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She was born 19th April 1907 and died 9th March 1984 having been awarded a CBE for her life's work. The only child of the composer Gustav Holst, she is particularly known for her educational work at Dartington Hall near Totnes, in the 1940s. She was a composer, arranger, conductor, teacher, musicologist, and festival administrator and, for 20 years, was joint artistic director of the Aldeburgh Festival. In addition to composing music, she wrote composer biographies, much educational material, and several books on the life and works of her father. Her grave is immediately behind those of Benjamin Britten and Peter Pears.

... designed by John Piper, on the north wall of SS Peter & Paul, Aldeburgh.

Burial place of Benjamin Britten (d.1976), Peter Pears (d.1986) and Imogen Holst (d.1984) - musicians closely associated with the Aldeburgh Festival.

He is buried with his wife and added to her headstone. James McAdam Clark, CVO, MC, BSc, diplomat and scientist. On leaving school in 1933 he was awarded a Leverhulme Scholarship and graduated from Edinburgh University in 1938. At the outbreak of WW2 he joined the Royal Artillery, serving in North Africa, and Italy, where, as a captain in Heavy Artillery, he was awarded the MC for bravery in the field. Thanks to his scientific background he was sent at the end of hostilities to the Royal Military College of Science. He joined the Ministry of Fuel and Power as a civil servant before being transferred to the Foreign Office and diplomatic service. From 1960 to 1964 he was posted to Vienna as counsellor and the UK's representative to the Atomic Energy Authority. Later, seconded from 1966 to 1970 to the Ministry of Technology. Finally, in 1970 he was sent as Consul General to Paris, where he was to serve under three ambassadors in a seven-year tour of duty and appointed CVO in 1972. He and his wife retired to Aldeburgh in Suffolk. He met his future wife Denise Therese Dufournier, a young French barrister, in 1939. She was to achieve fame as a Resistance worker for Reseau Comet. Betrayed in 1943, she survived incarceration in the Ravensbruck concentration camp to return to England, and marry James in 1946. They had two daughters.

Off Church Close

Near St.Peter & St.Paul's Church

In this corner of SS Peter & Paul, the memorials to Newson (above) and Louisa Garrett (below) the parents of Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, first woman doctor in England and first female mayor (here in Aldeburgh).

C14 with a lot of C16 additions. Restored 1870-1 and 1891.

To give him his full name: Count Maurice Rudolph Coreth von und zu Coredo und Starkenberg. He was brought to England by his aristocratic parents in 1936 to escape the Nazis. As a 10-year-old boarding school student when the German invasion of Poland set off World War II. That prompted him to steal his headmaster's bicycle and pedal off with a friend to enlist in the British Army. To suggest he was imbued with a spirit of adventure would be something of an understatement. Despite breaking his back in a steeplechase he became Master of the Wilton Hunt at 21. He later settled on a farm in Kenya, and spent the better part of a decade riding horses (he won the Kenyan Grand National) and hunting big game. But when he had to give up his farm after Kenya gained independence in 1963, he left Africa and bought a 50-foot ketch and sought adventure on the high seas, typically without any experience of seamanship. Somehow he found time to marry and raise a family. Survivors include his wife, Jenny, three sons and a daughter. Settling in Yoxford in Suffolk, he attended meetings of a group of former big-game hunters. Attending a lecture in 1985 on the plight of the Kenyan black rhino he took it upon himself to save the Black Rhino. Enlisting the support of celebrities like Prince Philip, Prince Bernhardt of the Netherlands and Jimmy Stewart and established a game reserve for Rhinos. Someone said "If the black rhino has a future it will be more due to Coreth than almost anyone else.” The headstone shows a relief carving executed by his son, Mark, himself a wildlife sculptor.