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Lord Snowdon, the celebrity, society and documentary photographer who was as well known for his marriage and divorce to Princess Margaret, has died aged 86. Lord Snowdon would also have been aboard but for a late change of plan.And in 1983 he was temporarily blinded when an unidentified substance was squirted in his face by a group of four young men as he sat at traffic lights in a chauffeur-driven car.Shortly after his divorce, he set up the Earl of Snowdon Award Scheme to provide bursaries for disabled students, using £14,000 from fees he received for photographs of the royal family.In September 1980 he was appointed president for England of the International Year for Disabled People committee.He attacked a decision to bar disabled Falklands soldiers and sailors from the City of London 1983 victory parade, and criticised the Princess of Wales's father, Earl Spencer, for his failure to provide public wheelchair access at his Althorp home.In 1988, he hit out at British Rail for the conditions in which the disabled were forced to travel.At the second annual presentation of the Snowdon Award Scheme, Lord Snowdon attacked Butlin's holiday camps for refusing to allow guide dogs admission to their sites, and the Church of England for threatening to get rid of a 400-acre adventure playground for disabled children in the grounds of a rectory.His major interest in the disabled was revealed when he unveiled a prototype design for a motor-driven platform enabling handicapped people to move around in ordinary chairs.The Squirrel wheelchair, as it was called, eventually went into production in Birmingham in 1989.Although the idea never really took off, in 1988 he helped pioneer a revolutionary new hearing device called The Link, which aimed to make a human voice audible to the hard-of-hearing over other sounds in a crowded environment and was intended to be cheaper than existing devices.He went on to design aids for the blind as well, and he also continued with his photographic career.In 1983 Snowdon received nominations for the National Business Calendars Award and the Kodak Colour Calendar Awards for a tasteful black-and-white calendar, entitled Kindness, featuring portraits of hospital workers.He was the first to photograph the newest member of the Royal Family in October 1984 when he took pictures of the one-month-old second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, Prince Harry.As a photographer, Lord Snowdon was in great demand commercially and in 1985 he spearheaded a £500,000 autumn promotional campaign for London Weekend Television, taking black and white photographs of the company's stars which were then used in a sequence of silent advertisements.Lord Snowdon sparked controversy when he conducted an interview with Design Council chairman Simon Hornby for Snowdon was later forced to resign as consultant to the Council, a position he had held for 26 years.In 1987 he became the UK patron of Rotary International's worldwide campaign against polio.On good terms with his ex-wife, he took the official photographs of her and their two children on the eve of her tour of China in 1987, and nursed her back to health as she recovered from a lung operation in 1985.At the age of 59, Lord Snowdon underwent a successful abdominal operation at the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London.And at an age when most men are thinking about retirement, he changed jobs, moving from his position as designer and photographer at Lord Snowdon was continually facing new challenges in his determination to gain equal rights for the disabled.In 1993 he took on the voluntary position of chairman of the Arts Council's initiative to increase the employment of disabled people in the arts.Two years later, he became the first honorary president of the charitable trust ADAPT – Access for Disabled People to Arts Premises Today.On 8 October 1993, his son Viscount Linley married the Honourable Serena Stanhope, in front of the Queen and other members of the Royal Family at Westminster Abbey.Seven months later, his daughter Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones announced her engagement to her long-time boyfriend, artist Daniel Chatto.Their marriage followed a year later and gave Snowdon his first grandchild in 1996.Earlier, in 1994, Lord Snowdon had again courted controversy when he emerged as the key figure in a campaign to sack his parish vicar, who did not believe in God.Despite walking with an increasingly pronounced limp, forcing him to use a stick, Lord Snowdon continued his career as a professional photographer.In 1995, he produced photographs for a 56-page celebration of British theatre for an edition of Also in 1995 he succeeded the Earl of Gowrie as Provost of the Royal College of Art in London.In 1999, he accepted a seat in the reformed House of Lords, becoming one of 10 hereditaries to be given life peerages. The couple had two children, Viscount David Linley in 1961, and Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones in 1964.They separated in 1976, and at the time Buckingham Palace announced they had "mutually agreed to live apart", adding that there were "no plans for divorce proceedings”.They officially divorced two years later, earning her negative publicity. "And it’s a career that only Vogue could shape.
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