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John Sharp, BSC, CChem, FRSC, Hon. MRPharmS, CBiol, MiBiol, FIQA was born on 19th October 1930 in Chiswick, London where he also grew up. He married in 1963 and lived initially in Perivale Middlesex, before moving to Maidenhead in Berkshire and 乐天堂app下载n finally to Woodley (near Reading) in Berkshire where he lived with his wife for 乐天堂app下载 last 30 years of his life. 

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John is survived by his wife, Doris Elizabeth Sharp, and his two sons Richard Simon Jonathan Sharp and Colin Stuart Jeremy Sharp.

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