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For a lawyer who specialised in the arcane area of law known as “state immunity”, Hazel Fox was a remarkably influential figure. Her chosen subject is…

When my mother, Jenny Cox, who has died aged 86 of cancer, was admitted to hospice care, she told staff of her passions: her grandchildren and…

In 1982 Eric Midwinter, who has died aged 93, co-founded the University of the Third Age (now u3a), with the social entrepreneur Michael Young and the…

My friend Maroushka Monro, who has died aged 78, was a writer, poet, counsellor and at one time an agony aunt.In the booming magazine world of…

My friend Michael Waldman, who has died aged 83, was a palaeontologist and an inspiring teacher of geology. He discovered one of the most productive and…

My husband, Michael Göpfert, who has died of cancer aged 77, was a consultant psychotherapist and child psychiatrist in Merseyside. In 1985 he set up a…

The serial entrepreneur Frank Strang, who has died aged 67 of oesophageal cancer, seized an unpremeditated opportunity to deliver the first licensed spaceport for vertical launches…

My mother, Alice Zeitlyn, who has died aged 100, was a charity volunteer for a huge range of causes in Cambridge, and the founder of the…

My friend Anne Merriman, who has died aged 90, was a pioneering doctor and founder of the Hospice Africa charity, which aims to offer “palliative care…

As a teenager, my mother, Moragh Bradshaw, who has died aged 87, asked her father what life was for. His answer, that it was to help…