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From: Shields Gazette (South Shields, England)
Date: 20080125
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ONE half of a glamourous and aristocratic South Shields couple has died at the age 86.

Baroness Anne Manhattan passed away at South Tyneside District Hospital last week.

She had spent the final decade of her life at Windsor Nursing Home, in Hebburn, after suffering a severe stroke.

Her late husband was the famous writer and raconteur Baron Avro Manhattan, a man who had counted Picasso and George Bernard Shaw among his many friends.

Before the baron's death in 1990, the couple were feted as the borough's most glamourous couple.

But despite owning homes in ...

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