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Joan de Carteret

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Biography

Early life

Career

Chairman of Rothwell Urban District Council

Lord Mayor of Leeds

In October 1974, de Carteret opened Thurston's new bakery premises.[1]

Personal life

Joan de Carteret lived at 6 Manor Close, Rothwell in 1967.[2]

Death

On 28 August 1975, de Carteret, her husband Leslie, and friends Fred and Kate Tasker were killed when a 25-ton articulated lorry overturned on top of their car at a road junction at Hardisty Bridge, Blubberhouses, West Yorkshire. The lorry driver, Lawrence Southall, suffered minor injuries.[3]

References

  1. Tuffrey, P. (2012) Yorkshire People at Work. Gloucestershire: Amberley Publishing. Available at: https://archive.org/details/yorkshirepeoplea0000unse (Accessed: 29 August 2023).
  2. Anon (1967) ‘Additions to Commissions’, Justice of the Peace and Local Government Review Reports, 131(33), p. 513–513. Available at: https://archive.org/details/sim_criminal-law-justice-weekly_1967-08-19_131_33
  3. Daily Mail (1975) ‘Two are Killed in Coach Smash’, 29 August, p. 2. Available at: https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19750829/007/0002 (Accessed: 29 August 2023).
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