Rachel Gurney
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Rachel Gurney was an English
actress. She began her career in the theatre
towards the end of World War II
and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s. She remained active mostly in television and theatre work through the early 1990s. She was best known for playing Lady Marjorie Bellamy
in the award winning ITV
period drama
Upstairs, Downstairs
.
and her mother, Irene Scharrer, was a concert pianist. Due to her father's occupation, Gurney grew up in a large house with 42 boys that was often host to visiting artists and musicians. As a teenager she attended the Challoner School in London
.
In 1938, Gurney entered the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
to study acting. World War II
postponed her acting career, and she did not make her stage debut until 1945 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre; working under director Barry Jackson. At the close of the war she quickly became a regular presence on the West End
, making her debut in 1946 as Lynne Hartley in Warren Chetham-Strode
's The Guinea Pig
at the Criterion Theatre
. That same year she married novelist Denys Rhodes
but the marriage ended in 1950 in divorce. They had one daughter together, actress Sharon Gurney (daughter in-law of Michael Gough
). Her other stage credits during this time include Lady Katherine in The Sleeping Clergyman
at the Criterion Theatre in 1947, the fiancée in Peter Watling's Rain on the Just
at the Old Vic
in 1948, and Thea in Black Chiffon
at the Westminster Theatre
in 1949.
(1950), The Doctor's Dilemma (1951), and Eden End
(1951) among others. In 1952 she portrayed the roles of Mabel in First Person Singular
and Mrs. Pless in The Trap at the Duke of York's Theatre
. She also appeared as Alice in The Voysey Inheritance
at the Arts Theatre
and as Mrs. George Lamb in Caro William
at the Embassy Theatre
. The following year she played Valerie Carrington in the groundbreaking play Carrington VC at the Westminster Theatre
. She remained busy over the next several years appearing as Avice Brunton in The Bombshell (1954), Portia in The Merchant of Venice
(1955), and Olivia in The Chalk Garden
(1956). In 1959 she replaced Celia Johnson
as Hilary in The Grass is Greener
at the St. Martin's Theatre.
Gurney also began to appear in both films and television in the 1950s. Her first film role was in Tom Brown's Schooldays
in 1951. This was followed by the films The Blakes Slept Here
(1953), Room in the House
(1955), Port Afrique
(1956), and A Touch of Larceny
(1959). Her television credits at this time included Night River (1955), The Scarlet Pimpernel
(1956), Colonel March of Scotland Yard
(1956), Our Mutual Friend
(1958), and The Moonstone
(1959).
as Hermione in the 1965 production of A Winter's Tale and as Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband
at the Piccadilly Theatre
in 1966 . She also starred in the 1969 touring production of Shaw's On the Rocks opposite David Tomlinson
, Robert Flemyng
, and Jack Hulbert
.
In 1966 she appeared in the film Funeral in Berlin
. Her television credits include Dixon of Dock Green
(1961), Katy (1962), The Saint
(1963), Compact (1963), ITV Play of the Week (1964), The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1965), The Wednesday Thriller (1965), Mystery and Imagination
(1966), The Rat Catchers
(1966), Armchair Thriller
(1967), The Portrait of a Lady
(1968), ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), The Way We Live Now
(1969), Upstairs, Downstairs
(1971–1973), Dangerous Corner
(1974), and Fall of Eagles
(1974).
Gurney remained active in theatre during the 1970s. She appeared as Mrs Darling in Peter Pan
at the Palladium
in 1975. In 1977 Gurney made her American stage debut Off-Broadway
as Mrs. Clandon in George Bernard Shaw
's You Never Can Tell at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City
.
She also appeared in the television shows Lost Empires
(1986), Richard III
(1989), and Little Sir Nicholas (1990).
She died in Norfolk
, England
in 2001 from Alzheimer's disease
.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
actress. She began her career in the theatre
Theatre
Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...
towards the end of World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
and then expanded into television and film in the 1950s. She remained active mostly in television and theatre work through the early 1990s. She was best known for playing Lady Marjorie Bellamy
Lady Marjorie Bellamy
The Lady Marjorie Helen Sybil Bellamy was a fictional character in the ITV drama Upstairs, Downstairs...
in the award winning ITV
ITV
ITV is the major commercial public service TV network in the United Kingdom. Launched in 1955 under the auspices of the Independent Television Authority to provide competition to the BBC, it is also the oldest commercial network in the UK...
period drama
Period piece
-Setting:In the performing arts, a period piece is a work set in a particular era. This informal term covers all countries, all periods and all genres...
