Godfrey Webster obituary

My younger brother, Godfrey Webster, who has died aged 68 after suffering from a heart condition, was a respected civil engineer and a tireless worker for socialist causes in Birmingham.

He grew up in Wateringbury, Kent, the youngest of four children of Neil Webster, a civil servant with the Central Office of Information who had been a wartime Bletchley codebreaker, and his wife, Elizabeth, a writer and musician. Godfrey was keen on politics from his early teens, joining the Aldermaston marches and protests against the Vietnam war in London in the late 1960s.