Mary Knight

(Mary Lois Knight)

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Born	17 MAY 1931 , Abbey Rd, St John's Wood, London
Died	17 Dec 2023 , Smallfield
Parents	Queenie Bootes (Mother) Family Frank Knight (Father) Family
Marriage	Geoff Bristow — 21 MAR 1959 at Holy Trinity Church, Redhill Family Page

Occupation & Residence

Type	Date	Detail
Residence	BET 1832 AND 1859	Marlcot

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In their lifetime

Born in the reign of George V

Birth

17 May 1931

Born at Abbey Rd, St John's Wood, London
Age 4

20 Jan 1936

Accession of Edward VIII
Age 5

2 Nov 1936

BBC begins the world's first regular television service
Age 5

11 Dec 1936

Accession of George VI

Reigned 1936–1952
Age 5

11 Dec 1936

Edward VIII abdicates
Age 5

12 Apr 1937

Frank Whittle runs the first jet engine
Age 8

1939–1945

Britain declares war on Germany: Second World War begins
Age 9

26 May 1940

Dunkirk evacuation begins
Age 9

10 Jul 1940

Battle of Britain begins
Age 9

1940–1941

The Blitz
Age 11

23 Oct 1942

Battle of El Alamein
Age 11

1 Dec 1942

Beveridge Report published
Age 13

6 Jun 1944

D-Day landings
Age 13

3 Aug 1944

Education Act creates free secondary schooling
Age 13

8 May 1945

VE Day
Age 14

15 Aug 1945

VJ Day
Age 16

28 Jun 1947

Father Frank died
Age 16

15 Aug 1947

India and Pakistan become independent
Age 17

22 Jun 1948

HMT Empire Windrush arrives at Tilbury
Age 17

5 Jul 1948

National Health Service launched
Age 17

29 Jul 1948

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 19

1950–1953

Korean War begins
Age 20

6 Feb 1952

Accession of Queen Elizabeth II

Reigned 1952–2022
Age 21

5 Dec 1952

Great Smog of London
Age 21

31 Jan 1953

North Sea flood
Age 21

28 Feb 1953

Crick and Watson announce the structure of DNA
Age 22

29 May 1953

Hillary and Tenzing reach the summit of Everest
Age 22

2 Jun 1953

Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II
Age 22

6 May 1954

Roger Bannister runs the first sub-four-minute mile
Age 23

4 Jul 1954

Food rationing ends
Age 24

22 Sep 1955

ITV launches
Age 25

5 Jul 1956

Clean Air Act
Age 25

29 Oct 1956

Suez Crisis
Age 26

4 Oct 1957

Sputnik 1 launched: the Space Age begins
Age 26

6 Feb 1958

Munich air disaster

Eight Manchester United players among the dead.
Age 27

9 Jun 1958

Gatwick Airport officially opened

In Sussex.
Age 27

21 Mar 1959

Married Geoff Bristow at Holy Trinity Church, Redhill
Age 28

25 Jul 1959

First hovercraft crosses the Channel
Age 31

5 Oct 1962

The Beatles release their first single
Age 31

1962–1963

The Big Freeze

One of the coldest winters on record.
Age 32

22 Nov 1963

President Kennedy assassinated
Age 33

24 Jan 1965

Sir Winston Churchill dies
Age 34

8 Nov 1965

Death penalty for murder suspended
Age 35

30 Jul 1966

England win the World Cup
Age 35

21 Oct 1966

Aberfan disaster
Age 36

27 Oct 1967

Abortion Act
Age 37

2 Mar 1969

First flight of Concorde
Age 38

20 Jul 1969

First Moon landing
Age 39

15 Feb 1971

Decimal Day
Age 41

1 Jan 1973

Britain joins the European Economic Community
Age 44

21 Jan 1976

Concorde enters passenger service
Age 45

Jun 1976

The heatwave and drought of summer 1976
Age 46

7 Jun 1977

Queen's Silver Jubilee
Age 46

17 Sep 1977

Mother Queenie died
Age 47

25 Jul 1978

Louise Brown, the first IVF baby, is born
Age 47

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Prime Minister
Age 49

8 Dec 1980

John Lennon shot dead
Age 50

29 Jul 1981

Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
Age 50

2 Apr 1982

Falklands War
Age 52

1984–1985

Miners' strike
Age 54

13 Jul 1985

Live Aid
Age 54

26 Apr 1986

Chernobyl disaster
Age 55

29 Oct 1986

M25 motorway completed

It circles London through Surrey.
Age 55

6 Mar 1987

Herald of Free Enterprise ferry disaster
Age 56

16 Oct 1987

The Great Storm

Hurricane-force winds hit Surrey and Sussex especially hard.
Age 56

18 Nov 1987

King's Cross fire
Age 57

6 Jul 1988

Piper Alpha oil platform disaster
Age 57

21 Dec 1988

Lockerbie bombing
Age 57

Mar 1989

Tim Berners-Lee proposes the World Wide Web
Age 57

15 Apr 1989

Hillsborough disaster
Age 58

9 Nov 1989

Fall of the Berlin Wall
Age 59

22 Nov 1990

Margaret Thatcher resigns
Age 59

17 Jan 1991

Gulf War begins
Age 60

20 Feb 1992

The Premier League is formed
Age 61

24 Feb 1993

Bobby Moore dies
Age 62

6 May 1994

Channel Tunnel opens
Age 65

8 Jun 1996

Euro 96 begins in England
Age 65

5 Jul 1996

Dolly the sheep, the first cloned mammal, is born
Age 65

2 May 1997

Tony Blair becomes Prime Minister
Age 66

1 Jul 1997

Hong Kong handed back to China
Age 66

31 Aug 1997

Diana, Princess of Wales, dies
Age 66

10 Apr 1998

Good Friday Agreement
Age 68

26 May 1999

Manchester United win the Champions League and complete the Treble
Age 69

20 Feb 2001

Foot-and-mouth disease outbreak
Age 70

11 Sep 2001

September 11 attacks
Age 70

7 Oct 2001

War in Afghanistan begins
Age 71

20 Mar 2003

Iraq War begins
Age 72

22 Nov 2003

England win the Rugby World Cup
Age 74

7 Jul 2005

London bombings
Age 74

12 Sep 2005

England win the Ashes
Age 75

9 Jan 2007

Apple announces the iPhone
Age 77

15 Sep 2008

Lehman Brothers collapses: global financial crisis
Age 78

11 May 2010

Coalition government formed
Age 79

29 Apr 2011

Wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton
Age 81

27 Jul 2012

London hosts the Olympic Games
Age 84

2 May 2016

Leicester City win the Premier League
Age 85

23 Jun 2016

EU referendum
Age 86

14 Jun 2017

Grenfell Tower fire
Age 88

31 Jan 2020

The UK leaves the European Union
Age 88

23 Mar 2020

First COVID-19 lockdown begins
Age 91

8 Sep 2022

Accession of King Charles III
Age 91

8 Sep 2022

Queen Elizabeth II dies
Age 91

6 May 2023

Coronation of King Charles III
Age 92

17 Dec 2023

Died at Smallfield