Cornford, Robert 'Bob' Leslie 15.may.1940-17.jul.1983 Brazil, ?Sao Paulo - England, London Camden
jazz pianist, conductor, of english parentage, 31.jul.1951 from Santos Sao Paulo he and his 5 year old brother Leonard Anthony were sent to England Clarence Hotel Teddington, studied composition with Bernard Stevens and Peter Racine Fricker, conducting with Richard Austin, organ with George Thalben-Ball and Harold Darke at the Royal College of Music London, 1960 musical director at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre and Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, until 1979 conductor/producer for the Danish Radio in Copenhagen, his early death was partly due to heavy drinking