He had no fear of science and greatly admired the wisdom of those 17th-century ecclesiastics who threw their energies into royal society. He pleaded for imaginative understanding of others and commended the children's prayer "O God, make the nice people good; and the good people nice".It was unfortunate for the Church that Edward Carpenter was 64 before he became Dean but he has left a legacy of tolerant, determined openness as a vital trait of 20th- century Christianity. He and his wife gave themselves unstintingly to others and contributed a happy sparkle in their home at Westminster in their laughter and scholarship.Edward Frederick Carpenter, priest: born 27 November 1910; ordained deacon 1935, priest 1936; Curate, Holy Trinity, St Marylebone 1935-41; Curate, St Mary, Harrow 1941-45; Rector of Great Stanmore 1945-51; Canon of Westminster 1951, Treasurer 1959-74, Archdeacon 1963-74, Dean of Westminster 1974-85; Lector Theologiae of Westminster Abbey 1958; Joint Chairman, London Society of Jews and Christians 1960-85; KCVO 1985; married Lilian Wright (three sons, one daughter); died Twickenham, Middlesex 28 August 1998.. Like every other Englishman who worked with de Gaulle, Grieve was more often than not exasperated by the great Frenchman, and for many years he liked to quote Churchill's statement to the effect that the heaviest cross he had to bear was the Cross of Lorraine - that cross being de Gaulle's chosen emblem for his army in exile. However, unlike others - most notably General Sir Edward Spears, who had arranged de Gaulle's evacuation from France in 1940 - Grieve never lost his initial affection for and admiration for "le grand Charles", and spoke of him with warm affection even when France was being, in the 1960s, particularly obstructive to British foreign policy.Grieve's father was killed at the Battle of Ypres in the year of Grieve's birth, 1915.
De Gaulle first called the organisation which he formed in London after the surrender in 1940 of France to Germany Free France, and gave it its second appellation once his troops began to take an active part in the war. Associates recall him strapped into a surgical corset to keep himself upright in the theatre as the cancer moved to his bones, causing him agonising pain. He continued to practise at the Gemelli Hospital until six weeks ago.Francesco Crucitti, surgeon: born Reggio Calabria, Italy 17 November 1930; married Alessandra Di Lieto (two sons, one daughter); died Rome 26 August 1998.. PERCY GRIEVE was an MP for nearly 20 years, though he was more distinguished as a lawyer, being both a QC and, at various times, a Recorder.
His own fondest memories, however, were of his time, between 1941 and 1943, when he worked as a liaison officer with General de Gaulle's Fighting France. From his early years Grieve was notably absorbed by European affairs, and he was particularly Francophile in his disposition: when he married, indeed, it was to a girl who was herself half-French and half-English. Estermann and his wife Gladys were killed by a young guardsman who then committed suicide.Through Crucitti was vocal in his advice to the Pope to reduce his gruelling timetable and rest if he wished to preside over the 2000 Jubilee Holy Year celebrations, the doctor failed noticeably to take his own advice. By the third time Crucitti operated on the Pope in 1996, he too was seriously ill although, with characteristic reserve on his part, this fact remained a closely guarded secret.Struck by prostate cancer in the early 1990s, Crucitti had had his tumour operated on quietly in the United States but to no avail and metastasis occurred. "I came here to show you just how much I appreciated this man who saved my life," the pontiff told Crucitti's wife Alessandra.
The Pope also ordered the Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Angelo Sodano, to officiate at Crucitti's funeral service today.Crucitti's death comes just four months after the fatal shooting in the Vatican of Alois Estermann, the Swiss Guard officer who also helped keep John Paul alive during the 1981 shooting by throwing himself in front of the Pope as the Turkish gunman Ali Agca took aim for a second shot. This failed to keep him out of his beloved operating theatre. The Pope, Doglietto said, "is the kind of person who wants to know all about everything". For his most illustrious patient, Crucitti was only too happy to oblige.Such displays of consideration were responded to in kind earlier this week when, after his weekly audience in the Vatican and before returning to his summer retreat at Castelgandolfo, the Pope visited the Crucitti family home in Via dei Fornaci near the Vatican to pay his last respects. He prayed beside the body before talking with the doctor's family.
