The late daughter of schoolteachers from Sidcup, Kent and a mother of two, Gillian Clarke met her Conservative politician husband Kenneth at Cambridge in 1963. A redoubtable “rock” to her husband and “gracious hostess”, Clarke could not drive but was a “highly acclaimed scholar in medieval history”. She was well-known for her work helping prisoners and ex-prisoners.
![Evelyn McHale (1923 – 1947) – Little is known about what drove Evelyn McHale to jump from the Empire State Building and be captured in the “most beautiful suicide [photograph] ever” on 1st May 1947.](https://b1779429.smushcdn.com/1779429/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/Evelyn-McHale-FI.jpg?lossy=1&strip=1&webp=0)
