Firebrace, Roy C.
From Astro-Databank
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| born on | 16 August 1889 at 21:00 (= 9:00 PM ) | ||
| Place | Halifax, Canada, 44n39, 63w36 | ||
| Timezone | GMT h0w (is standard time) | ||
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| Astrology data |   24°07'   06°14 Asc. 11°05'
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Biography
Canadian Brigadier Commander of the British Empire. He was a soldier, a diplomat, an author, editor, statistician and a sidereal astrologer, known and respected in his field. He was reputed to be Churchill's astrologer during WW II. Firebrace was also one of the first officers to interview Rudolf Hess and report his impressions of this odd and possibly quixotic captive who might have been astrologically impelled to Churchill.
Well known is astrological circles as an active leader-founder in connection with various UK astrological societies, he was the instigator along with Cyril Fagan of "Spica," one of first modern journal of sidereal astrology.
Firebrace died on 11/10/1974.
Events
- Work : New Job 1984 (Curator for the San Francisco Fine Arts Museum)
- Death, Cause unspecified 10 November 1974 (Age 85)
Source Notes
Axel Harvey quotes him in SPICA 1/1973, p.39, given as 9:00:19 PM GMT. Lyndoe gave 9:02 PM GMT in AA 4/1969.
(Malcom Dean, "The Astrology Game", Musson-Nelson Foster Scott, Toronto, 1980; pp 209-226.)
Categories
- Vocation : Art : Art critic (Museum curator)
- Vocation : Occult Fields : Astrologer (Pro, Sideralist)
- Vocation : Writers : Publisher/ Editor (Editor)
- Personal : Death : Long life more than 80 yrs (Age 85)
- Vocation : Writers : Astrology
- Vocation : Military : Military career (Brigadier Commander)
- Vocation : Science : Mathematics/ Statistics (Statistician)
- Notable : Famous : Top 5% of Profession
- Notable : Book Collection : Occult/ Misc. Collection
