Ansell, Mike, Sir
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Fuller Name
- Michael Picton
Variants
- Ansell, Michael Picton, Sir.
Additional Information
Birth Date
- 1905-03-26
Death Date
- 1994-02-17
Birth Place
- Camp Curragh (Ireland)
Associated Language
- English
Field of Activity
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Earlier Established Forms
- Ansell, Michael Picton, Sir.
Sources
- found: His Jumping, 1934.
- found: Soldier on, 1973:t.p. (Sir Mike Ansell)
- found: Oxford dictionary of national biography WWW site, 20 June, 2019(Ansell, Sir Michael Picton, army officer and showjumping administrator; born at The Curragh, co. Kildare, Ireland, on 26 March 1905; by 1949 he was totally blind; After the Second World War, Ansell elected to take up horticulture; developed a successful flower-growing business at Pillhead House, Bideford, Devon, where he lived for fifty years; chairman of the British Show Jumping Association in 1945-64 Ansell did much to revitalize the sport; died of bronchopneumonia and Alzheimer's disease at St Dunstan's, Abbey Road, Brighton, on 17 February 1994; knighted in 1968 for his services to showjumping) - https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-54707?rskey=b3vvTK&result=6
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Change Notes
- 1979-06-21: new
- 2019-06-21: revised
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