Obituaries
The University is deeply saddened to announce the deaths of the following Newcastle alumni. Please follow the links, if present, to read full obituaries.
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Dr Dorothy Brown Walls
MB BS 1949
Date Added: 01/10/2013
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Professor Pratyush Sen
Date Added: 26/09/2013
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Mr Anthony John Bray
MBA Master of Business-industrial Management 1983
Date Added: 25/09/2013
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Dr Mary Margaret Skillen
MB BS 1966
Date Added: 16/09/2013
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Mrs Julie Watson
LLB 1983
Date Added: 16/09/2013
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Dr Renee Anne Berrill
PhD Education 1980
Date Added: 06/09/2013
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Emeritus Professor Ian Rannie
Date Added: 05/09/2013
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Mr Patrick Clode
BA Fine Art 1962
Date Added: 03/09/2013
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Mr Ralph McCoy
BSc Agriculture 1966
Date Added: 02/09/2013
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Dr Jill Graham
BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery 1999
Date Added: 02/09/2013
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Dr Norma Dorothy Forster
MB BS 1949
Date Added: 22/08/2013
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Mr John Martin McIntyre
Dip Diploma in Landscape Design 1973
Date Added: 21/08/2013
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Mrs Angela White
Date Added: 14/08/2013
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Emeritus Professor George Albert Swan
Chemistry 1938
Date Added: 14/08/2013
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Miss Brenda Margaret Norgain
BSc Zoology (botany & Physiology) 1957
Date Added: 14/08/2013
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Dr Howard Alan Scott
MB BS 1945
Date Added: 14/08/2013
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Mr Martin Thomas Boland
Cert Graduate Certificate in Education 1993
Date Added: 14/08/2013
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Mrs Karen Cowley
Date Added: 12/08/2013
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Dr Constance Mary Fraser FS
BA History 1948 , PhD 1951
Date Added: 09/08/2013
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Dr Jean Mary Flowers
BDS 1974
Date Added: 30/07/2013
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Dr Stanley Lennox
BSc Mathematics 1947 , MSc Mathematics 1954
Date Added: 29/07/2013
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Mr John Alexander Broadhead
BSc Metallurgy 1975
Date Added: 23/07/2013
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Mr Anthony John Challoner
BSc Metallurgy 1975
Date Added: 23/07/2013
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Mr Reginald John Morton (Riginald)
BSc Agriculture 1958
Date Added: 16/07/2013
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Mr Jason Stephanopoulos
Date Added: 16/07/2013
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Dr Brian Saunders
BSc Mining Engineering 1966 , PhD Applied Science 1970
Date Added: 16/07/2013
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Mr Stephanus Sukamto
MA Linguistics for TESOL 1997
Date Added: 16/07/2013
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Mr John Arthur Davison OBE
BSc Civil Engineering 1941
Date Added: 15/07/2013
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Mr Keir Owen Walter Smith
BA Fine Art 1973
Date Added: 15/07/2013
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Ms Rachel Mary Hopkirk
BA Combined Studies 2003
Date Added: 10/07/2013
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Mr Syinove Marit Lothe
Testamur in English 1984
Date Added: 10/07/2013
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Dr Ridley Gibson
MB BS 1956
Date Added: 10/07/2013
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Mr Thomas Joures
BCom Bachelor of Commerce 1949
Date Added: 08/07/2013
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Dr John Roger Wardlaw Sinton (Roger)
MB BS 1947
Date Added: 08/07/2013
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Mr Kevin Desilva
LLB 2004
Date Added: 08/07/2013
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Mrs Joan Sjovoll
MPhil MPhil Education 1998
Date Added: 08/07/2013
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Mr Edward Readshaw
BSc Civil Engineering 1948
Date Added: 08/07/2013
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Mr Panagiote Hadjiconstantinou
BSc Marine Engineering 1976
Date Added: 05/07/2013
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Mr Andrew Henry Rutherford
BSc Nda & 10 Weeks Course 1938
Date Added: 04/07/2013
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Dr George Calvin
MSc Clinical Biochemistry 1971
Date Added: 04/07/2013
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Mr David Douglas Ramsay
