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Obituary

Obituary: Eric Christiansen

19 November 2016

9:00 AM

19 November 2016

9:00 AM

Over the past year, we have lost two names cherished by Spectator readers. Rodney Milnes, our opera critic for 20 years before he moved to the Times, as well as editing the monthly magazine Opera, died last December, and Eric Christiansen, the Oxford medieval historian, who was a regular book reviewer here for many years, followed on the last day of October.

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