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Article: Obituary : Ted Nightingale
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 29, 1996
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Ted Nightingale was blessed with two characteristics that never
failed to impress anyone meeting him for the first time - a deep
love for life in Africa, first in Sudan and then in Kenya, and a
fierce determination to make the best of every circumstance. He
played polo until he was 85, retiring only when his horse grew too
old. And at 90 he forced himself to do something that often
flummoxes men half his age: he learnt to use a computer to write
his first book, which will be published next year.
It is unfashionable to find anything good to say about the
British in Africa, but Nightingale was the best sort of colonial
officer. Modest, humorous, unfailingly kind, he was concerned above
all ...