Anne Fremantle,

93, a British-born author, art critic, essayist and editor whose conversion to Roman Catholicism drew her to themes of faith and the saints, died Thursday in London. She had returned to Britain several years ago after nearly 50 years in Manhattan.

Mrs. Fremantle was known in the United States and in Britain as a writer and teacher as well as a scholar and Catholic convert. Her faith was reflected in both her writings and in the many books that she edited.

Her own books included The Medieval Philosophers (1955), The Protestant Mystics (1964) and The Age of Faith (1965). Among the books she edited were Mothers: A Catholic Treasury of Great Stories (1951), The Papal Encyclicals in Their Historical Context (1956) and The Social Teachings of the Church (1963).

In World War II she became a volunteer ambulance driver and broadcast in French and German on the BBC. She settled in the United States in 1942, working in the British Embassy before she moved to New York and became a U.S. citizen in 1947. She worked in the communications department of Fordham University, was an editor at the United Nations, a writer-editor at Commonweal and a book reviewer for a number of publications.

Margaret Taylor Hancock,

90, whose upbringing in a multiracial home was chronicled in a book by her daughter, died Tuesday in Branford, Conn. Mrs. Hancock, who was born in Washington, grew up black while her siblings, from whom she was separated at age 4, grew up white. In 1992, after 76 years apart, Mrs. Hancock reunited with a sister.

These experiences were brought to life by the 1994 book, The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White, written by Mrs. Hancock's daughter, Shirlee Taylor Haizlip. The memoir describes how Mrs. Hancock's great-grandmother came from Ireland and married a slave of mixed race ancestry. The family later split into separate white and black branches.

Mrs. Hancock went on to become a co-founder of the Ansonia, Conn., branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and became active in Connecticut's foster care system.

James "Fred" Buck,

72, a General Electric engineer who evaluated light systems for major league ballparks, died Wednesday of pancreatic cancer in Cleveland. Mr. Buck's job with GE was to make sure players could see well during night games but not lose the flight of the ball in the lights. After retiring in 1987, he continued to work with the major leagues.

He began evaluating and recommending the proper lighting in major league baseball parks in 1962 at the request of American League representatives.