After taking early retirement in the mid 'Eighties, she moved with my Father to the Isle of Wight in 1986. Mrs. Wilkinson is an FCA and has a BA Honours degree in French with Italian from the University of London. Chris graduated from the University of Nottingham July 2000 with a BA Honours Degree in Politics. In 1998 he was invited to join the board of the Union for Reformed Judaism, a pan-USA organisation and he served on this until his passing. Bob, with the benefit of hindsight, was always going to be an inorganic chemist; his grasp of the subject was impressive. Following graduation he returned to the North East where he taught chemistry before moving to a career post in academia at Sunderland, where he completed his PhD, later moving into the NHS, to build a Quality Control function. He began as Assistant Lecturer and later went on to become Senior Lecturer and then Reader, with a year as Acting Head of the Physical Chemistry Department. He was an accomplished artist, with many pen and ink drawings and oil paintings of places he visited, a dedicated father to his two sons Francis and Richard, and a doting grandfather to his eleven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. In 1997 he was Head of Slavonic Languages at the Defence Special Signals School before resigning from Ministry of Defence in 2001 to become a full time free lance translator to business of legal, financial and technical papers. They had three children, Anielka, who graduated in Botany, mother to three granddaughters, Eliza, Ellen and Alice; James, who graduated in Electrical Engineering, a hedge fund manager and father to grandson William and granddaughter Georgia; and Halina, who graduated in Philosophy and Theology, a director of ecommerce. David William Petchey, Physics - 10 June 2013, Eileen Savage (ne Marsden), Geography - 14 November 2013, Daniel (Matt) Taub, Electrical Engineering 19 December 2021. Always known as Peter, whilst a medical student (qualified Bristol 1956) he learnt to fly with the Bristol University Air Squadron developing a lifelong interest in aviation medicine. He became a director of Newtech Limited where he continued to design and make specialised equipment both for teaching purposes and also for industrial applications. A celebration of his life may be planned for a later date.Arrangements entrusted to Cremation London and Middlesex, (519) 858-2467. I had done some programming in Algol at university and realised that it was possible to program a generic spreadsheet for payback and TARR calculations that only required a small amount of data to be entered. Biography. Rosemary died in June 2004, and following her death, and despite looming health problems, Ian decided to go and live in the Aveyron region of France, an area that he and Rosemary had found especially attractive. Since January 2020, she has served as the Programme Lead of the University-led Forum for Global Challenges. Robbie Curtis passed away on 17 August 2020. Obituary kindly supplied by Leigh Simpson, William John Symes, Civil Engineering - 14 July 2013, Norman Thompson, Civil Engineering - 2012, Dr Raymond Thompson CBE, Chemistry - 23 March 2018, Geoffrey Walmsley, Electrical Engineering - February 2010, Rachel White (ne Pumphrey), Botany and Zoology - 11 November 2012, Stuart Whitton, Agriculture/Horticulture - 2005, Peter Wingham, Engineering - 7 March 2011, Geoffrey Yarlott, Grouped Subjects - 25 November 2009, Philip Bell, Chemistry/Geology - 13 April 2002, Margaret Bloumfield, Chemistry - April 2014, Terence Blumfield, Chemistry - 9 May 2011, David Montgomery Clifford, Industrial Administration - 15 April 2013, Gwendolen Dale (ne Heselton), Physics/Mathematics - 26 January 2009, Richard Dewing, Agriculture - 21 October 2020, Cedric Fermidge, Chemistry - 19 January 2007, Doreen (Alfreda) Ford (ne Page), Latin - 1 October 2006, Dr (Raymond) Eric Ford, Chemistry - November 2016, Michael Fox, Agriculture/Horticulture 20 August 2022, Michael Garrety, English - 21 December 2009, Dennis Guereca, Applied Social Science - 2March 2007, Margaret Haddon (ne Maycock), Chemistry - 13 November 2020. Robert Read, Mechanical Engineering - September 2012, Kenneth Rigby, Modern Electronics - 16 February 2013, James Wilkie, Spanish/Hispanic Studies - 22 February 2009, Jane Campbell (ne Hunter), English - March 2007, Karen Everett (ne Prince), Geography - 3 August 2016, Wesley Ewing, Agriculture/Horticulture - April 2020, William Forrest, Mining Engineering - 13 December 2012, Dr Vivian M Leveaux, Local and Regional History - 3 January 