MC Lemon obituary

My father, MC Lemon, known to his friends as Mick, who has died of lung cancer aged 69, was an author and scholar whose academic specialism was the history of political thought and political theory. As a lecturer at the University of Ulster, Derry, from 1971 until 2004, he enjoyed teaching students from all walks of life the “big ideas” of history and philosophy.

He was an advocate of a narrative approach to history and throughout his lifetime passionately enjoyed arguing philosophical theory or simply discussing ideas with his students, as well as with his three children.