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...
.
Early life and education
Rachel Gurney was born in Buckinghamshire, England in 1920. Her father, Samuel Gurney Lubbock, was a housemaster at EtonEton College
Eton College, often referred to simply as Eton, is a British independent school for boys aged 13 to 18. It was founded in 1440 by King Henry VI as "The King's College of Our Lady of Eton besides Wyndsor"....
and her mother, Irene Scharrer, was a concert pianist. Due to her father's occupation, Gurney grew up in a large house with 42 boys that was often host to visiting artists and musicians. As a teenager she attended the Challoner School in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
.
In 1938, Gurney entered the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art
The Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, formerly the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, was a drama school, and originally a singing school, in London. It was one of the leading drama schools in Britain, and offered comprehensive training for those intending to pursue a...
to study acting. World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
postponed her acting career, and she did not make her stage debut until 1945 with the Birmingham Repertory Theatre; working under director Barry Jackson. At the close of the war she quickly became a regular presence on the West End
West End theatre
West End theatre is a popular term for mainstream professional theatre staged in the large theatres of London's 'Theatreland', the West End. Along with New York's Broadway theatre, West End theatre is usually considered to represent the highest level of commercial theatre in the English speaking...
, making her debut in 1946 as Lynne Hartley in Warren Chetham-Strode
Warren Chetham-Strode
Reginald Warren Chetham-Strode MC, was an English author and playwright. He wrote several plays including The Guinea Pig which was turned into a movie in 1948...
's The Guinea Pig
The Guinea Pig (Chetham-Strode)
The Guinea Pig is a 3 Act play by Warren Chetham-Strode. The work premiered on London's West End at the Criterion Theatre in 1946 and starred Rachel Gurney as Lynne Hartley. An immense success, the play was soon adapted into a 1948 film starring Richard Attenborough and Sheila Sim....
at the Criterion Theatre
Criterion Theatre
The Criterion Theatre is a West End theatre situated on Piccadilly Circus in the City of Westminster, and is a Grade II* listed building. It has an official capacity of 588.-Building the theatre:...
. That same year she married novelist Denys Rhodes
Denys Rhodes
Denys Gravenor Rhodes was an English writer who is most famous for his novel The Syndicate which was adapted into a 1968 film. He was married twice, once to actress Rachel Gurney and once to The Honorable Margaret Rhodes .-Sources:**...
but the marriage ended in 1950 in divorce. They had one daughter together, actress Sharon Gurney (daughter in-law of Michael Gough
Michael Gough
Michael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise,...
). Her other stage credits during this time include Lady Katherine in The Sleeping Clergyman
The Sleeping Clergyman
The Sleeping Clergyman is a 1935 play in Two Acts by James Bridie. The play was later adapted for radio and broadcast on the BBC's Saturday Night Theatre on January 1, 1949.-Sources:*...
at the Criterion Theatre in 1947, the fiancée in Peter Watling's Rain on the Just
Rain On The Just
Rain On The Just is a play by Peter Watling which premiered in 1948 at the Theatre Royal, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.The cast included Marie Ney, Eileen Peel, Michael Denison, Geoffrey Keen, Dulcie Gray and Edgar Norfolk. The show made its London debut later that year at the Old Vic with much of the same...
at the Old Vic
Old Vic
The Old Vic is a theatre located just south-east of Waterloo Station in London on the corner of The Cut and Waterloo Road. Established in 1818 as the Royal Coburg Theatre, it was taken over by Emma Cons in 1880 when it was known formally as the Royal Victoria Hall. In 1898, a niece of Cons, Lilian...
in 1948, and Thea in Black Chiffon
Black Chiffon
Black Chiffon is a play in Two Acts by Lesley Storm. Starring Flora Robson, the play premiered at the Westminster Theatre in London's West End on 3 May 1949, running for over 400 performances. The play debuted on Broadway on 27 September 1950 and ran until 13 January 1951, totalling 109 performances...
at the Westminster Theatre
Westminster Theatre
The Westminster Theatre was a London theatre, on Palace Street in Westminster. It was originally built as the Charlotte Chapel in 1766, which was altered and given a new frontage for use as a cinema from 1924 onwards. It finally became a theatre in 1931 after radical alterations...
in 1949.
