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Ross McWhirter
Born
Alan Ross McWhirter
(1925-08-12)12 August 1925
Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, England
Died
27 November 1975(1975-11-27) (aged 50)
Enfield, London, England
Cause of death
Gunshot
Education
Marlborough College Trinity College, Oxford
Occupations
Writer
political activist
television presenter
Notable credit(s)
The Guinness Book of Records, Record Breakers
Spouse
Rosemary J. Hamilton-Grice[1][2]
Relatives
Norris McWhirter (twin brother)
Alan Ross McWhirter (12 August 1925 – 27 November 1975) was, with his twin brother, Norris, the cofounder of the 1955 Guinness Book of Records (known since 2000 as Guinness World Records) and a contributor to the television programme Record Breakers. He was assassinated by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) in 1975.[2]
^General Registrar's Office, register of marriages
^ ab"1975: TV presenter Ross McWhirter shot dead". BBC News. 27 November 1975. Archived from the original on 7 March 2008. Retrieved 10 April 2010.
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Sir Hugh Beaver, the book was co-founded by twin brothers Norris and RossMcWhirter in Fleet Street, London, in August 1955. The first edition topped the...
McWhirter, Norris; McWhirter, Ross (1970). New Guinness Book of Records. Guinness Superlatives. p. 17. Retrieved 9 August 2016. Mcwhirter, Norris; McFarlan...
his death in 1994, alongside Norris and (until his murder in 1975) RossMcWhirter, Fiona Kennedy and Cheryl Baker. From then on, hosting was taken over...
IRA gunmen assassinated political activist and television personality RossMcWhirter in Enfield Town, London. 1975, 6–12 December: Balcombe Street siege:...
Publishers. pp. 556–571. ISBN 1-56000-901-2. Andrew Sanders and F. Stuart Ross (January 2020). "The Canadian Dimension to the Northern Ireland Conflict"...
November 2015] Guinness Book of Records 1966, ed. by Norris McWhirter and RossMcWhirter (London: Guinness, 1965) 'Saturday Club' Archived 2015-11-18...
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gentler sex. Edwin Mellen Press. p. 44. ISBN 978-0-7734-6000-3. RossMcWhirter; Norris McWhirter (1972). Guinness Book of World Records. Sterling Publishing...
Guinness Book of Records co-founder and conservative political activist RossMcWhirter was assassinated; he had offered a £50,000 reward to anyone willing...
ships clash, marking the beginning of the third Cod War. 27 November – RossMcWhirter, 50, co-founder with his twin of the Guinness Book of Records, is shot...
him "were the events that were happening around" him. These included the McGurk's Bar bombing in the New Lodge, some of those killed being people who...
Freedom (NAFF) by the Viscount De L'Isle, Norris McWhirter, RossMcWhirter and John Gouriet. RossMcWhirter had drawn up a fifteen-point Charter of Rights...
Swithun's Day". Weather Online. Retrieved 23 May 2012. Norris and RossMcWhirter. Guinness Book of records (1973 ed.). p. 76. Andrew Godsell "Saint Swithin...
addition to bombings, they carried out several assassination attempts. RossMcWhirter, a right wing politician who had offered a £50,000 reward for information...
387–35). 1975 – The Provisional IRA assassinates RossMcWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those...
from the original on 28 December 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2018. McWhirter, Ross; McWhirter, Norris, eds. (1964). "Earliest successful manned satellite"....
America (University of Arizona Press, 1982) pp. 183-1850 Norris and RossMcWhirter, GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS (New York: Sterling Pub. Co., 1989 edit...
blasts happened within a minute of each other. One exploded outside Boots and McDonald's, and one outside the Argos catalogue store. The area was crowded with...
William "Frenchie" Marchant Martin McBirney Jerry McCabe Robert McConnell Jean McConville Columba McVeigh RossMcWhirter Stephen Melrose Lord Mountbatten...
William "Frenchie" Marchant Martin McBirney Jerry McCabe Robert McConnell Jean McConville Columba McVeigh RossMcWhirter Stephen Melrose Lord Mountbatten...
joined an elite group within the IRA called "The Unknowns" commanded by Pat McClure.: 103–4 The Unknowns were tasked with various secretive activities and...
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