BArch 1952
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mrs Joan Margaret Foster
MPhil History 2001 , PhD History 2004
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Michael Leslie Frampton
MSc Master of Science 1970
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Albert Edward Clemit
Certificate Further Professional Studies in E
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Geoffrey Stephenson
BA Bachelor of Arts 1966 , BArch Bachelor of Architecture 1969
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Michael Baron Neild Dungworth
BEd Bachelor of Education 1978 , MLit Master of Letters 1981
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Professor Robert George Crawford
Dip Diploma in Advanced Educational Studies 1971
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Christopher Paul Gallagher (Chris)
MSc Geophysics 1977
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Henry Stuart Short
BSc Naval Architecture 1955 , MSc 1958
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Dr Alister Edwin Hurford
BDS 1948
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Barry Bayley
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Miss Helen Driver
MA Applied Policy Rsch 2003
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Dr George Goulty
MSc Geography 1970 , MLitt Town and Country Planning 1988
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mrs Judith Lesley Hancocks
BEd Bachelor of Education 1976
Date Added: 03/07/2013
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Mr Eric William Taylor Malcolm
BSc Agriculture 1942
Date Added: 01/07/2013
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Dr Anne Rosemary Boon
MB BS 1948 , Dip Public Health 1968
Date Added: 01/07/2013
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Mr Paul Steele
BA 1966 , MSc 1970
Date Added: 01/07/2013
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Dr Alfred Hewitt
MB BS 1952
Date Added: 01/07/2013
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Mrs Valerie Hamilton
MEd Master of Education 1976
Date Added: 28/06/2013
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Mrs Audrey Lothian
BA French Spanish Philosophy 1962
Date Added: 28/06/2013
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Mrs Carole Margaret Groeneveld
BA German 1974
Date Added: 27/06/2013
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Mr Simon Ebblewhite
Date Added: 27/06/2013
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Ms Stephanie Wilson
BSc Physical Geography 2010
Date Added: 27/06/2013
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Emeritus Professor Joseph Fenerty
BSc Chemistry 1959
Date Added: 27/06/2013
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Dr John Richard Howard
MB BS 1968
Date Added: 26/06/2013
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Miss Pippa Darlington
Date Added: 26/06/2013
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Miss Leah Elizabeth Willis
Date Added: 26/06/2013
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Mr Joseph Hudson
Date Added: 26/06/2013
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Mr John Robert Murray McCheyne
Date Added: 19/06/2013
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Dr John Rodger Thornham
MB BS 1971
Date Added: 13/06/2013
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Mr Michael James Custance
BA Bachelor of Arts 1979
Mike Custance died suddenly as a result of previously unsuspected heart problems. Mike was an undergraduate at Newcastle University, 1976-79, graduating with honours in History and Politics. Mike had subsequently trained as a professional librarian, and worked in libraries in Essex and London. He had also served as branch secretary of Brent NALGO in the 1990s. Mike’s funeral was held at Breakspear Crematorium in Ruislip on June 6th and was attended by alumni of Newcastle, as well as Mike’s family.
Date Added: 12/06/2013
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Mr Jonah Leonard Jones
Date Added: 10/06/2013
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Ms Louisa Hodgson
Date Added: 06/06/2013
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Mr Eric Grant Underwood
Dip Architecture 1967
Date Added: 06/06/2013
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Dr John Carroll
MEd Master of Education 1977 , PhD Education 1987
Date Added: 04/06/2013
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Dr Manuchehr Sabetian
MB BS 1954
Date Added: 22/05/2013
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Mr Frank Nigel Hepper (Nigel)
BSc Botany 1950
Date Added: 22/05/2013
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Emeritus Professor David Alexander West
The University announces with deep regret the sudden death of Emeritus Professor David West on 13th May 2013. Professor West was first appointed to the University in 1969 as Chair of Latin. He served as Pro-Vice-Chancellor from 1976 to 1980. Professor West was accorded the title of Emeritus Professor upon his retirement in September 1992.
