Browsing: obituary

A chapter in Andy Whitelaw’s memoir is called “Brainwashing (literally)”. Flushing out blood clots from a newborn’s brain to prevent damage was just one technique evolved…

My father, Alexander Wishart, who has died aged 81, began at the foot of the banking ladder aged 16, eventually becoming general manager and director of…

For many years Geoffrey Bindman was a keen participant in a Black, Asian and Jewish breakfast group that met in Chalk Farm, north-west London. Across a…

John Stanley, who has died aged 83, was one of the longest-serving postwar MPs, representing the Kent commuter belt constituency of Tonbridge and Malling for 41…

My partner, Sarah Burton, who has died of cancer of the appendix aged 73, was a formidable legal and environmental activist. She held senior roles at…

It all began over a bottle of claret in a City wine bar in the early 2000s. Roger Warren Evans, a social entrepreneur and barrister, was…

The British scientist Iain Douglas-Hamilton, who has died aged 83, became the world’s leading authority on the behaviour of African elephants and played a vital part…

My husband, Roy Darke, who has died aged 85, was a town planning lecturer and Labour councillor in Sheffield and later in Oxford. He championed ordinary…

In 1979, the British Medical Journal published an article by a Kent GP, John Stuart Brown, titled “Minor operations in general practice”.Brown, who has died aged…

My friend Stephen Dawson, who has died of cancer aged 78, had the questionable luck of being a newly minted urologist when Aids first struck in…