Professor Charles Vevers Phythian-Adams, who died 13 May, 2025, aged 87, was head of that landed gentry family.
He was Emeritus Professor, Department of English Local History (now the Centre for Regional and Local History), University of Leicester.
He was born 28 July, 1937, son of the Rev William John Telia Phythian-Adams, DSO, MC (1888-1967), of Guildford, Surrey, and his wife the former Adela Noel Evelyn Robinson (1901-1983); and married 1st, 20 April, 1965 (div), Moira Joscelyn Groves, daughter of Maj. Harold Owen Groves, RA, of Sawley, Yorkshire, by his wife the former Maureen Agnes Cannon, by whom he had two daughters, Miranda Emma (born 10 June, 1966), and Julia Mary (born 15 Oct, 1967).
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