Early career
Gurney continued to appear regularly on the London stage during the 1950s. Several of her stage appearances were broadcast live on television on the BBC Sunday Night Theatre including The Tragedy of Pompey the GreatThe Tragedy of Pompey the Great
The Tragedy of Pompey the Great is a play by John Masefield, based on the career of the Roman general and politician Pompey the Great.The play premiered at the Aldwych Theatre on 4 December 1910 and was first published in 1914. The play was later filmed for television in 1950 for the BBC Sunday...
(1950), The Doctor's Dilemma (1951), and Eden End
Eden End
Eden End is a play by J. B. Priestley, first produced by Irene Hentschel at the Duchess Theatre, London, on 13 September 1934.-Plot introduction:...
(1951) among others. In 1952 she portrayed the roles of Mabel in First Person Singular
First Person Singular
First Person Singular is a play by Lewis Grant Wallace. The play tells the story of a convoluted affair between an eminent old novelist and a resentful younger writer. The work premiered at the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End of London on 4 February 1952. The cast included Irene Handl as...
and Mrs. Pless in The Trap at the Duke of York's Theatre
Duke of York's Theatre
The Duke of York's Theatre is a West End Theatre in St Martin's Lane, in the City of Westminster. It was built for Frank Wyatt and his wife, Violet Melnotte, who retained ownership of the theatre, until her death in 1935. It opened on 10 September 1892 as the Trafalgar Square Theatre, with Wedding...
. She also appeared as Alice in The Voysey Inheritance
The Voysey Inheritance
The Voysey Inheritance is a play written by the English dramatist Harley Granville-Barker. Originally written in 1905, it was revived at the National Theatre in 2006.It is currently in the public domain.- See also :*...
at the Arts Theatre
Arts Theatre
The Arts Theatre is a theatre in Great Newport Street, in Westminster, Central London. It now operates as the West End's smallest commercial receiving house.-History:...
and as Mrs. George Lamb in Caro William
Caro William
Caro William is a play by William Douglas-Home which premiered at the Embassy Theatre in 1952. The cast included Robert Shaw as Mr. George Lamb, Rachel Gurney as Mrs. George Lamb and Freda Gaye as Lady Melbourne. This play was the London stage acting debut of Robert Shaw....
at the Embassy Theatre
Embassy Theatre (London)
The Embassy Theatre is a theatre at 64, Eton Avenue, Swiss Cottage, London.- Early years :The Embassy Theatre was opened as a repertory company in September 1928 on the initiative of Sybil Arundale and Herbert Jay., when the premises of Hampstead Conservatoire of Music were adapted by architect...
. The following year she played Valerie Carrington in the groundbreaking play Carrington VC at the Westminster Theatre
Westminster Theatre
The Westminster Theatre was a London theatre, on Palace Street in Westminster. It was originally built as the Charlotte Chapel in 1766, which was altered and given a new frontage for use as a cinema from 1924 onwards. It finally became a theatre in 1931 after radical alterations...
. She remained busy over the next several years appearing as Avice Brunton in The Bombshell (1954), Portia in The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice
The Merchant of Venice is a tragic comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic...
(1955), and Olivia in The Chalk Garden
The Chalk Garden
The Chalk Garden is a play by Enid Bagnold that premiered on Broadway in 1955. The play tells the story of Mrs. St Maugham and her granddaughter Laurel, a disturbed child under Miss Madrigal's care. The setting of the play was inspired by Bagnold's own garden at North End House in Rottingdean, near...
(1956). In 1959 she replaced Celia Johnson
Celia Johnson
Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson DBE was an English actress.She began her stage acting career in 1928, and subsequently achieved success in West End and Broadway productions. She also appeared in several films, including the romantic drama Brief Encounter , for which she received a nomination for the...
as Hilary in The Grass is Greener
The Grass Is Greener
The Grass Is Greener is a 1960 comedy film featuring an ensemble cast consisting of screen veterans Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Robert Mitchum, and Jean Simmons,directed by Stanley Donen...
at the St. Martin's Theatre.
