Elsbeth Juda obituary
Stylish and inventive photographer whose commercial and fashion work chronicled Britain's emerging postwar economyElsbeth Juda, who has died aged 103, spent 45 years as a photographer, creating work...
View ArticleAlex Forbes obituary
Scottish footballer who played for his country and made 240 appearances for ArsenalThe powerful, hard-tackling Scottish international wing-half Alex Forbes, who has died aged 89, first came to...
View ArticleNorman Cornish obituary
Pit painter with an acute eye and warmth of feeling for the realities of colliery lifeNorman Cornish, who has died aged 94, was the most famous of the numerous group of pit painters. Sid Chaplin, the...
View ArticleKen Fuller obituary
My friend Ken Fuller, who has died of a brain tumour aged 62, was a senior educational psychologist. He began his career as a teacher in the 1970s working with children in Essex deemed...
View ArticleJames Brady obituary
White House press secretary disabled in an attack on President Ronald Reagan who campaigned to prevent gun violenceJames Brady, who has died aged 73, was the principal victim of John Hinckley's attempt...
View ArticleDick Smith obituary
Professional makeup artist who turned Hollywood idols into misshapen grotesquesDick Smith, who has died aged 92, was not the sort of makeup artist to be found alongside personal chefs and chakra...
View ArticleLetters: Sir Peter Hall was ahead of his time over cycling in the capital
Peter Crookston writes: A New Society article by Sir Peter Hall emboldened me to enlist his help on a cycle lane scheme. Hardly any Londoners cycled to work in the late 1970s when I pedalled along the...
View ArticleHolly Davies obituary
My friend Holly Davies, who has died of cancer aged 39, had only half the life that most of us hope for, but managed to achieve twice as much as many of us ever will. In the last year alone she met the...
View ArticleMick Crosfield obituary
My brother-in-law, Mick Crosfield, who has died aged 94, was a film-maker (in three continents), a shopkeeper (in London) and, throughout his widely varied life, a man of great practical engineering...
View ArticleBill Paterson on Kenny Ireland: 'He adored being the fixer who brought people...
I met Kenny Ireland 56 years ago, around the time his Great Aunt Bill (sic) took him aside and told him: "There's more to life than Paisley, Kenneth." He was to prove her right.Today, I would be a...
View ArticleNeil Cleminson obituary
Our friend and colleague Neil Cleminson (Clem), who has died aged 73, had a lifelong passion for the natural world that informed his work for television. His fascination with nature began in Teesdale,...
View ArticleLetter: Rhea Martin was a formidable operator
Rhea Martin was a formidable operator. I worked for the University of Hertfordshire as Rhea's career was coming to its close and recall her, by then retired and a visiting professor, as a very...
View ArticleDavid Holgate obituary
What finer legacy could any artist wish for than that their work should, in the normal order of things, survive them by hundreds of years? In his statues of St Julian and St Benedict on the west side...
View ArticleInge Trott obituary
The redoubtable Inge Trott, who has died aged 94, arrived in Britain in December 1938 as Inge Kompfner, a young Jewish refugee from Nazi-controlled Austria, and went on to devote much of her life to...
View ArticleChapman Pincher obituary
Journalist and author famed for exposing spies at the heart of the establishmentThe journalist Chapman Pincher, who has died aged 100, became famous for his pursuit of traitors and supposed traitors in...
View ArticleSylvia Cox obituary
My wife, Sylvia Cox, who has died of a brain tumour aged 66, was a pioneering figure in the development of person-centred approaches to the care of people with dementia and other complex needs. She was...
View ArticleMartin Hammond obituary
My partner, Martin Hammond, who has died of motor neurone disease aged 57, was one of a generation of aspiring scientists in the world of genetic research. He was also a man who held on to his...
View ArticleRobert Drew obituary
Film and television director whose 'direct cinema' transformed documentary makingIn the early 1960s, a group of young American film-makers, led by Robert Drew, who has died aged 90, began making a...
View ArticleRichard Coward obituary
My husband, Richard Coward, started out as a fashion photographer working in black and white, but by the time of his death at 68, after a short illness, he had added printmaking, abstract painting,...
View ArticleOrla Gough obituary
From 1997 until her death, from cancer at the age of 60, my friend Orla Gough was head of the department of accounting, finance and governance at Westminster Business School, London. Under her dynamic...
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