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 Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:30:52 GMT Newspapers 144 21 http://www.timesonline.co.uk http://images.thetimes.co.uk/TGD/picture/0,,116979,00.gif Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:52:15 GMT 2009-11-05T05:52:16Z Michael Rosen writes: As your obituary (Nov 4) made clear, Barry Brown did indeed teach me at Harrow Weald County Grammar School in 1957-58. Suburban grammar schools of that time could be bland places, and to look back at the moment Barry arrived, it’s clear to me now that he was beckoning in the Sixties. He was, after all, outrageous enough to wear suede shoes and talk with a Manchester accent. Even his walk — when he moved down a corridor, his feet, legs and arms moved in ways you only saw outside the Granada cinema on a Saturday night. In some strange role-reversal way, he was a teacher who appeared to be insolent. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:38:24 GMT 2009-11-06T05:38:24Z A leading figure of the largely overlooked Nashville blues scene, Johnny Jones was an outstanding guitarist who helped to launch the musical career of Jimi Hendrix. And it was with a Hendrix tune, Purple Haze, that Jones first attracted attention in the UK. He was born in 1936 in the small Tennessee town of Edes to a musical family. His father sang in local gospel groups, and his grandmother had a Victrola wind-up gramophone on which he would hear 78s by Blind Lemon Jefferson and Peetie Wheatstraw. He visited Memphis at 13 and saw the famous one-man blues band Joe Hill Louis, playing in Beale Street. His parents separated when he still at home and he moved with his mother to Chicago in 1951. He was immediately attracted to the blues scene and would hang around the 708 Club, where he saw Muddy Waters, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf perform. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:37:10 GMT 2009-11-05T05:47:01Z One of the first group of Indian officers who were seconded to the Royal Air Force in 1940, Ranjan Dutt was sent to England later that year and after further training became one of three Indian pilots to be posted to 32 Squadron. In 1941 he flew fighter sweeps over occupied France and the Netherlands, one of the few Indian pilots to serve in the European theatre during the Second World War, before returning to India via RAF service in the Middle East. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:34:10 GMT 2009-11-06T05:35:36Z In the mid-1950s street photography was generally a documentarian’s medium, useful in the service of social change. Yet Roy DeCarava was as preoccupied with light and shade as with his insider’s view of a down-at-heel, largely African-American New York neighbourhood. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:33:40 GMT 2009-11-05T05:46:53Z Denys Tucker was a brilliant if maverick zoologist and principal scientific officer at the British Museum (Natural History) — at the Natural History Museum in South Kensington — for 11 years until June 1960 when he was summarily dismissed for “long, continued, vexatious, insubordinate and generally offensive conduct towards the museum’s director and other senior staff”. He was 39. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:32:39 GMT 2009-11-06T05:32:39Z Ruth Duckworth was one of the most innovative and influential postwar potters in Britain, before transforming herself in America from a ground-breaking studio potter to an important sculptor in clay. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:27:32 GMT 2009-11-05T05:46:41Z Like so many women artists of her generation, Nancy Spero was overlooked for too long. During the early part of her long and defiantly uninhibited career the male-dominated art world preferred to ignore Spero’s achievements. But she never felt disheartened by this neglect. On the contrary: her finest work always sprang from a stubborn, angry refusal to be defeated. The female figures who energise her art are fuelled by a militant dynamism as they run, fly and fight through a succession of dramatic encounters. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:59:52 GMT 2009-11-04T07:00:17Z Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny, actor, scriptwriter and director, was born on October 16, 1947. He died of cancer on September 27, 2009, aged 61 Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:39:06 GMT 2009-11-04T06:39:07Z Rodney Sturdee was a midshipman in the heavy cruiser Exeter during the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939, which resulted in the destruction of the German warship Admiral Graf Spee, a timely tonic early in the Second World War during a depressing period of mixed disaster and inactivity. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:35:15 GMT 2009-11-05T05:47:52Z The mathematician Shaun Wylie was one of the leading members of the Bletchley Park code-breaking team of the Second World War as well as one of its last survivors. Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:30:37 GMT 2009-11-04T06:32:39Z Charlie Jordan Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:29:11 GMT 2009-11-05T03:43:29Z Sir Donald Logan was a familiar figure in diplomatic circles, having served as Ambassador to Bulgaria in the early 1970s before ending his diplomatic service career as the leader of delegations to two long conferences, concerning the law of the sea and the protection of Antarctica. He then went on to direct the Great Britain/East Europe Centre for seven useful years. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:39:16 GMT 2009-11-03T10:58:57Z Claude Lévi-Strauss was the last French intellectual giant. He was one of the greatest social anthropologists of the age, and his reputation spread well beyond the confines of his discipline as the most distinguished post-war exponent of structuralism, a mode of analysis which, in its more loosely defined forms, was a dominant force in the human sciences from the 1950s through to the 1970s and 1980s. Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:06:26 GMT 2009-11-03T06:45:05Z Barry Brown was a persuasive actors' agent who used his expressive personality and sense of humour to further the interests of such clients as Sue Nicholls — better known as Audrey Roberts in Coronation Street — and Stephen Tompkinson, who played the bashful priest in Ballykissangel. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:49:57 GMT 2009-11-02T06:49:58Z Richard Brinson was involved in Florida State University’s Flying High Circus project for 43 years, and for 34 years as its director. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he joined the Flying High Circus as a freshman in 1964 and was still with it until his retirement in 2007, longer than the time spanned by its three previous directors — Jack Haskin, Ad Gilbert and Adrian Catarzi (a triple-somersault trapeze expert) — put together. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:34:29 GMT 2009-11-02T07:25:43Z Frith Finlayson was one of the pioneers of ski instruction in the Scottish Highlands. He became a leading and highly influential figure in his field, bringing ski lifts into Glencoe, helping to found the British Association of Ski Instructors and running his own school in Aviemore. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:23:51 GMT 2009-11-02T07:27:10Z Few prisoners survived a Nazi concentration camp; Ernest Levy survived not just one camp but seven, and was to become one of Scotland’s most respected and much loved religious leaders. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:22:07 GMT 2009-11-02T07:24:52Z The thriller writer Lionel Davidson was often mentioned in the same breath as Frederick Forsyth, both sharing the same love of in-depth technical and scenic detail. But his plots, in contrast to Forsyth’s, are much less violent, much more gnomic. Humour and love interest were salient features. The interaction of personalities was complex, yielding unexpected twists and turns in far-flung settings as a test of the reader’s wits. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:18:01 GMT 2009-11-02T06:19:51Z Dietrich von Bothmer Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:16:31 GMT 2009-11-02T07:26:36Z Christopher Collins was an internationally acclaimed expert on tuberculosis bacteriology and on the prevention of laboratory-acquired infections. He made significant contributions to the laboratory study of tuberculosis and, together with his colleagues Malcolm Yates and John Grange, developed a series of tests for distinguishing between different types of the bacillus causing this disease — tests that were subsequently advocated by the World Health Organisation.