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Another tribute to Mervyn

REMEMBERING MERVYN GOULD by Prof. John Lucas
My relationship with Mervyn, which stretches back thirty years, began in 1979 when he was appointed Theatre Manager to Loughborough University’s Department of English and Drama — or, as he was soon calling it, Department of Anguish and trauma. Not long after our first meeting I went into the [...]

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Another tribute to Mervyn

MERVYN, THE MAN.    Contributed by Llewellyn Williams  (husband of Gerrie/Leonie)
I fully expect that the tributes to our friend posted on this site, plus a really adequate version of his C.V., would more than fill an edition of the Bioscope – and then some!  So, what can I add?
I once told Mervyn that he was ‘just [...]

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Annual General Meeting

(The following mailing from our Chairman was included in the November Bioscope)
MERCIA CINEMA SOCIETY
Registered charity no 1001524

From the Chairman
19 Pinder’s Grove
Wakefield WF1 4AH
kate@airtime.co.uk

9 November 2009
Dear Member,
Mervyn Gould

It is with very great sadness that I have to report the death of our Administrator, Mervyn Gould, on 28 October.  The funeral is at Loughborough Crematorium on [...]

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Another tribute to Mervyn

TRIBUTE TO MERVYN STOCKBRIDGE GOULD from Gerrie Williams. (stage name Gerrie Raymond in younger days and Leonie Wilde in later ones)
There are very few truly Renaissance Men left in the world, and even fewer genuinely ‘larger than life’ characters. Mervyn was both of these, in spades.
He worked of course in many branches of the theatrical [...]

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A tribute to Mervyn

FROM SIMON BLACK
For those who know me, my profound apologies for not being here in person, since family commitments make it impossible for me to get away from Cardiff for this sad day.
It was with great regret that I heard about the passing away of Mervyn Stockbridge Gould.  A great leading light of the theatrical [...]

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Mervyn's Funeral

There were three Eulogies given at Mervyn’s funeral last Friday.
The one below was given by Kate Taylor, Chairman of the Society as the third reading, covering his involvement with Mercia. The others will be uploaded when available.
Mervyn Gould

Mervyn burst into Mercia Cinema Society at a committee meeting on 13 March 1993. It was a [...]

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More about Mervyn

Various society newsletter editorss have been contacting us asking about Mervyn’s career in order to write obituaries. There is a very succinct biography penned by Mervyn himself on this website, reproduced below.
Mervyn Gould didn’t quite run away with the circus, but did do his first show whilst still a VIth-former. When the Regal Boston [...]

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