Wednesday, 3 October 2007

Ned Sherrin. A national treasure, a supreme wit, a frightening intellect and one of the most entertaining people ever to grace our airwaves!

Edward George (Ned) Sherrin was born into a farming family at Low Ham in the Somerset Levels, Sherrin attended Sexey's School, in Bruton, Somerset. Although he read law at Exeter College, Oxford and subsequently qualified as a barrister, he became involved in theatre at Oxford and joined British television at the founding of independent television in 1956, producing shows for ATV.

Ned was an openly gay man, he was a patron of the London Gay Symphony Orchestra. Sherrin was awarded a CBE in the 1997 New Year’s honours list. He died of complications of throat cancer on 1 October 2007 aged 76.

Ned on LGBT History Month Web page.
http://lgbthmuk.blogspot.com/2007/10/ned-sherrin-dies.html
Ned on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_Sherrin
Ned on GALHA
http://www.galha.org/glh/251/sherrin.html

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