Obituaries from Times Online en-uk Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:37:29 GMT Copyright 2007 Times Newspapers Ltd. custserv@timesonline.co.uk http://www.timesonline.co.uk Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:46:27 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Sun, 02 Aug 2009 17:47:50 GMT 2009-07-01T06:00:31Z Mel Webb could proudly claim that he had written about more than two dozen sports for The Times during an association with the paper that covered a similar number of years. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:38:56 GMT 2009-07-13T06:38:57Z Anne Boutwood was the distinguished consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist who helped to lead the campaign to fight to save the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (EGA) Hospital, London, in the mid-1970s. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:37:06 GMT 2009-07-13T06:37:08Z More positive about Europe than many Tory politicians of his generation, Lord Kingsland was the MEP for Shropshire and Stafford from 1979 to 1994 and led the British contingent of Conservative MEPs during the second half of his tenure. After losing his seat in the European Parliament he was elevated to the House of Lords and, in 1997, became Shadow Lord Chancellor. In 2008 he became the opposition spokesman on legal affairs, a post he held at his death. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:34:55 GMT 2009-07-13T06:34:57Z Derek Linstrum was an architect, an architectural historian, a conservationist and an educator. He lived in Leeds all his life, for the greater part in the large house in Roundhay where he amassed his extraordinary and ever-growing collection of books on architectural history. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:26:49 GMT 2009-07-13T06:26:50Z At a perilously low point in the war for Britain — January 1942 — Peter Lake was the vice-consul on the Spanish island of Fernando Pó (now Bioko) in the Gulf of Guinea, when an opportunity for a positive publicity coup came his way. He was already working with the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and saw his chance when the 7,000-ton Italian liner Duchessa d’Aosta unexpectedly put into the island’s harbour accompanied by a German tug and lighter. Being Axis-owned, the vessels were legitimate targets, but Spain’s neutrality was a sensitive issue, not least as the British Ministry of Economic Warfare was seeking ways to restrict supplies of Spanish wolfram to German factories. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:11:09 GMT 2009-07-13T06:27:11Z Alexander Bearn, a physician and research scientist, was a pioneer in the study of human genetics. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:45:56 GMT 2009-07-13T04:45:57Z Professor Türkan Saylan was one of Turkey’s most distinguished medical academics who did much to help eradicate leprosy as a serious medical problem in her country. She also worked tirelessly to help Turkish girls gain access to secondary school and university education. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:40:00 GMT 2009-07-13T04:40:00Z Douglas Hume was the last of four generations of his family to run the Glasgow-based engineering firm James Howden & Co., which specialised in air and gas handling. Hume was managing director from 1964 to 1987 and appointed chairman in 1988. The firm celebrated its 150th anniversary in 2004. Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:38:24 GMT 2009-07-13T04:38:25Z Kosuke Koyama was an ecumenical theologian who sought common ground between his own Christian faith and other creeds, in particular Asian religions such as Buddhism. Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:32:42 GMT 2009-07-13T06:32:43Z Robert McNamara Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:37:37 GMT 2009-07-13T10:27:44Z Donald MacCormick was one of the first Scottish accents to be heard in mainstream political broadcasting on televison and was an inspiration to a generation of Scottish TV journalists including Kirsty Young. MacCormick made regular appearances on BBC news and current affairs programmes from the mid-1970s and was perhaps best known as the anchor of Newsnight in the 1980s. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:24:48 GMT 2009-07-12T05:49:27Z It is sometimes said that you tell a smart boxer by just looking at his face. A clever boxer does not look like a boxer at all. Arturo Gatti wore the marks of his profession all over his face. But then few ever referred to Gatti as a smart boxer. He was a throwback, a brawler, a warrior. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:23:37 GMT 2009-07-12T05:36:07Z As MP for Heston and Isleworth from 1950 to 1970, Richard Reader Harris was an articulate Conservative backbencher with great personal charm. But the manner in which he forfeited his seat at Westminster, and the business dealings and concomitant and colourfully reported social life that led up to that event, gained him far more column inches in the national press than his career in Parliament ever did. Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:22:01 GMT 2009-07-13T11:00:03Z H. T. Cadbury-Brown was instrumental in establishing the modernist architecture movement, of Le Corbusier, Lutbetkin and others, in Britain in the late 1930s. He was at the vanguard of the movement in Britain as one of the designers of the “New Architecture” exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries in London in 1938. The show, organised by the Modern Architectural Research Group, did much to promote the modernist movement — with its clean lines, shorn of ornamentation, and rationalist principles — that would go on to flourish in Britain after the Second World War. Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:35:48 GMT 2009-07-13T03:42:17Z Dawick Haig, as he was known from his courtesy title in early schooldays, was thrust under the spotlight aged 10 when his father, the Field Marshal and commander of the British Army in France from 1915, died in 1928. Given the public scrutiny to which he was subjected, it is possible that he might never have discovered his own resources had he not endured the isolation and privations of a prisoner of war. It was during that time that he turned to painting for fulfilment and, rightly, he would wish to be remembered as a painter rather than as a soldier. Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:21:01 GMT 2009-07-10T05:21:01Z Modern sport does not tend to splash sobriquets around but, 60 years on, when a Welshman referred to the “Prince of Centres” he would invariably be thinking of Bleddyn Williams. He played rugby union for Cardiff, Wales and the Lions with natural intelligence and the gifts of speed and strength, to which he added tricks of the game that placed him in a class of his own in the northern hemisphere. Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:35:44 GMT 2009-07-10T05:10:42Z Tom Keylock played a crucial part in the turbulent 1960s history of the Rolling Stones. Initially employed as a chauffeur, he swiftly became indispensable as the band’s most trusted all-round “fixer”. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:16:25 GMT 2009-07-09T06:16:26Z Una Hamilton Wright was the proud torch-bearer of her Uncle Charlie’s literary legacy. He was Charles Hamilton, best known as “Frank Richards”, the hugely prolific creator of Billy Bunter. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:14:24 GMT 2009-07-10T11:59:37Z “She has no idea how good she is” — thus said C. H. Rolph, overheard by Naomi Lewis (the subject of his comment) at a drinks party some time in the 1940s, probably hosted by the New Statesman & Nation. It was an unusual goodness though to be found in the hothouse of journalistic rivalries, and if Lewis was unaware of it then that was surely because it was from the start unforced, a second nature. Indeed, it manifested itself as such throughout her long life in a succession of modest but perfectly articulated acts of writing, inimical to displays of literary celebrity. Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:09:18 GMT 2009-07-09T06:09:25Z The German surrender in Europe in May 1945 brought little immediate change to the situation in South-East Asia. US forces under General Douglas MacArthur had liberated almost all the islands of the Philippines in February, and the British under General William Slim were to complete defeat of the Japanese Army in Burma in August, but the enemy still held Malaya, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. The northern and western coasts of the huge island of New Guinea also remained in Japanese hands, although the Australians had steadfastly retained control of Port Moresby in the southeast. Complete control of the island lying across air and sea communications to Northern Australia was a logical next step.