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Malcolm Sargent
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(1895–1967, kt 1947) Conductor who was perhaps the best known of his generation in Britain, partly because he conducted a large number of choral societies up and down the country, but also as the principal conductor of the *Proms from Wood's death in 1944 until his own. He was also famously svelte and had a reputation as a conversationalist, appearing as a guest on the wartime Brains Trust.
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Sarum Medieval Latin name for *Salisbury, probably an abbreviation of the older Sarisburia. It is still used in ecclesiastical contexts and in the place name of Old Sarum (see *borough); the present city is in these terms New Sarum.
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