2016, Donald McCubbing, Zoology - 11 September 2015, Eric Moxham, Education - 3 September 2018, Eric Page, Child Psychology - 1 March 2013, Gary Philpott, Physics and Astronomy - 2011, Julian Pringle, Manufacturing Systems - 24 February 2006, Susan Watson, Medicine - 29 November 2011, Christopher Bromley, Education - September 2020, Philip Gold, Mechanical Engineering - April 2019, Lesley Jackson, Fine Art/Art History - 2005, Andrew Moody, Metallurgy and Material Science, Christopher Moor, Law and Politics - 7 November 2018, Graeme Scott, Mechanical Engineering - April 2013, Agnes Shie (ne Lee), Chemical Engineering - 2010, Michael Varnam, Community Medicine/Epidem - 2006, Kathleen Cove, Social Administration - 3 August 2015, Lesley Godber (nee Bennett), Education 31 December 2020, Keith Hutcheon, Mechanical Engineering - 16 February 2018. Peter graduated from Nottingham with a BSc in Chemistry in 1952 and qualified as a teacher in London. Following a second retirement he represented Europe Air Sports with EU rule making bodies. District of Education Officers Sierra Leone 1959-61, District Education Officer Nyasaland(Malawi) 1961-63. Obituary kindly supplied by friend of John, Dr Peter J. O'Connor. At the age of six, Michael had a fall which resulted in his being admitted to hospital with Perthes Disease, and many of his formative and early teenage years were sporadically spent in hospital. Obituary information kindly supplied by Bill (aka "Fuzz") Fearnley - Mathematics , 1956, Andrew Gerard Foster, Law - 3 February 2013, Alan Foulkes, English Studies and Philosophy - 29 November 2012, Dr Hiroo Inokuchi, Chemistry - 20 March 2014, Christine Kennett (ne Lakin), English - 16 August 2022, Dr Richard Langdale-Smith, Chemistry - 27 February 2012. Matt received his secondary education mostly in Nottingham, and came up to University College, Nottingham in 1942 or 1943 graduating with the London external B.Sc. Obituary kindly supplied by Dr Phillip Willey, Professor Nicholas (Nick) Hewitt, French - 1 March 2019, For a full obituary please seeCLAS Faculty News, Professor Christopher Johnson, French and Francophone Studies - 11 December 2019, Ian Longson, Engineering - 10 September 2018, Dr Lorna Magowan, Medical and Surgical Sciences - 2022. He helped to establish the first IVF clinic (the Premier Medical Specialist Hospital) in Gwagwalada in the Federal Capital Territory of Nigeria, in 1996. He graduated in 1984, working first for Liverpool University where he met his wife Lis, then for St Andrews University and in 1986 he joined Lis working for Epichem Ltd on The Wirral. Lynn Cunningham (ne Litherland), Law - 15 December 2010, Diana Draisey (ne Kemp), Music - 31 January 2011, Geoffrey Danson, Agriculture/Horticulture - 2 October 2017, Raymond Allan Farnell, Mechanical Engineering - 28 February 2013, Michael Hardy, Education - 23 August 2012, Ann Hutchinson (ne Burchett), Physics - 23 August 2014, Dr Kenneth Lawson, Philosophy - 7 April 2017. Pran Nath was a Mason for 50 years with the Rawdon Centennial Lodge 135, and a long-time member of the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 198. His father, Reginald Neumann, was manager of Stanton and Staveley coke ovens, and this necessitated the familys move to Stanton-by-Dale in Derbyshire. In 1996, John persuaded Camille to move with him to Northern California. He had previously lived in Canoga Park and Woodland Hills, as well as Clear Lake (Houston), Texas. Before long she was organising nationally - she helped establish RaPAL, a national network of research and practice in adult literacy - and in the 90s set up some of the first student support centres in universities, including at Leicester and Nottingham. She was extremely hard working and always willing to go the extra mile for the benefit of colleagues and the School. Co-chair of the Department of Life Sciences Athena SWAN committee. His real passion, however, was mentoring students and young professionals and he drew great pleasure from watching their success. In 1980 Vickers took over Rolls-Royce Motors which resulted in a move to London as Director of Planning, and he was appointed to the Board as Development Director in 1986. Known as an exceptional athlete and with great pace, John played in the England and GB Mens Hockey team in the 1960s, taking part in the 1964 Tokyo Olympic Games. He taught until his retirement in 1994. He went to work as a research scientist for Plessy at Caswell in Towcester, Northamptonshire. He taught also for the Open University, of which he was a keen advocate, and