Date Added: 16/05/2013
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Sir Terence Ernest Manitou Frost (Terry)
Read Full ObituaryDate Added: 15/05/2013
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Mr Noel Armstrong Forster
BA Fine Art 1957
Read Full ObituaryDate Added: 14/05/2013
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Professor Geza Vermes
Former lecturer, Geza Vermes, who produced the first English translation of the Dead Sea Scrolls while working at Newcastle University, died on Wednesday, aged 88.
Read Full ObituaryDate Added: 13/05/2013
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Dr Rosemary Ahmed
MB BS 1964
Date Added: 30/04/2013
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Mr Paul Blacklock
Date Added: 29/04/2013
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Mr James John Burrell
LLB 1953
Date Added: 25/04/2013
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Mr Edward Marcus George Trainer
BSc Microbiology 1993
Date Added: 24/04/2013
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Mr Eric James Dobson
Date Added: 24/04/2013
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Mr Richard James nicholas Pollitt
BSc Chemistry 1983
Date Added: 22/04/2013
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Mr Kaspar Kruse Kielland
BCom Commerce 1953
Date Added: 22/04/2013
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Dr Peter Alexander Milne
BSc Marine Engineering 1957 , PhD Applied Science 1960
Date Added: 22/04/2013
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Mr Hugh Grimley
BA Music 1972
Date Added: 22/04/2013
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Dr Harry Donald Glenwright
BDS 1957 , MDS 1969
Date Added: 22/04/2013
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Mr Kenneth Harry Billyard
BA Fine Art 1966
Date Added: 22/04/2013
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Dr John Barnes Foster
MB BS 1953 , MD 1973
Date Added: 10/04/2013
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Dr Michael Joseph Clay
LLB 1937 , MB BS 1942
Date Added: 08/04/2013
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Mr Neil Douglas Hamilton
Dip Diploma in Business Administration 1994
Death of a retired member of staff The University announces with regret, the death of Mr Neil Hamilton. Neil was first appointed as a Technician to the then Department of Medicine in 1978. He took early retirement from this post and was subsequently re-engaged as IT Manager in Central Scientific Facilities in 1997. Mr Hamilton was promoted to Senior Research Associate in the School of Clinical Medical Sciences in April 2003 where he worked until his early retirement in July 2004 The funeral is to be held at Sunderland Crematorium on Monday 15th April 2013 at 2.30 pm. Family flowers only please. Donations if desired to the Great North Air Ambulance and these can be made directly to Neil’s page . published on: 12th April 2013 In Memory Of Neil Hamilton Neil was tragically killed whilst motorcycling. The air ambulance attended and pronounced him dead at the scene. This page has been created in recognition of the outstanding work undertaken by the Great North Air Ambulance.
Date Added: 04/04/2013
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Mr Lee Halpin
MA Creative Writing 2010
Date Added: 04/04/2013
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Dr Cedric Mathieson Scott TD
MB BS 1949
Date Added: 26/03/2013
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Mrs Pat Rooney
BA French
Date Added: 20/03/2013
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Mr Simon Charles Fenn
Date Added: 20/03/2013
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Mr Stanley Anderson (Stan)
LLB 1992
Date Added: 20/03/2013
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Dr Angus Robson Bird
MB BS 1952
Date Added: 20/03/2013
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Mr Peter Auty (Pete)
MFA 1981
Date Added: 18/03/2013
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Mr Ramsay Gray
Architecture 1983
Date Added: 18/03/2013
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Dr Anne Vera Brown
MB BS 1966
Date Added: 18/03/2013
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Dr Jean Burns Thompson
MB BS 1958
Date Added: 07/03/2013
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Emeritus Professor Philip John Yarrow
Date Added: 04/03/2013
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Professor Cemal Birön
PhD Mining Engineering 1955
Date Added: 20/02/2013
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Professor Kwesi Akwansah Andam
PhD Structural Engineering 1979
Date Added: 13/02/2013
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Mr EA Madenski
Electrical Engineering Hons 1948
Date Added: 11/02/2013
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Ms Sarah Matheson Bain
BSc Agricultural and Environmental Science 1977
Date Added: 08/02/2013
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Mrs Enid Treherne
BA German 1975
Date Added: 04/02/2013
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Mr Peter James Kettlewell
