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. Eady's mother was the author

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. His father was Heinz Otto Ziegler, a Czech political scientist and Royal Air Force pilot. Eady was educated at Summer Fields School in Oxford, Bryanston School in Dorset, and read modern history at Wadham College, Oxford. He was survived by his widow, the writer

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Xue, whom he married in 2002. He had previously been married to Isobel Macleod.

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1941 births 2017 deaths Alumni of Wadham College, Oxford Deaths from cancer in the United Kingdom English people of Czech-Jewish descent Literary agents People educated at Summer Fields School {{England-bio-stub