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Charmian biggs biography sample The first wife of Great Train robber Ronnie Biggs has died aged 75, just a year after the criminal husband with whom she went into hiding in Australia also passed away. Charmian Brent was 17 when she met Biggs, then 27 and already a petty criminal, on a commuter train in - and her school headmaster father forbade her from seeing him. His advice was well-founded. Scroll down for video. Death: Charmian Brent left was 17 when she met Biggs right , then 27 and already a petty criminal, on a commuter train in

Charmian (Powell) Brent ( - )

CharmianBrent formerly Powell aka Biggs

Born in Brackley, Northamptonshire, England, United Kingdom

Daughter of Bernard Benjamin J. Powell and Muriel A.

Rawbone

[sibling(s) unknown]

[children unknown]

Died at about age 75in Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

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Biography

Charmian was born in at Brackley, Northhamptonshire. Her parents were Bernard Powell and Muriel Rawbone, who married at Brackley in

She married Ronnie Biggs in at Surrey South Eastern in , and they divorced in She changed her name to Brent by deed poll.

She passed away in

Sources

  • Birth Registration: "England & Wales Birth Index"
    FreeBMD Entry Information (accessed 22 October )
    Powell, Charmian (Mother's maiden name: Rawbone).
    GRO Reference: Apr-May-Jun in Brackley Volume 3b Page 7.
  • Marriage Registration : "England & Wales Marriage Index"
    FreeBMD Entry Information (accessed 19 October )
    Biggs, Ronald A.

    married Charmian Powell
    GRO Reference: Jan-Feb-Mar in Surrey S.E. Volume 5g Page

  • Ronnie Biggs Obituary,
  • Flitton, Daniel (). Charmian Brent, ex-wife of train robber Ronnie Biggs, dies in Melbourne at The Age, updated 30 December (accessed 22 Oct ).
  • Page, Wendy (). Charmian Brent, the former wife of great train robber Ronnie Biggs, dies.

    ABC, updated 30 December (accessed 22 Oct ).

    Charmian biggs biography sample pdf Topic: Death and Dying. Charmian Brent, the ex-wife of Ronnie Biggs, has died. She was Brent was just 17 when she met and fell in love with Biggs, a petty criminal who had spent time in prison. Biggs was part of a large group of men who in hijacked a Royal Mail train while it was travelling from Glasgow to London, known as the Great Train Robbery.





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