Browsing: obituary

My friend Judy Robinson, who has died suddenly aged 73 after a brain haemorrhage, was a powerful advocate for the voluntary sector and its contribution to…

Sir Francis Graham-Smith, who has died aged 102, was the last of the generation that created modern radio astronomy, the branch of astronomy that studies the…

My wife, Kathleen Rigby, who has died aged 81, put her love of justice, writing, history and the arts to public good throughout her life. She…

My father, Arthur Callaghan, who has died aged 93, was a biology lecturer at Staffordshire University and passionately committed to “blue sky” research: scientific endeavour for…

Science and politics can make awkward bedfellows, with the very question of whether it is possible to make purely objective observations about the world drawing forth…

If you had a cardiac arrest before the 1970s, an ambulance might arrive quickly, but almost all its crew could do was transport you to hospital,…

David Lipsey, who has died aged 77, was a significant and influential Labour party adviser, a political journalist and then a member of the House of…

My friend Trevor Hendy, who has died aged 89, was director of development at United Kingdom Housing Trust (UKHT) in the 1980s, a period in which,…

My mother, Sally Adams, who has died aged 73, worked for many years at Papworth hospital in Cambridge, where she was a sister in the intensive…

As the leading prosecutor in many notorious terrorist trials, Ronald Appleton’s list of cases from the savage years of Northern Ireland’s Troubles ensured he developed unparalleled…