Jack Heery obituary
My dad, Jack Heery, who has died aged 81, was a teacher and educationist who devoted much of his life to grassroots Labour party activism and the support of various social and political causes.Born in...
View ArticleTony Potter obituary
My father, Tony Potter, who has died aged 88, greatly enjoyed his working life as a scientist, but also had a hinterland as a church singer and as a supporter of charities for blind and partially...
View ArticlePat Finnon obituary
In 1997, my wife, Pat Finnon, who has died of cancer aged 63, began managing a small Newcastle charity, ASCA (Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse), leading a counselling service for people coming to...
View ArticleNeil Middleton obituary
Bold and imaginative publisher at Sheed and Ward, Penguin and Pluto Press who played a key role in the renewal of the Roman Catholic church in BritainAs managing editor of the publishers Sheed and...
View ArticleLetter: Norman Harris obituary
As a 12-year-old on the Isle of Mull in 1964, I read The Legend of Lovelock, the biography of the enigmatic New Zealand runner Jack Lovelock by Norman Harris. It led me to a 50-year fascination with...
View ArticleConrad Phillips obituary
Stage and screen actor best known for his role in the ITV series William TellOne of ITV’s first action heroes, notable for his expertise with a crossbow, was William Tell, played by Conrad Phillips,...
View ArticleDerek Sugden obituary
Structural engineer and acoustician who worked on the Snape Maltings concert hall and the new opera house at GlyndebourneWhen, in 1963, with Arup Associates, Ove Arup finally realised his idea for an...
View ArticleAgatha Sadler obituary
My friend Agatha Sadler, who has died aged 91, created one of the most influential art bookshops in London. St George’s Gallery Books was an institution, a resource for art historian, artist, art...
View ArticleHocine Aït Ahmed obituary
Campaigner for Algerian democracy and independenceHocine Aït Ahmed, who has died aged 89, was one of the key figures in Algeria’s fight for independence, and could conceivably have become president....
View ArticleAlan Rickman obituary
Versatile stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Harry Potter and Love ActuallyRelated: Alan Rickman: the most loyal, playful and generous of friends | Katharine...
View ArticleNeil Kinnock on Alan Rickman, ‘great company and a staunch comrade’
From Riverside Studios to Broadway, Glasgow Union theatre to Hollywood, Shakespeare to slapstick, Die Hard to Jane Austen and every conceivable point in between, Alan Rickman was a truly great...
View ArticleFranco Citti obituary
Actor known for his roles in the films of Pier Paolo PasoliniFranco Citti, who has died aged 90, made a memorable screen debut playing the title role of a pimp in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s first film,...
View ArticleRobert Banks Stewart obituary
Creator of Shoestring, Bergerac, Lovejoy and other popular television seriesRobert Banks Stewart, who has died at the age of 84, was a writer and producer whose knack for casting and determination to...
View ArticleDavid Hadden obituary
Our friend David Hadden, who has died from cancer aged 61, was an accomplished engineer specialising in blast damage to buildings. He was also an inquisitive, liberal-minded man, a music lover and...
View ArticleAndrew Dunsire obituary
My former colleague Andrew Dunsire, who has died aged 91, was one of the leading and most original British teachers and scholars of public administration. Arguably his most original work was a theory...
View ArticleDavid Dennis obituary
Our friend David Dennis, who has died aged 85, was chief technician from 1970 at the medical school at Guy’s hospital, London, working in the pathology department, which later became the department of...
View ArticleOlive Pollard obituary
My mother, Olive Pollard, who has died aged 94, was the first woman to be appointed a police constable in Nottinghamshire. She was also a sensitive, kind and wise mother.Olive was one of six children...
View ArticleDan Haggerty obituary
American actor who starred as the bushy-bearded, animal-loving woodsman in The Life and Times of Grizzly AdamsThe burly, bushy-bearded actor Dan Haggerty, who has died from cancer of the spine aged 73,...
View ArticleGeoffrey Hawthorn obituary
Social and political theorist who believed that the ambition to develop a ‘science of society’ was fundamentally flawed“The history of social theorising in western Europe and the United States since...
View ArticleLetter: Tania Rose obituary
Tania Rose, along with her friend Marna Glyn, who died in 2012, was a regular volunteer for Charter 88 throughout its heroic period from 1989 to the mid-1990s.Both were longtime, disciplined and...
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