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suggests that he was notable in the 1940s and the 1950s and the 1960s and the 1970s and the 1980s and the 1990s and the 2000s etc. etc. We don't vote on whether he "ought to be" notable.
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I have added in the sources that Cunard gave above and formatted things a little. He is clearly notable.
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