Doreen Ruth Richardson

04/01/1926 — 02/01/1986
A brief biography

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Richard Guinness
Charles Richardson 1787 — 1862
William Pengilley Richardson 1823 — 1895
William Charles Richardson 1851 — 1924
Arthur Maurice Richardson 1888 — 1980
Doreen Ruth Richardson 1926 — 1986
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Thurstan Berkeley Brewin 1921 — 2001  

Doreen Ruth Richardson


Daughter of Arthur Maurice Richardson and Gertrude Louisa Owen. .

Born in 1926, the sixteenth year of the reign of King George V, and died aged fifty-nine in the thirty-fourth year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth II

Bio


Doreen Ruth Richardson was born on 4 October 1926 in Reigate, Surrey, her father, Arthur, was 38, and her mother, Gertrude, was 35. She married Thurstan Berkeley Brewin on 5 October 1946.


During the war she joined the ATS (Women's Army) and acted as chauffeur to the General Office Commanding (South-West of England).
In 1946 she married a young medical student, Thurstan Brewin. She was a traditional housewife for much of her life, raising 5 children, following her husband as his career moved them from South-East England, to Canada and then to Scotland. In later life she took up painting, and was part-way through an undergraduate degree course at the Glasgow School of Art when she died suddenly of leukaemia, two days before her 60th birthday.



She died on 2 January 1986 at the age of 59.

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