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The British Council: Eight decades developing links between UK and Spain
Tony Bryant
...can realise their full potential and play an active role in cohesive and inclusive communities. Developing links Eighty years after he founded the British Council in Madrid, Walter Starkie is still remembered and respected for his tireless work in ... developing special links between Spain and the UK. He went on to open branches of the British Council in Barcelona, Bilbao, Seville and Valencia. He retired in 1954, but continued to live in Madrid with his family until his death in 1976. Starkie and