...who became a towering figure in astronomy, died at age 84. This guy was veddy, veddy Briddish:
Geoffrey Ronald Burbidge...
Geoffrey, not Jeffrey.
...was born in 1925 in Chipping Norton in England,
Chipping Norton? Is that the name of a town? Sounds like something you eat.
...in the Cotswolds hills halfway between Oxford and Stratford-on-Avon.
In Merrie Olde England!
...His father, Leslie, was a builder. His mother, Evelyn, was a milliner.
Or was his father named Evelyn and his mother, Leslie? No matter.
...He was an only child and the first of his family to progress beyond grammar school.
The first in his family to progress beyond grammar school gets a PhD in theoretical physics?
There will always be an England!
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