Sue Phipps obituary

My mother, Sue, who has died aged 84, was the agent, manager and confidante for the composer Benjamin Britten and the tenor Peter Pears, and was at the heart of one of the most creative periods of English music.The daughter of Marjorie and Arthur Pears, a naval officer, Sue was born in West Malling, Kent, but grew up in Kenya. During the war, Marjorie was in charge of a camp of Italian prisoners of war near Mombasa, but Arthur was captured by the Japanese at the fall of Singapore in 1942 and the