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Cheshire, (Geoffrey) Leonard (1917–1992)| English pilot and philanthropist. Commissioned into the Royal Air Force on the outbreak of World War II, he was decorated several times. A devout Roman Catholic, he founded the first Cheshire Foundation Home for the Incurably Sick in 1948. In 1959 he married Susan Ryder (1923– ), who established a foundation for the sick and disabled of all ages and became a life peeress in 1978. |
| He won the Victoria Cross, Distinguished Service Order (with 2 bars), and Distinguished Flying Cross. In 1945 he was an official observer at the dropping of the atom bomb on Nagasaki. Baron 1991. |
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