was research fellow for the Communist Party Oral History . Her experience of gaining a PhD (in 2001) under the supervision of Prof Sir John Savill, and working in his laboratory gave her personal insight into laboratory-based research, which equipped her to provide excellent support to research groups when she subsequently moved into an APM role. Marion Ann Cavalot ne Belton of Blackpool passed away on Thursday 8th October 2020. The fluidity of power in patron-client relations of Lake Victoria fisheries', Journal of Rural Studies. However, we had to move to Essex in 1982 for my work, settling in Black Notley, near Braintree. He graduated with a double first and won the Chancellors Medal for Greek verse composition. In recent years, Mum had moved from the family home in central Solihull wed lived in since moving from Wallasey in 1968. Her first concern was always for the welfare of the people she worked with. https://doi.org/10.1111/1477-8947.12149, Nunan, F, Cepic, D, Mbilingi, B, Odongkara, K, Yongo, E, Owili, M, Salehe, M, Mlahagwa, E & Onyango, P 2017, 'Community cohesion: social and economic ties in the personal networks of fisherfolk', Society and Natural Resources. His enthusiasm for life is very much missed by his family and friends. Guy was a well-respected and progressive farmer. Fred, who greatly enjoyed travelling, gave many invited and contributed talks at international research conferences. 707-789-9000. Demographic analysis of this type was still quite new as indeed were computers in historical research in the mid-1980s. Fiona de Londras joined Birmingham Law School as the inaugural Chair in Global Legal Studies in the summer of 2015, following time as professor of law at Durham Law School and a lecturer at . As a student, he contributed three articles to the student newspaper Gongster about an NUS trip to the USSR in April 1954 at the invitation of the Anti-Fascist Committee for Soviet Youth. To end on a more positive note, I must say that during his studies at Nottingham University he used to sing in pubs to get some pocket money. This was followed by two years of volunteering with VSO in Uganda and in 1969 she was awarded an MSc in Nematology from Imperial College, London. In 1937 she was married to Maurice William (Bill) Partridge, who would hold the Jesse Boot Chair of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Nottingham University. His next post was with the BBC Research Department, working on the magnetic recording of television signals, a technique then in its infancy. Let's hope it's better than that. In 1980, he was appointed to a four year term as a Pro-Vice-Chancellor and, in 1982, also took on the task of leading his department following the retirement of Professor Rex Coates. Richard was offered a position working in "plastics" which was not a pathway he wished to pursue and so decided to change careers. The research during the first half of his career investigated the transport of heat in solids and at the interface between liquid helium and solids (the Kapitza resistance problem). In recognition of Veras contributions to French language and culture she was appointed Chevalier dans lOrdre des Palmes Acadmiques by the French Government in 2007. Royal Holloway, University of London. She died at 91, with all her marbles, although physically getting frailer. During a summer tennis clinic at Glaxo in 1992, Dr. Westley met a charming young lady, Camille Dixon. A loving husband, father and grandfather. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06112-7_5, Darko, C, Carmichael, F, Ercolani, M, Siebert, S & Ozgen, C 2019 'Evidence on intergenerational income transition using complete Dutch population data' IZA Institute of Labor Economics. Obituary kindly supplied by Ann's son, Peter Clifford. Obituary information kindly supplied by David's wife, Patricia. An internationally recognised specialist in the field of Die Weisse Rose (students who gave their life resisting National Socialism) he was awarded an Honorary DLitt by the university for his work on Theodore Haecker. Anna taught for twenty years and is now in hotel events management. In fact, he never went back. . Professor Nunan's research interests lie in the arrangements for and practice of governance of renewable natural resources in low- and middle-income countries. She will be sorely missed by all who had the privilege of knowing her. Mum continued to be active, travelling both locally and internationally, taking great delight in visiting new places, running the local neighbourhood watch and tracing