BSc Mathematics 1983
Date Added: 04/02/2013
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Dr Alan John Lacey
PhD Botany 1955
Date Added: 04/02/2013
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Dr Andrew Davis OT
MB BS 1951 , MD 1966
Date Added: 31/01/2013
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Mr David Walter Backham
BA French 1969
Date Added: 30/01/2013
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Dr Alec Leonard Panchen
Date Added: 30/01/2013
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Emeritus Professor Kenneth Henderson Jack OBE
BSc Chemistry 1939 , DTHPT Diploma in Theory & Practice Teaching 1940 , MSc Chemistry 1944
Date Added: 30/01/2013
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Mr Malcolm Carpenter
MSc Pure Mathematics 1963
Date Added: 30/01/2013
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Dr Herbert Loebl OBE
BSc Electrical Engineering 1949 , PhD History 1985 , Hon DSc 2003
Date Added: 29/01/2013
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Mr George Alfred Nellis
BSc Geology 1973
Date Added: 23/01/2013
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Mrs Margaret Anne Jephcott
BA French 1972
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Miss Lesley Milburn
BA German With French 1996 , PGCE Graduate Certificate in Education (secondary) 1997
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Dr Kevin James Higginbotham-Jones
MB BS 1983
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Dr Rachel Majumdar
MB BS MB BS 2011
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Mrs Winifred Mary Hodson (Win)
BSc Geography 1952 , Dip Diploma in Education 1953
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Mr John Whitehead Hall
BSc Civil Engineering 1944
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Dr Una Finnegan
MB BS 2012
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Ms Mary Lucy Spencer (Marie)
BA History 1943
Date Added: 22/01/2013
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Mr Edward Hill
Architecture 1952
Date Added: 14/01/2013
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Miss Isis Aimee Nassar
MFA 1982
Date Added: 14/01/2013
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Dr RMS Parker
MB BS 1944
Date Added: 14/01/2013
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Mrs Elizabeth McIntosh
BSc Geography 1969 , Dip Landscape Design 1971
Date Added: 14/01/2013
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Mr Arthur Brian Keighley
BSc Mechanical Engineering 1950
Date Added: 04/01/2013
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Dr Alan Richard Reece (DSc)
BSc Engineering 1947 , MSc Agricultural Engineering 1950 , PhD Agricultural Engineering 1964 , Hon DSc 2006
Date Added: 04/01/2013
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Dr Derek Arthur Lott
PhD Agricultural & Environmental Sciences 1999
Date Added: 02/01/2013
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Mr Andrew McQueen
BSc BSc Marketing 2008
Date Added: 02/01/2013
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Dr Neville Jackson
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 02/01/2013
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Dr Jean Bainbridge
MB BS 1949
Date Added: 02/01/2013
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Professor Laurence Gowing
Date Added: 19/12/2012
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Mr Philip Bernard Chedgzoy Warwick
Date Added: 19/12/2012
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Mr Kenneth Emsley
LLM 1970
Date Added: 18/12/2012
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Mr Keith Michael Smith
BSc Biological Sciences - Botany 1954 , Dip Education 1956
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Ms Jillian Rowe
BA Sociology & Social Administration 1975
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Jack Angus
DipA Dip Architecture 1961
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Philip Lumley
BArch 1961
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Dr CN Matthews
BDS 1985
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Nick Sheridan Russell
BA Combined Studies 1987 , MSc Computer Science 1989
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Lt Col James Patrick Brown
BDS 1950
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Dr Peter Ernest Fawcett
BDS 1960
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Bryan Ian Murray
BA Archaeology 2004
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr James Rossiter
BA Honours Business Management 2004
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Oliver John William Smith
BSc Agric with Hons Farm Business Management 2006
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Stuart Graham
BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery 1968
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Derek Brown
BSc Applied Science 1966
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Lee Leslie Burrell
BA Town & Country Planning 1993 , Dip Diploma in Town Planning 1995
