Simon Sedgwick-Jell obituary

Simon Sedgwick-Jell, who has died suddenly aged 64, was a colourful figure familiar to residents of Cambridge, where for three decades he was prominent in the city’s political scene.

The son of Elizabeth (nee Pritchard) and Francis, a diplomat, Simon was born in Ethiopia and educated at Stonyhurst college in Lancashire, before studies at Balliol and St Peter’s College, Oxford. He became an academic historian, lecturing first at Leicester University, before arriving in Cambridge to work at what is now Anglia Ruskin University.