the family history getting all the way back to 1672. Sara has taken part in the London to Brighton cycle ride raising money for the British Heart Foundation, taken part in the Moon Walk in London in aid of the Breast Cancer charity, and several times taken part in the local cycle ride to raise money for the Cynthia Spencer Hospice. Uncle John as we called him then married Peggy in 1956 and all four of them remained such good friends throughout their lives. The father of one of his school friends made a lot of money by inventing two way stretch bras and as a consequence had a car (almost unheard of at the time). David J Mellor, Theology - 20 September 2017, James Olford, Economics/Agricultural Economics - 2 April 2017, Rev Dr Gerald Rimmington, Education - 10 October 2019. a School of Pharmacy, University of Birmingham, Edgba She has a strong interest in the barriers and enablers of innovation in SMEs and the impact of these on both management practice and government policy. Fiona WILKINSON, Senior Research Fellow | Cited by 2,473 | of Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester (MMU) | Read 119 publications | Contact Fiona WILKINSON Education of biological and fostered children in Ghana: the influence of relationships with the household head and household structure, Evidence on intergenerational income transmission using complete Dutch population data, The menopause taboo at work: examining womens embodied experiences of menopause in the UK police service, Why work? In 1985, Dr. Westley left Roche to join SKB, now known as Glaxo SmithKline, in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Fiona Oster is a Lecturer in Business Management at the University of Birmingham Dubai. His father, from Scotland, and his mother, from Leicestershire, lived in Ladbroke Grove, and were In the summer of 1939 staying with his grandparents at Husbands Bosworth in Leicestershire when war broke out and so he naturally stayed for a while. Christine was a highly respected and well-liked member of the local community. Following graduation from Nottingham with a degree in French she went on to make full use of her languages, initially in London where she worked for a Belgian import business, then later in Kent following her marriage to John McElroy. After graduation he worked in Her Majesty's Colonial Serviceand with the United Nations as a Plant Pathologist and Coconut Agronomist in Ghana, Jamaica, Hong King, Fiji, Trinidad and Western Samoa. Kate filled her time with her lifelong passions of nature, walking, gardening and tinkering with things and was an active supporter of many good causes. Obituary kindly supplied by Edna's son Con Cahill, Malcolm Cornwall, Physics - 1 February 2021, Barry Driscoll, Industrial Economics - 24 May 2012, Howard Erskine-Hill, English Studies and Philosophy - 26 February 2014, Margaret Green (neMcGough), Zoology - 2009, Alan Greenwell, Pharmacy/Pharmaceutical Sciences - 9 September 2010, Margaret Hafner (ne Child), French - July 2016, Anthony (Tony) Hall, Civil Engineering - 21 June 2018, Marjorie Harness (ne Radcliffe), Music - 2 February 2017, David Helliwell, Industrial Economics - 6 July 2012, Anne Jessica Hills MBE (ne Blackden), English - December 2007, Gerald Hooper, Mechanical Engineering - 19 February 2013, Elizabeth Howells, Politics - 13 May 2004, Barrington Isted, Economics & Social History - 27 October 2013, Ian Campbell Jeffrey, Mining Engineering - 25 May 2013, Terence Lemon, Civil Engineering - 19 August 2018, Josephine McElroy (ne Martin), French 14 June 2021. Staff college and a mid-career MMedSci from Nottingham led to senior rank, command of a hospital and public health. Kate spent three happy years at Nottingham, initially in Florence Nightingale then the Broadgate Flats and then a house in Dunkirk. View this record View. After his five years at Nottingham, he spent the next three years in national service as Flying Officer at RAF Middle Wallop and later as camp commander at RAF Trimley Heath. It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Dr. Peter Robert Norton on May 10th 2022 in Victoria Hospital, London, Ontario at the age of 79. He brightened up many a dreary chemistry practical; having sailed through his own experiments he would saunter through the lab for a consoling chat with those who were still struggling or who had thrown the wrong solution down the sink. An extraordinary man of quiet and enormous will and commitment, he spent his life in service to his family, community, and country. In 2003, in recognition of his studies, the Open