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Obituaries

Professor Ann Lambton

Ann Lambton

Scholar of all things Persian who played a single-minded part in Iran’s turbulent history and incurred the Shah’s displeasure

James Orr

James Orr

Discreet police officer who for a dozen years fulfilled the challenging role of private secretary to the Duke of Edinburgh

Artie Traum

Artie Traum

Versatile folk musician and composer who performed with Pete Seeger and Bob Dylan, often in tandem with his brother Happy

Professor Alastair Bissett-Johnson

Teacher, assistant editor of Dalhousie Law Journal and adviser to the Canadian government on family law reforms

The Very Rev George Noakes

The Right Rev George Noakes

Quiet and unobtrusive parish priest who became a conscientious and caring Archbishop of Wales

Roderick MacLean

Roderick MacLean

Civil servant who oversaw the postwar evacuation of the Cocos islanders

G.M. Banatwala

Indian politician who strove to champion the Muslim minority without inflaming Hindu hardliners

Kenneth Churchill

British Council representative determined to bridge the cultural divide

Lord Stokes

Gifted industrial salesman who had the intractable task of trying to create a workable company to run Britain’s car industry

Ron Spinney

Hammerson chief who transformed the company and was a modernising force within the industry

Ian Woolf

Wartime Special Operations Executive officer who in peacetime became the dynamic head of British Forces Broadcasting

Kenneth Churchill

British Council representative determined to bridge the cultural divide

Lives remembered. Add your personal recollections to recently published Times obituaries

Squadron Leader Frank Day

Spitfire pilot who was shot down over Crete and became a prisoner in Stalag Luft III

Babs Edwards

Wartime Wren boarding officer who helped to rescue seabirds after the 1967 Torrey Canyon oil spill

Les Crane

Controversial talk show host who later earned a fortune from making computer software

Jo Stafford

Jo Stafford

Beguiling and versatile jazz singer who topped the charts with a stream of exhilarating anthems and comic cover versions

Ed Arno

Ed Arno

Cartoonist whose first-class draughtsmanship and economical humour enhanced The New Yorker’s well-known single-panel slots

Fred Yates

Artist with a love of colour and pageantry who painted for the man in the street and was likened to, but not confused with, Lowry

Bruce Conner

Iconoclastic artist who defied categorisation and with his short film Breakaway inadvertently anticipated the pop video

Lives in brief. Other recent obituaries which have been published in The Times

Bryan Cowgill

BBC sports boss who introduced the action replay and then proved himself a master of the ratings wars at BBC1 and then at ITV

Elizabeth Bartlett

Much esteemed self-taught poet whose work dwelt on her observations of humanity during her decades working in the NHS

Lord Hunt of Tanworth

Discreet Secretary of the Cabinet who was thrust into the limelight over the Crossman Diaries affair

Mario Rigoni Stern

Reclusive Italian writer best known for his account of the harrowing winter retreat of the Italian 8th Army from Russia

Janwillem van de Wetering

Police thriller writer who wrote his bestsellers in Dutch and English

Thomas Disch

Science-fiction writer who achieved fame with The Brave Little Toaster

Hugh Lloyd

Mild-mannered actor who used his lugubrious face to comic effect in films, plays and a long-running TV series with Terry Scott

Roger Landes

Leader of SOE circuit in German-occupied France, where he helped the French Resistance both before and after D-Day

Jonathan Frankel

Professor Jonathan Frankel

Historian of Russia and modern Jewry whose ability to read in half a dozen languages gave his work massive authority

Bobby Durham

Sought-after drummer who worked with the greatest names in jazz and contributed a prodding urgency to Oscar Peterson’s trio