Diana Mary Syms [Bradley] (1932-2010)

Dates

Birth: 19 January 1932 Richond upon Thames, Surrey, UK
Father: Arthur John Sims (Syms) 1903-1979
Mother: Edith Aline (Alice) Durrant 1900-1981

Marriage: April-June 1953 N Surrey, UK
Husband: John David Bradley 1920-2004

Death: 11 August 2010 London, UK
Buried: 2 September 2010 Salisbury, Wiltshire, UK

Children

Michael J H Bradley 1954
Jane M Bradley 1957
David J Bradley 1963

Notes

Birth of Diana M Syms, mother's maiden name Durrant, in FreeBMD in January-March 1932 in Richmond S (2a 897).

Marriage of Diana M Syms and John D Bradley in FreeBMD in April-June 1953 in Surrey N (5g 776).

Entry in Ancestry UK, Outward Passenger Lists, 1890-1960 for Diana Mary Syms (now Bradley) aged 21, of 48 Palewell Park, SW14 and a secretary departed from London on 4 June 1953 for Sydney, Australia on the Mooltan, P&O. Although it indicates she was not accompanied by her husband there is an entry for John David Bradley aged 32 of 157 South Park Road, SW19, and an etomologist bound for the Solomon Isles.

Her son was born in Kensington in 1954 and daughter in Ealing in 1957.

Her son was registered in January-March 1963 in Ealing.

There are ten entries in Ancestry London, England, Electoral Registers, 1832-1965 for Diana M Bradley address 58b Kenway Road, Earls Court, Kensington in 1955, and 53 Osterley Road, Spring Grove, Isleworth from 1956 to 1965, other occupant John D Bradley (husband?) in all.

Her husband died in Taunton in 2004.

Entry in Ancestry UK, Electoral Registers, 2003-2010 for MS Diana M Bradley, born in 1930-1932, address Flat 8, Ariel Court, Goldhawk Road W12 9PH, London in 2010.

Entry in 192.com for Diana Bradley in the Electoral Roll 2010 aged 56-60 and living in London W12.

Two entries in People Trace UK for Diana Mary Bradley - 6 Ashchurch Park Villas, London W12 9SP, and Pennard Mansions, Flat 1, Goldhawk Road, London W12 8DL, and one for Diana M Bradley - Ariel Court, Flat 6, Goldhawk Road, London W12 8DL from 1994 to 2015.

Entry in the Register of Deaths for Ms Diana Mary Bradley, born on 19 January 1932, on 11 August 2010 in London W12.

Entry in The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals By Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, Michael Grayson The John Hopkins University Press Baltimore 2009 ISBN-13 978-0-8018-9304-9 P109

Diana Long-eared Sheath-tailed Bat Emballonura dianae Hill 1956
Mrs. Diana Mary Bradley (b. 1932) was the collector of the holotype of the bat. She worked for a short time for the bird-banding committee of the British Trust for Ornithology at the Natural History Museum in London. She was Treasurer of the British Ornathorlogists' Union from 1978 to 1990. In 1953 she, with her husband Dr. J. D. Bradley of the Entomological Department of the Natural History Museum, visited Rennell Island in the Solomon Islands. In 1956 she co-authored, with Thorben Wolff, the birds section of Natural History of Rennell Island, British Solomon Islands. The bat was first found on Rennell Island and was later found on other islands in the Solomons and in Papua New Guinea.

Entry in The Times Diana Mary Bradley Obituary (Archived) Published in The Times on Aug. 21, 2010 First 25 of 50 words: "Diana Mary (née Syms) peacefully on 11th August 2010 after a long illness, aged 78. Cremation at Salisbury on Thursday 2nd September at 12.45pm. Family..." and the following comment "I wonder if this was Diana Bradley, widow of John who was a director of Shell Mex and Chairman of Governors at Queen's College Taunton. If so my sympathies to the family, Robert Lintott"

There are fifteen entries in Bulletin of the British Ornithologists' Club for Diana Bradley attending meetings between 1982 and 1986.

There is an entry in NEXOK for Diana Mary Bradley born in January 1932, of 6 Ariel Court, Ashchurch Park Villas, London, W12 9SR appointed director of Kenway Estates on 9 October 1991 and resigned on 11 August 2010, director of St. Pauls League Benevolent Fund Limited from 3 January 1995 to 15 June 2002, of Ariel Court Residents Association Limited from 14 June 2003 to 26 February 2009, and of Dimalgeo Properties Limited from 10 June 2002 to 10 June 2003.

Relationship

Diana Mary Syms was my half fourth cousin.

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