University awarded Clifford a Science Degree, making him that rare breed: a Bachelor of both the Arts and Sciences. In 1958 he moved to the Technical Development dept of BNS at Pontypool, S Wales, and was employed on various aspects of nylon fabrics until the time of his death in an air crash close to Yeadon (now Leeds-Bradford) Airport, Yorkshire on 20th January 1969. He had numerous achievements during a highly distinguished career, which included his pioneering work with volcanic-associated deposits, which put the Mount Read volcanic arc in the lexicon of geologists around the world. Throughout all these years she maintained contact with the many friends she and David had made. The plan is so vast that the contribution of each writer is infinitesimal.. He is survived by family including daughter Saffron, and is missed by his very many friends in the City of Nottingham. At her funeral over 100 colleagues, friends and ex-graduates came from many parts of the country. Dubai CampusLecturer in Business Management. As it could only receive picture it had to be re-tuned to find out who nearly sank. Dr Lucia Busso Research Associate in Forensic Linguistics Email: l.busso@aston.ac.uk: . A superb linguist, inspiring teacher, prolific writer and translator, and a person capable of great generosity, Harry always cherished his Nottingham roots and kept in touch with successive generations of colleagues here, serving as external examiner in Russian for an unprecedented 6 years in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Daniel Matthew (Matt) Taub was born in 1926, the younger son of Rosa and Jimmy Taub, and he died in Winchester, Hampshire on 19 December 2021, aged 95. John and Carole are survived by their sons Neil and Howard and their families. Sons Michael, Andrew and Oliver were born over the following 5 years. His total research output, earned him a DSc awarded by the University of Nottingham. Robert leaves his wife, June, (Botany 1951), five adult children and fifteen grandchildren. He established a reputation for being able to solve unusual problems and continued this well into retirement fixing amongst other things his boat, friends cars, boilers and the endless cheap toys that couldnt stand up to his grandchildrens play. Fidelis was the eleventh child of thirteen, of which he is survived by five: Sir Casimir Akagbosu, Mr. Anthony Akagbosu, Chief Engineer Stephen Akagbosu, Mrs. Maria Igbinedion, and Mr. John Akagbosu. Obituary kindly supplied by Richard's daughter Sarah Downing. His PhD was awarded in 1968 and for the next nine years he worked for Hawker Siddeley in Group Management Services. Nigel W Wilkinson. Alan was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Mechanical and Mechatronics Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He visited over 50 countries on every continent (Antarctica excepted); particular highlights being South America, Borneo, the Maldives and New Zealand, where he practiced his interest in photography. She always carried knitting or sewing, wrote articles for Parish magazines, played the organ in several churches including Bawtry Parish church for the past 30 years and taught many piano pupils. 28, no. Bluff, reliable, always cheerful, he was a popular member of the year, particularly prominent in the annual Lake Battle against the Engineers, and the Beer Race around the University campus. She retired from teaching early and moved close to the Suffolk coast where she developed a voluntary career in the Girl Guiding movement, going on to become a qualified County trainer and subsequently chair of the Suffolk Trefoil Guild, along with running a merchandising depot for the local Guide Association for 27 years. As part of the thick sandwich he obtained a first in Electrical Engineering at Nottingham University. Pamela Pullen (ne Gray), Grouped Subjects, Clere Richardson (ne Baker), Zoology - October 2010, (Eileen) Mabel Roberts (ne Alexander), Physics - 3 September 2021. Sin remained very close to friends she made at Nottingham University. Always willing to expand his horizons, he learned computing through the Open University and went on to teach the subject at Northampton College. Dr. John William Westley 75, died December 12, 2011, at his home in Petaluma, California, after a brave and lengthy battle with pancreatic cancer. Colin Johnson, Agricultural Sciences - October 2009, Richard (Rik) Lewis, Mechanical Engineering - 28 February 2021, Professor Kevin Shingfield, Animal Science - September 2016. 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