John Kentish

John Kentish

John William Kentish (1910 - 2006) was an English operatic tenor born in Blackheath, Kent on 21 January 1910 and died in Chipping Norton, oxfordshire on 26 October 2006. Elder brother of the painter David Kentish

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* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article645945.ece Obituary]


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