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Dee Amy-Chinn (Politics 1981, Fylde) died on 3 December 2015, after four years of living with cancer. Patrick held various offices in the Society of Ancients and will be much missed by his friends for his knowledge, integrity and kindness. He was appointed to the council in 1993 and was chairman of the Audit Committee at the time when Lancaster was facing cash flow problems in the mid-1990s. He retired in 2011. He was born , John Robert Tice, 69, of Quarryville, went home to be with the Lord on Tuesday, January 25, 2022. Gill Sudlow was known to many staff and students on campus, having worked since 2003 managing campus guest rooms, and then transferring to Fylde College as College Residence Officer. He and his wife Irene were generous in the keen interest they took in the Universitys affairs and their participation in its cultural and social activities and maintained contact for a long period after his retirement from these roles. Brians interests also lay in aspects of print and broadcast media and their association with the arts and culture.In 2004, Brian moved to Lancaster to pursue his work at The Ruskin. Lindsey was the beloved husband of Maria and a devoted dad of Holly and Joe. ), Martin Cosgrif full obituary (Leamington Observer. He had not been well for some time and suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Mr Cockburn, who had taken an MA at St Andrews and served as Education Officer for the Colonial Service in Zambia, took up the post of Secretary to the School of Education at Lancaster on 19 August 1967. He enjoyed the sense of being at the centre of University life and working productively with colleagues and students across the campus to develop Lancasters reputation as a student-friendly institution. He also furthered town-gown relations by holding parties at the long gone, but not forgotten, Casa Baba cafe in Lancaster. Jen worked in the main Library from 1976 to 1993 and returned in 1998 as part of the founding Ruskin Library team, first as Secretary and from 2008 as Administrator for the Ruskin Library and Research Centre, retiring last year. In 1980 Harry returned to this country and quickly became a leader in his field here, at first at the University of Warwick, and later at London South Bank University, where he was a professor of sociology. It was a halcyon period of progress in post-conflict, unequalled before or after. She was a family lawyer and partner at BSG Solicitors, Lancaster a firm she helped create through a series of mergers after joining in 1989 and becoming a partner in 1996. In that time, he never failed to show his support and genuine care for all County members. Carl O'Keeffe, 49, passed away in hospital from his injuries at 3pm on Sunday April 30. Jill Walsh passed away on 13 August 2021, formerly from the Department of Environmental Science. He achieved cricket nirvana in 2008 when he umpired a Halifax Cup match involving the Gentlemen of Philadelphia at Lords, albeit on the Nursery Ground. She had been part of the very first intake at Lancaster along with future husband, Peter Catchpole and had been part of student debating and other college organisations. He served on University Court from 2009-2013 and on Senate from 2011-2013. Anne Cluysenaar, former member of staff, died on 1 November 2014. Motherhood soon followed with a daughter Hannah and son Sam. He was a member of the Socialist Labour League, a fundamentalist Trotskyist grouping renowned for the dour political workaholism of its membership. Dave Foster passed away suddenly in February 2013. Charlie, though, never fitted the stereotype. His research had an unusual breadth in its combination of detailed archival investigation with an excellent understanding of environmental change and its impacts on human societies. Sandy's full obituary (internal news.). After graduating she went on to complete a postgraduate diploma in Library and Information Science at Birmingham Polytechnic and her first job was as a Librarian at Sydney Stringer School in Coventry. He won 43 caps for England between 1959 and 1966 and captained his country fifteen times. Simone Novello (PhD Marketing/ Sociology, 2006) passed away on 27th November after a prolonged illness. She will be truly missed. Gaythorne Silvester (History and English, 1972, Bowland) died of cancer just a few weeks before his 70th birthday. He was script editor on Play for Today working with writers such as Malcolm Bradbury and David Edgar at the time he was appointed as Editor of The Archers in 1978. Learn More Appoint A Funeral Director Help finding the right service for your needs. David Helme, who ran the Universitys Bailrigg Service Station with his wife, Ann, for 27 years, passed away on 23 August in Royal Lancaster Infirmary after a short illness. Full obituary on the Guardian website. Keith was promoted to reader in 1996 and appointed to a chair in physics in 1999. An honorary LL.D. In later years, his position in a Management School stimulated him to open up an entirely new field, when he provided a magisterial account of the history of Operational Research in Britain in the twentieth century. She later joined the NHS as an accountant and became Deputy Director of Finance of several NHS organisations in the Midlands. She entered a PhD programme at Lancaster University in 1997 through the LANCDOC project the University was then contributing to, in collaboration with the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research. He was previously Professor of Information Management at Brunel University, and an associate of Henley Management College. By the third year, Tony was put into an Express stream that took O levels a year early. Although probably a Chelsea man by heart he maintained his love of sport, but was loyal to his adopted county in being a season ticket holder for Norwich FC. Greg W. Jackson. Her ashes were laid to rest on April 7 near her home in Fontenay-sous-Bois, Paris. The wider low-temperature community has responded to this loss with many messages of support from around the world. Copyright 2023 Echovita Inc. All rights reserved. Mon He was an inspirational and highly popular English teacher and went on to become Head of English and Head of Sixth Form at a comprehensive school in Milton Keynes. Oh, you wont miss me, Dick replied. After the release of Mandela, Xolani returned in 1993 to a South Africa in dire need of technically qualified Africans. Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw, a Deputy Pro-Chancellor at Lancaster from 1978 to 1992, died in Manchester on Sunday 10 August 2014 at the age of 101. He was Chancellor of Vaal University of Technology, and also holds a Lancaster PhD. He graduated from Lancaster after studying a BA in Educational Studies and Religious Studies in 1992, returned to do an MA in Education which was completed in 2002, and was awarded a PhD in 2007. He was a quantitative human geographer with expertise in spatial statistics who was well known for his publications on methods in geography. Whilst at Lancaster she was a keen member of the drama group and performed in Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" in 1969. After gaining his PhD in Physics in 1984, he returned to his home department in Swaziland rising to become head of the Physics Department.During his early years, he had been an active supporter of the anti-apartheid movement in Southern and when this made life too difficult for him, he claimed asylum in Australia in 1988 and took up a position in the University of Western Australia working on gravity-wave detection. In 1997, after almost 28 years at Lancaster, Tony retired and is reported as saying, 'mostly happy memories, perhaps tinged with a little sadness at leaving colleagues and friends.' John made learning mathematics fun and had a very unique way of teaching with a teddy bear! Charlie came to Lancaster in 1969 and was a part of that generation of working-class mature students, with a strong grounding in left-wing politics and trade unionism, which had a major impact on the culture of the new university. Professor Robert (Bob) O'Keefe (Computer Modelling for Business, 1979, Cartmel) died on January 31 2022, aged 63, after suffering with MND which had been diagnosed in May 2018. Since his retirement David was in demand and held many temporary contracts with WMS in teaching from 2007 to March 2013. Full obituary from The Guardian. (Professor James Gow, Kings College London). Yow Liang Keon (MA Operational Research, 1980, Lonsdale) passed away on 17 September 2021. It embraces themes in art, literature, philosophy and science, exploring the interaction and cultural context of conceptions of nature' in this period. Death Notices He worked for a variety of disability rights organisations including the RNIB and Guide Dogs for the Blind, and he was politically active in not just the Labour party but also the Co-operative Group, where he was on the board, as well as the Socialist Environment and Resources Association and Transport 2000. Shaun joined the department in 1988 and apart from a brief period working at CNRS in Grenoble has been with the department ever since. She built up the modern languages, classics and English collections and later theatre studies, visual arts and music. So, it appears, Steve did look back fondly on fieldwork. Dr Richard Xiao (Linguistics and English Language) passed away on Saturday 2 January 2016. At both schools, he improved the departments with the introduction of modern technology and ran very successful exchange programmes with schools in Burgundy. He will be remembered by all for his honesty, integrity, hard work and most of all his unwavering love and devotion to his family. Paul Mather (Information Engineering, 1990, Cartmel) died on 28 December 2017 after a 2 year battle with cancer, aged 52. Dan Lucas (German Studies, 2009, Cartmel) passed away suddenly on 11 March 2017 aged 31. Ian was appointed to a lectureship in Geography at Lancaster University in 1979, having previously been a lecturer in the Geography department at Glasgow University. Originally from Castleford, Yorkshire, Malcolm joined Lancaster in 1972 as one of the porters. Xolani was a Zulu (with a big capital Z) and with the boundless Zulu self-confidence, which allowed him to slip comfortably into this northern society. WebAge 77. David first came to Lancaster in 1977/8 to study on the MA (yes, MA not MSc!) Mark Goddard Memorial Oak Tree - This is to inform the family and friends of the late Mark Goddard, a Geography undergraduate who sadly died in 1988, that the oak tree they planted in his memory has been moved. He wrote the authoritative book on Britain and the War for Yugoslavia and was appointed as Official Historian of the Special Operations Executive in Yugoslavia. A full obituary appears on the Lancaster University obituaries page. Michael Waller, founding member of Russian Studies passed away on 24 October 2021. These were the years that included the most significant rent strike in the history of the university during 1975-76, with Cartmel initially at the eye of the storm. Most recently Lindsey was an HR Director at Wm Morrisons. Geoff was Head of the Department from 1987 to 1996. Obituaries He also chaired a Cabinet Office committee on the public understanding of science, leading to the Wolfendale Report of 1995 that