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David Dunhill, who has died aged 88, was a well-known radio announcer with the BBC, and worked for the Corporation for nearly five decades. [...]

David Penrose Dunhill, one of three children, was born on March 1 1917. His father, Thomas F Dunhill, was a composer (a contemporary of Hubert Parry and John Ireland) and the brother of Alfred Dunhill, who founded the tobacco firm; his mother, Molly Arnold, who died from TB when her son was 12, was the great-grand-daughter of Dr Arnold of Rugby and the great-niece of the poet Matthew Arnold.

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