Stan Bootle obituary

My friend Stan Bootle, who has died aged 84, was really three people in one he was also known as Stan Kelly and Stan Kelly-Bootle.

Stan, the son of a plumber, was a star pupil at Liverpool Institute who, after doing national service in the army, went to Downing College, Cambridge, completing a science and mathematics degree and then one of the first graduate diplomas in computer sciences in 1954.