Gurney also began to appear in both films and television in the 1950s. Her first film role was in Tom Brown's Schooldays
Tom Brown's Schooldays (1951 film)
Tom Brown's Schooldays is a 1951 British drama film directed by Gordon Parry and starring John Howard Davies, Robert Newton and James Hayter. It is based on the novel of the same name by Thomas Hughes. The screenplay was written by Noel Langley....
in 1951. This was followed by the films The Blakes Slept Here
The Blakes Slept Here
The Blakes Slept Here is a 1953 film directed by Jacques B. Brunius. Brunius also wrote the screenplay along with Roy Plomley. The 36-minute film chronicles the life of a middle class British family from roughly 1850 to the end of World War II....
(1953), Room in the House
Room in the House
Room in the House is a 1955 film that was directed by Maurice Elvey. The film's screenplay, by Alfred Shaughnessy, is based on Eynon Evans's novel of the same name.-Cast and characters:...
(1955), Port Afrique
Port Afrique
Port Afrique is a 1956 British drama film based on the 1948 novel of the same name by Dr. Bernard Victor Dryer . The colour film was directed by Rudolph Maté and the adapted screenplay was written by John Cresswell...
(1956), and A Touch of Larceny
A Touch of Larceny
A Touch of Larceny is a 1959 British comedy film directed by Guy Hamilton and starring James Mason, George Sanders, Vera Miles, Harry Andrews, Rachel Gurney, and John Le Mesurier. It is based on a diverting and mildly cynical novel, The Megstone Plot , by Paul Winterton under the pseudonym Andrew...
(1959). Her television credits at this time included Night River (1955), The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scarlet Pimpernel (television series)
The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a British television series based on the adventure novel of the same name by Baroness Emmuska Orczy...
(1956), Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Colonel March of Scotland Yard
Colonel March of Scotland Yard is a 1950s British television series based on author John Dickson Carr's fictional detective Colonel March from his book The Department of Queer Complaints . Carr was a mystery author who specialised in locked-room whodunnits and other 'impossible' crimes: murder...
(1956), Our Mutual Friend
Our Mutual Friend (1958 TV serial)
Our Mutual Friend is a 1958 British television mini-series adapted from the Charles Dickens novel Our Mutual Friend. The series was made by the BBC and ran through 1959 for a total of twelve episodes.-Cast and characters:...
(1958), and The Moonstone
The Moonstone (1959 TV serial)
The Moonstone is a 1959 British television serial adapted from the Wilkie Collins novel The Moonstone. The series was made by the BBC and ran in 1959 over seven episodes.-Cast and characters:...
(1959).
Mid career
Gurney continued to remain active in theatre, television and film during the 1960s. On the stage she most notably starred opposite John GielgudJohn Gielgud
Sir Arthur John Gielgud, OM, CH was an English actor, director, and producer. A descendant of the renowned Terry acting family, he achieved early international acclaim for his youthful, emotionally expressive Hamlet which broke box office records on Broadway in 1937...
as Hermione in the 1965 production of A Winter's Tale and as Lady Chiltern in An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play by Oscar Wilde which revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour...
at the Piccadilly Theatre
Piccadilly Theatre
The Piccadilly Theatre is a West End theatre located at 16 Denman Street, behind Piccadilly Circus and adjacent to the Regent Palace Hotel, in the City of Westminster, England.-Early years:Built by Bertie Crewe and Edward A...
in 1966 . She also starred in the 1969 touring production of Shaw's On the Rocks opposite David Tomlinson
David Tomlinson
David Cecil MacAlister Tomlinson was an English film actor. He is primarily remembered for his roles as authority figure George Banks in Mary Poppins, fraudulent magician Professor Emelius Browne in Bedknobs and Broomsticks and as hapless antagonist Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug.-Early life:Born...
, Robert Flemyng
Robert Flemyng
Robert Flemyng OBE, MC was a British film and stage actor.Flemyng was born in Liverpool, the son of a doctor, and was educated at Haileybury. He began his career as a medical student before abandoning medicine to become an actor. Flemyng made his stage debut in the early 1930s, and worked steadily...
, and Jack Hulbert
Jack Hulbert
John Norman "Jack" Hulbert was a British actor, specialising primarily in comedy productions.-Biography:Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, he was the elder and more successful brother of Claude. He was educated at Cambridge and appeared in many shows and revues, mainly with the Cambridge Footlights. He...
.
In 1966 she appeared in the film Funeral in Berlin
Funeral in Berlin (film)
Funeral in Berlin is a 1966 British spy film based on the novel Funeral in Berlin by Len Deighton. It is the second of three 1960s films starring Michael Caine that followed the characters from the initial film, The Ipcress File ...
