Pamela is pictured here in November with Catherine Colonna then French Ambassador to the UK.
Rosanna was known as a very friendly, inquisitive, strong and positive person who was adept at communicating with people of all ages, nations, backgrounds and interests.
As the daughter of a Master Brewer for a large brewery, her childhood years were spent in Suffolk, Bedfordshire, Hampstead Garden Suburb, 3 years in Ontario, Canada as a war-time child evacuee and in Christchurch Hill, Hampstead.
After training as a Teacher and working for 5 years at Francis Holland School, Regents Park, she married a diplomat and embarked on a cosmopolitan global-hopping role as a highly applauded support to her husband and then to being an Ambassador’s wife. Many of their postings were in the Middle East, where she learned Arabic and excelled at integrating into local cultures and socialising with local women and wives of leaders.
On returning to England in her early fifties, she then further trained as a Dyslexic Therapist and embarked on a 30+ year career until she was 87 years old as a competent and sought after Teacher to many children across North London schools.
Rosanna’s interests and skills included sculpture, woodwork, pottery, local and international walking holidays, taking her dog on to the Heath, swimming in the Kenwood Ladies’ Pond and keenly helping and supporting children and their parents.
She was married to a Catholic in St Mary’s, Hampstead, later converted to Catholicism herself and became one of our committed parishioners and readers. She had 3 boys, 2 of whom survive her and will greatly miss her.
Rosanna Mccarthy RIP
Our dear friend Piers is remembered in several obituaries in the national and local press which you may have read by now. They all speak of him as a good, kind, gentle man, an extremely talented broadcaster, writer and painter. He is a great loss to us at St Mary’s but what an honour and delight it was to have him with us for as a long as we did. Read more about PIers: https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/news/obituaries/piers-plowright-tributes-obituary-hampstead-melvyn-bragg-8203840
With sadness the Diocese of Westminster announced the death on 15th January 2021 of Mgr Mark Anthony Edmund Langham. Mgr Mark died peacefully at the Hospice of St John and Elizabeth, St John’s Wood where he had received end of life care since 6th January.
Mgr Mark was born in London on 28th November 1960 and ordained to the priesthood on 16th September 1990 by Cardinal Basil Hume at St Edmund of Canterbury, Whitton.
Sympathy is extended to Mgr Mark’s family and friends, and to the clergy and parishioners of the parishes and Cambridge University chaplaincy, and in the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity at the Vatican, where Mgr Mark served.
Natasha Alford
7 October 1994 to 30 January 2017
Maureen Singer 3rd March 1947 to 29th June 2019
