Browsing: obituary

My friend Giles Peaker, who has died suddenly aged 60, was a housing lawyer whose work had a lasting and positive impact on the lives of…

My friend Joseph Ana, who has died aged 73, spent the best part of two decades in the UK working for the NHS as a urologist…

My friend Alister Prince, who has died of cancer aged 77, spent his career in child safeguarding and protection in London, becoming a team manager in…

My wife, Rachel Downey, was a health and social affairs journalist who went on to become a communications strategist at the Department of Health. There she…

Tony Clarke was the least stuffy of men. We were neighbours in the delightfully named hamlet of Stone-cum-Ebony, in Kent, and often spoke when putting the…

My friend Pip Salvador-Jones, who has died aged 61 of gall-bladder cancer, was director of Citizens Advice in the London borough of Barking and Dagenham, one…

G Robert Blakey, who has died aged 90, was one of America’s leading legal scholars, and his speciality was organised crime. He is best remembered for…

The lawyer and elections expert Reg Austin, who has died aged 91, played a key role in the transition to democracy in countries such as Cambodia,…

If Orson Welles’s 1941 film Citizen Kane had been made as a TV movie 60 years later, its Kane would have been Ted Turner. Thanks to…

In 1968, when Ann Barrett qualified in medicine, the fast-changing specialty of oncology was a magnet for young doctors as new drugs and technology were beginning…