Obituaries
The University is deeply saddened to announce the deaths of the following Newcastle alumni. Please follow the links to read full obituaries.
Dorothy Heathcote MBE (Hon DLitt 2005)
An obituary of Dorothy Heathcote MBE, a world-renowned teacher who revolutionised the use of Drama in Education through a variety of pioneering techniques, who died on 8 October 2011 aged 85.
Professor Ernest Honigmann
An obituary of Prof Ernest Honigmann, a Shakespeare scholar who will have ‘a permanent influence’ on literary studies, who died on 11 July 2011 aged 83.
Mark Hanson (BA Business Management 1995)
An obituary of Mark Hanson, the digital PR impresario who was credited with inspiring John Prescott to use Twitter, who died on 2 March 2011, by his wife Clare Francis.
Peter William Ayling OBE (BSc Applied Science 1950)
Naval architect and former RINA Secretary, Peter Ayling, died Thursday 8 July 2010. Obituary by his daughter, Catherine.
Father of Newcastle politics, Hugh Berrington, dies at 82
An obituary of Emeritus Professor Hugh Berrington, who died on 8 November 2010. By Professor Peter Jones of the University's School of Geography, Politics and Sociology.
Professor Stewart Evans dies
An obituary of Professor Stewart Evans, who died in Newcastle from cancer on 11 August 2010, aged 73.
Sir George Leitch KCB OBE (BSc 1935, MSc 1939, Hon DSc 1946)
Died March 2010
Dr George Anthony Turnbull (MB BS 1955)
Died Friday 12 March 2010
Jean Middleton
Died Sunday 19 July 2009
Dr Fiona Mary Jameson née Lehmann (MB BS 1958)
Died Friday 2 January 2009
