Browsing: obituary

My uncle Howel Jones, who has died aged 96, was a teacher dedicated to the Methodist church, the application of his faith to local government and…

My sister Maureen McGinley, who has died aged 77, was a member of the Order of Columban Sisters, a progressive Irish Catholic order whose nuns train…

The otherwise “ordinary” life of Helen Newlove, Lady Newlove, who has died after a short illness aged 63, was turned into something first of all extraordinary…

My father, Dick Harris, who has died aged 71, spent a lifetime working and volunteering in the disability sector, using his own experiences to encourage independent…

It is still shocking to recall that until the UK’s first Race Relations Act was passed in 1965, people could perfectly lawfully be refused accommodation or…

My wife, Marianne Rigge, who has died aged 77, was a passionate public advocate for the interests of NHS patients, and a pioneer in creating ways…

Lady Annabel Goldsmith did not mind having the most famous celebrity nightspot in London named after her: “A person might have a rose named after them,…

My father, John Deere, who has died aged 89, was the arts director of Nottingham county council for 20 years. A passionate advocate for the arts,…

Darleane Hoffman’s research into superheavy radioactive elements at the University of California’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and, prior to that, at Los Alamos National Laboratory…

Chen-Ning Yang, the Chinese American theoretical physicist, who has died aged 103, won the Nobel prize in physics in 1957.It was during a period at the…