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I've done a major copyedit, but this article still lacks any information about Rayner's career as a nurse, and how she moved from this to being an agony aunt and then a journalist. If anyone has read her biography and feels like summarising it in a couple of paragraphs, it would really improve the article. And as
Luligal points out above, there is no photo of her, which is a shame
~dom Kaos~ (
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10:44, 29 May 2010 (UTC)reply
The article previously gave Berk as her birth name, but only The Guardian obituary appears to use this piece of information (I have not seen The Times), while the Telegraph, as we indicate, does say her father changed the family name, and both that newspaper and The Independent give Chetwynd as her birth name. Other than sources derived from this article, and The Guardian, no online source suggests she was born a Berk. So it looks like an error introduced in to Wikipedia.
She was actually registered as Claire B. Berkovitch in the first quarter of 1931 according to
[1] Her parents used the name Berkovitch when they married in 1930 and her sister Sheila (1932) was also registered with the surname Berkovitch. Her other sister (1934) and brother (1940) was registered with the name Berk.
MilborneOne (
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15:15, 13 October 2010 (UTC)reply
According to the ODNB (which cites her birth certificate) she was born with the name Berkovitch. However her mother later changed the family surname "from Berkovitch to Berk to Brandon, finally settling on Chetwynd" which is how she was known until her marriage. I therefore propose we use 'Claire Berenice Berkovitch (later Chetwynd)' in the birth name section of the infobox. I have already updated this and cited the aforementioned source.
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14:47, 26 August 2020 (UTC)reply