urged the popular dissemination of the results of scientific research. Professor Clive Church was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in European Studies from 1966 to 1981 (although he was still teaching at Lancaster until 1983), heading the then-Department of European Studies at Lancaster, before it was dissolved and transferred to the University of Kent, where Clive held a chair and remained until retirement in 2003 and beyond as Emeritus Professor. He had the rare ability to have exactly the right words for any situation at any time, never spoiling the fun whilst maintaining 100% professionalism. Graham Austerberry (English, 1973, Bowland) passed away in August 2019 after a long illness aged 67, a day before his 68th birthday. He developed a regression diagnostic for the continuation ratio model and a random-effects continuation ratio model for longitudinal data which was incorporated into the data analysis software R.In more recent years Damon returned to medical statistics and took up a Chair in Applied Statistics at Swansea University. Guardian He made a huge contribution to the Department and the profession of Operational Research, in which he was particularly noted for his developments of computer simulation. From 2002 Steve was a teaching associate and a research associate in the Department until he took up his lectureship in September 2014. Dr Andy McCabe (Engineering) died suddenly at home after a short illness in May 2014. He retired in 2008. After gaining her doctorate in 1999, Cheryl took up her post at Lancaster University the same year and spent the majority of her career in FASS as a Research Associate. How times have changed in the magazine world. When Stephie retired from Stagecoach, she missed the camaraderie that working life offered and wanted to be part of a team again. Professor Beth Harland, Professor of Fine Art passed away on 31 July 2019. Born in West Grove, he was the son of the la. Born on 17th December 1942 in Barnstaple, Devon, Michael spent his early years enjoying the coast and countryside of North Devon. Den Winterburn (French Studies, 1967, Cartmel) died on 10 August 2022. He moved to New Mills where he fondly remembered delivering milk on the horse-drawn dray up and down the steep lanes. David returned to academia in 1998, when he joined Lancaster University as a Senior Lecturer and was appointed Chair in Neuroscience in 2002. Tributes from her colleagues may be viewed in her full obituary (internal news. His vision and energy gave the department a flying start. Professor Graham Chapman died suddenly on 31 August. Web1 Retired senior nurse who worked for more than two decades at Kendal's hospital dies 1 Tributes paid to former Kendal librarian, 59, after coronavirus claims her life 3 Talented musician died peacefully listening to music he played with daughter 1 Tributes to subsea legend from Broughton who changed the world Michael continued to live in Fife after he retired from St Andrews University in 1999, and took up a post at Kingston University until 2003. Michael French, the first Head of the Engineering Department and its founding professor, died on Tuesday 24 February 2015. Throughout his adult life he supported a wide range of radical causes nationally and internationally. Graham worked there for many years undertaking various specialist and managerial roles. He acted as Returning Officer in SRC elections being the only person who fully understood the system of proportional representation then in place. He became interested in the study of high energy photons and worked at Daresbury and at CERN, where he was a spokesperson of a large collaboration that drew on his ability to build good relations within a team. Simon Hanley (History, 1984, Fylde) died on his 60th birthday, New Years Eve 2022, in Barcelona, following a short but bravely fought battle with cancer. He then relocated to Cheshire and taught at Stockport College for 15 years where OFSTED awarded him many Outstanding marks for his way of teaching. Andie is highly regarded by her clients and professionals including solicitors, barristers and Judges. The full obituary written by the University Archivist, Marion McClintock, is featured on the Lancaster University website. He was the Chief Executive of Chelmsford City Council for 13 years and was described as making a 'huge impact' leading the team responsible for Chelmsford's successful bid for city status to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Steve was completely committed to Lancaster and its students and embodied a great many of the Universitys strengths and values. Dr Lewis Hughes passed away in March 2021. He quickly became a subject librarian, specialising in the social sciences and humanities, including History and Politics. Skip to main content (800) 896-5587. He started at the University in February 1985 and retired in March 2011. Lesley A. Catchpole (nee Morrey), (International Politics, 1967, Bowland) died on September 13 2019 after a short stay in hospital. She was born Nov. 12, 1951, in Lancaster, daughter of the He appeared in the first matches played by Lancaster sides in hockey (as a fearless goalkeeper), cricket, football and badminton. His immersion in higher education began at Lancaster University, where he took a degree in History in 1971. He was Senior Tutor of Bowland College from 1968-77, and Principal of Fylde College from 1977-82, when he moved to the central administration as Senior Assistant Secretary for Colleges and Welfare Services. Jane Lewis, (Music, 1989, Bowland) passed away on 1 July 2018 just after her 50th birthday and 25th wedding anniversary.
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