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RIP Clarissa: From the Telegraph obituary of Clarissa Dickson Wright She was by then she was a regular pipe smoker, consuming two ounces of Gold Block a week. The first woman to practise at the Admiralty Bar, she received excellent notices from, among others, Lord Denning, and was elected to the Bar Council as a representative of young barristers. Things started to go awry when her father died in 1976. He left his entire £2 million fortune to his brother saying in a rider to his will “I leave no money to Clarissa, who was an afterthought and has twice caused me grievous bodily harm, and of whom I go in fear of my life.” telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/tv-radio-obituaries/10702886/Clarissa-Dickson-Wright-obituary.html
Posted on: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 15:31:56 +0000

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