five years Duncan-Jones’s mind gradually deteriorated from dementia and she had to abandon a book she had started on Shakespeare’s fools. Eventually she moved to a care home in Cambridge where her daughter, Bee, read Shakespeare’s sonnets to her. It was tragic that towards the end she forgot who had written them, but her eyes would glass over at the beauty of the words, as if experiencing them for the first time.
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare scholar, was born on May 13, 1941. She died of complications from dementia on October 16, 2022, aged 81
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/katherine-duncan-jones-obituary-pb9sghks6
Obit from the Times of 27 Oct 2022
E X T R A C T
Katherine Duncan-Jones obituary
Shakespeare scholar who was alive to the absurdity of academic life and rebranded the Bard a ‘stingy hoarder’ and a drunken glutton
...her marriage to the author and columnist AN Wilson. The pair were introduced by Iris Murdoch and John Bayley in the latter don’s rooms, and married in 1971 when Wilson was a 20-year-old undergraduate at New College and she a distinguished Renaissance scholar ten years his senior. They were together for more than 17 years...
...Wilson recalled, especially after Duncan-Jones developed dementia in her 70s. She is survived by Emily, a professor of classical studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and Bee Wilson, a food writer.
Katherine Dorothea Duncan-Jones was born in Birmingham in 1941, the youngest of two in a family of academics. Her mother Elsie (née Phare) was an English professor at Birmingham University, a playwright, a literary critic and an expert on the 17th century metaphysical poet Andrew Marvell. Her father, Austin, was a professor of philosophy at Birmingham University who specialised in meta-ethics and was president of the Aristotelian Society. He died of alcoholism when she was 26. Her older brother, Richard, went on to become a Cambridge history don. She also had a younger brother who died in infancy, and she later said that she felt her marriage to a younger man stemmed from the loss, which she grieved deeply...
...In the last five years Duncan-Jones’s mind gradually deteriorated from dementia and she had to abandon a book she had started on Shakespeare’s fools. Eventually she moved to a care home in Cambridge where her daughter, Bee, read Shakespeare’s sonnets to her. It was tragic that towards the end she forgot who had written them, but her eyes would glass over at the beauty of the words, as if experiencing them for the first time.
Katherine Duncan-Jones, Shakespeare scholar, was born on May 13, 1941. She died of complications from dementia on October 16, 2022, aged 81
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/katherine-duncan-jones-obituary-pb9sghks6
Richard R
Oct 27, 2022, 5:06:20 AM10/27/22
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CORRECTION: Bee Runciman is the younger dau. Her elder sister Emily Rose C. b 1971 reg Q4 Oxford
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