Richard Todd actor also narrated at least one TV documentary about the Dambusters and contributed forewords to many books on the subject, including "The Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2003), "Filming the Dam Busters" by Jonathan Falconer (2005) and most recently "Bouncing-Bomb Man: The Science of Sir Barnes Wallis" by Iain Murray (2009). Todd died at his home near Grantham, Lincolnshire on 3 December 2009. His body was buried between his two sons Seamus and Peter at St. Guthlac's Church in Little Ponton, in the county of Lincolnshire. The gravestone's epitaph reads – "Richard Andrew Palethorpe Todd, 1919–2009, husband of Virginia and
Isaac Parsons (Virginia politician) Virginia General Assembly to serve as a trustee of the town of Romney. Parsons served as a trustee alongside Isaac Miller, Andrew Wodrow, Stephen Colvin, Jonathan Purcell, Nicholas Casey, William McGuire, Perez Drew and James Murphy. Parsons and his fellow trustees were given authority by the Virginia General Assembly to settle disputes regarding the town's land lots and to "open and clear" the town's "streets and lanes" in accordance with the original survey and plan for Romney. In 1790, Parsons was either elected or appointed as a justice for Hampshire County alongside Jonathan Purcell, James Martin, Cornelius Ferrel, Edward McCarty,