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General => Beckett, Bond, Pinter discussion => Topic started by: Iain Fisher on January 04, 2009, 08:51:37 PM
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Here is Pinter's grave in Kensal Green cemetery in London (close to where I live). The grave is unmarked at present.
(http://www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-grave.jpg)
More details are here:
www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-grave.html (http://www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-grave.html)
He is in the company of writers Anthony Trollope, William Makepeace Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and playwright Terence Rattigan; engineers Marc and Isambard Kingdon Brunel; Dickens illustrator George Cruikshank; computer inventor Charles Babbage; industrialist Carl Siemens; and Emile Blondin who crossed the Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
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Pinter's grave now has a temporary plaque on it. Photos soon (when I work out how to get them from my phone to my computer).
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Pinter's estate was £4,335,984. In his will he left most of his money to his wife, and she also has the literary rights to his works.
- His estranged 51-year-old son Daniel is left a cottage and £300,000. The two did not speak and the son did not attend Pinter's funeral.
- Lady Antonia’s three sons and three daughters were left £10,000 each in the will.
- Pinter also left £1,000 to the touring Gaieties Cricket Team, of which he was chairman, stating that they should use it ‘in the purchase of a few new balls’.
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240142/Estranged-son-left-300-000-Harold-Pinter-despite-having-spoken-playwright-15-years-death.html (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1240142/Estranged-son-left-300-000-Harold-Pinter-despite-having-spoken-playwright-15-years-death.html)
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The grave now
(http://www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-burial.jpg)
and the horizontal gravestone
(http://www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-gravestone.jpg)
more details here
www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-grave.html (http://www.iainfisher.com/pinter/harold-pinter-grave.html)