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May 5, 2023 · Wade, who served 16 years as Ancaster mayor, died at age 89. - Metroland file photo. Bob Wade, who stunned the community by becoming the first mayor of the amalgamated City of Hamilton in 2000 ...
May 5, 2023 · Hamilton’s 53rd mayor has died. Bob Wade, who served in the municipality’s top post between 2000 and 2003, passed away Thursday night. There were no details given on the nature of his death at ...
Bob Wade, a Texas artist whose 40-foot-long iguana sculpture once perched atop the Lone Star Cafe in Manhattan and whose 63-foot-high saxophone lured patrons to a blues nightclub in Houston, died Dec. 24 at his home in Austin. He was 76. His wife, Lisa Wade, said the cause was cardiac arrest.
Dec 28, 2019 · By W.K. Stratton. December 28, 2019 1. Bob "Daddy-O" Wade celebrating the induction of his 40-foot-tall boots to the Guinness Book of World Records outside of North Star Mall in San Antonio in ...
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GM Raymond Keene. I first encountered Bob when I was at primary school and just ten years old. He came to give a series of lectures to the school chess club, and I recall that he looked rather like a weather-beaten sea captain – or rather a ten-year-old's concept of what a weather-beaten sea captain should look like.
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Robert Graham Wade, player, writer, arbiter, coach and chess promoter, was born in New Zealand, where he won the national championship three times. After moving to England he won the British Championship twice and played for England in six Olympiads. He beat Korchnoi and helped Bobby Fischer prepare for his match in Reykjavik.
In the days before computer databases the Wade library was often used by British and foreign players in preparation for matches. Robert Wade was taken to the queen Elisabeth Hospital in Woolwich on Wednesday morning with severe pneumonia. He died on Saturday November 29th 2008 at 03:00 a.m.. Bob, you will be sadly missed.