. Her television credits include Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green
Dixon of Dock Green was a popular BBC television series that ran from 1955 to 1976, and later a radio series. Despite being a drama series, it was initially produced by the BBC's light entertainment department.-Overview:...
(1961), Katy (1962), The Saint
The Saint (TV series)
The Saint was an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the UK on ITV between 1962 and 1969. It centred on the Leslie Charteris literary character, Simon Templar, a Robin Hood-like adventurer with a penchant for disguise. The character may be nicknamed The Saint because the...
(1963), Compact (1963), ITV Play of the Week (1964), The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1965), The Wednesday Thriller (1965), Mystery and Imagination
Mystery and Imagination
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology series of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 by ITV and featured plays based on the works of well-known authors such as Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Mary Shelley, M. R. James, and...
(1966), The Rat Catchers
The Rat Catchers
The Rat Catchers is a 1960s British television series about a top secret British Intelligence Unit who receive orders from the Prime Minister and without questions battles enemy spies, saboteurs, and other criminals in order to protect the security of Great Britain and the Western Alliance...
(1966), Armchair Thriller
Armchair Thriller
Armchair Thriller is a British television programme, broadcast on ITV in two series in 1978 and 1980. Owing something to some of the off-shoots of the earlier Armchair Theatre, the new series used scripts adapted from published novels and stories. Although not properly a horror series it included...
(1967), The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady
The Portrait of a Lady is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in The Atlantic Monthly and Macmillan's Magazine in 1880–81 and then as a book in 1881...
(1968), ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), The Way We Live Now
The Way We Live Now (1969 TV serial)
The Way We Live Now is an adaptation of the novel The Way We Live Now as a serial for television, first broadcast in 1969.-Partial cast:*Colin Blakely - Augustus Melmotte*Rachel Gurney - Lady Carbury*Sharon Gurney - Henrietta Carbury...
(1969), Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British drama television series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975, and a sixth series shown on the BBC on three consecutive nights, 26–28 December 2010.Set in a...
(1971–1973), Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner
Dangerous Corner was the first play by the English writer J. B. Priestley. It was premiered in May 1932 by Tyrone Guthrie at the Lyric Theatre, London, and filmed in 1934 by Phil Rosen....
(1974), and Fall of Eagles
Fall of Eagles
Fall of Eagles is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series was created by John Elliot and produced by Stuart Burge....
(1974).
Gurney remained active in theatre during the 1970s. She appeared as Mrs Darling in Peter Pan
Peter Pan
Peter Pan is a character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie . A mischievous boy who can fly and magically refuses to grow up, Peter Pan spends his never-ending childhood adventuring on the small island of Neverland as the leader of his gang the Lost Boys, interacting with...
at the Palladium
Palladium
Palladium is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pd and an atomic number of 46. It is a rare and lustrous silvery-white metal discovered in 1803 by William Hyde Wollaston. He named it after the asteroid Pallas, which was itself named after the epithet of the Greek goddess Athena, acquired...
in 1975. In 1977 Gurney made her American stage debut Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway
Off-Broadway theater is a term for a professional venue in New York City with a seating capacity between 100 and 499, and for a specific production of a play, musical or revue that appears in such a venue, and which adheres to related trade union and other contracts...
as Mrs. Clandon in George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for drama, and he wrote more than 60...
's You Never Can Tell at the Roundabout Theatre in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
.
Later career
In 1980 Gurney made her Broadway debut in Major Barbara. She returned to Broadway twice more in The Dresser (1981–1982) and Breaking the Code (1988). She also appeared in a major role in the Noel Coward play Mr. and Mrs Edgehill in 1985.She also appeared in the television shows Lost Empires
Lost Empires
Lost Empires is a 1986 television adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel of the same name, and starred Colin Firth, John Castle and Laurence Olivier. It was shown as a miniseries, and premiered on UK TV in October 1986.-Plot:...
(1986), Richard III
Richard III
-People:*Richard III, Duke of Normandy *Richard III of Capua *Richard III of Gaeta *Richard III of England -Biography:*Richard III , a 1955 biography of the English king by Paul Murray Kendall...
(1989), and Little Sir Nicholas (1990).
She died in Norfolk
Norfolk
Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
in 2001 from Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease also known in medical literature as Alzheimer disease is the most common form of dementia. There is no cure for the disease, which worsens as it progresses, and eventually leads to death...
.