| Date
of Birth |
|
15
June 1922 |
| Place: |
|
Shortlands, Bromley,
Kent
Lived in and around Oxford since 1930, Woodeaton
from 1968 |
| Parents: |
|
Douglas
Veale
–
later Sir Douglas Veale (1954)
– Registrar
of Oxford University 1930-58
Evelyn Annie Veale (nee Henderson) |
| Siblings: |
|
Margaret, Janet |
| Schools: |
|
Dragon
School, Oxford, 1930-36
Repton, 1936-40 |
| University: |
|
Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, 1940-42 - Hons. Degree in History; M.A.
1947 |
| War
Service: |
|
1942-47
– Education Corps. |
| Marriage: |
|
Diana Yeldham Taylor,
1944-72- painter and art teacher |
| Children: |
|
Jane
(1947 – 1951)
Sarah (1953)
Jacob (1955) |
| Grandchildren: |
|
Megan (1989)
Hannah (1991)
Eleanor (1992)
Esther (1994) |
| Music
training: |
|
At
12 given a clarinet and his love of music blossomed.
Taught himself to play it. Realised at Oxford that
music was his career. Had lessons with Egon Wellesz,
Sir Hugh Allen and Sir Thomas Armstrong , was encouraged
by William Walton and continued his musical education
with the American composers Roy Harris and Roger
Sessions. |
| Career: |
|
Composer late 1930s -
American Commonwealth Fellowship 1949-51
Junior Fellowship, Oxford, 1951-53
Film critic and film correspondent for Oxford Mail,
1965-80
Copy editor, OUP, 1968-87 |
| Activities: |
|
Campaign
-
- against the lights on the BBC radio mast at Beckley
- fly tipping at the Woodeaton Quarry
- further applications to deepen it
- for restrictions when quarry used to supply
hard core
- any environmental pollution around Woodeaton
Wrote many ‘letters to the editor’ –
especially to The Guardian, The Observer and Oxford
Mail |
| Interests: |
|
Astronomy
Ornithology – could imitate the cuckoo |
| Contempories
and people he knew/met |
|
Kingsley
Amis, Lindsay Anderson, Kenneth Tynan, Constant
Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, Elizabeth Lutyens, Louis
MacNeice, William Walton, Dylan Thomas |
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