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mrs Marilyn Swallow
BA General 1971
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Dr Christine Mary Garner
BSc Biochemistry 1975
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr Roger Nicholas Cooper
BSc Applied Science 1972
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Ms Barbara Anne Beavis
BSc Mathematical Sciences 1973
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mrs Janice Seymour Plumb
BA Scandinavian Studies 1969
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Dr Wallace D Busby
MB BS 1952
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Mr SJ Pritchard
1970
Date Added: 17/12/2012
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Miss Petra Meinertzhagen
BA COMBINED STUDIES 2003
Date Added: 14/12/2012
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Dr Derek Lindsay Lodge
BDS 1971
Date Added: 12/12/2012
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Dr Peter Campton Foreman
BDS 1956 , MDS Master of Dental Surgery 1981 , PhD Dental Surgery 1984
Date Added: 12/12/2012
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Dr John Garrick Walton
BDS 1948
Date Added: 12/12/2012
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Dr Martin Benjamin Anderson
BDS Bachelor of Dental Surgery 1977
Date Added: 12/12/2012
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Dr SFA Lowe
BDS 1954
Date Added: 12/12/2012
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Dr David John Tudor Webb OBE
PhD Architecture 1989
Date Added: 10/12/2012
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Mr Keith Adamson Ridley
Diploma of Architecture 1964
Date Added: 10/12/2012
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Dr Archer Charles Birch
BDS 1952
Date Added: 10/12/2012
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Emeritus Professor John Warburton Thompson
Date Added: 07/12/2012
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Mr Paul Watkins
BSc Geology 1976
Date Added: 04/12/2012
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Dr Robert Elliott
PhD Agriculture 1977
Date Added: 03/12/2012
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Mr James Ian Love Stephenson (Ian)
BA Fine Art 1956
Date Added: 29/11/2012
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Dr James Beveridge
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 27/11/2012
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Mrs Nadine Awde
MA Master of Education (MEd) 2007
Date Added: 27/11/2012
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Mr Laurence Roy Kitchin (Roy)
Date Added: 26/11/2012
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Mr John Bernard Walters
BA Fine Art 1961
Date Added: 26/11/2012
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Mr Charles Robert Owen Medley (Robert)
Date Added: 26/11/2012
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Emeritus Professor Kenneth Rowntree
Date Added: 26/11/2012
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Dr Lorna Anne Potts
MB BS 1959
Date Added: 23/11/2012
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Mr Leonard Charles Evetts
Date Added: 23/11/2012
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Ms Pamela Mary Elliss
BA General 1974
Date Added: 19/11/2012
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Miss Cathy Ann Benson
MB BS 1995
Date Added: 19/11/2012
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Dr Hewan Archdale Dewar
MB BS 1935 , MD 1938
Date Added: 16/11/2012
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Mr John Dexter Davison
Date Added: 13/11/2012
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Mrs Maureen Taylor
BA English & Philosophy 1949
Date Added: 12/11/2012
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Miss Derryanna Marson
BA Combined Studies 1985
Date Added: 06/11/2012
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Dr Arthur Alexander Walker
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 01/11/2012
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Dr Herbert Alan Stephens Walker
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 01/11/2012
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Dr Margaret Ethlin Yelland
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 01/11/2012
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Dr Barry Colville
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 01/11/2012
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Dr Edwin Aldridge Haddock (Aldridge)
Date Added: 01/11/2012
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Ms Joyce Gray
Diploma in Advanced Educational Studies 1969
Date Added: 30/10/2012
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Emeritus Professor John Cannon CBE
Date Added: 30/10/2012
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Mr Austin Miller
BSc Electrical Engineering 1953
Date Added: 26/10/2012
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Mr Aris Christodoulou
BSc Agriculture 1963
Date Added: 26/10/2012
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Miss Marion Paynter
DipLD Dip Landscape Design 1951
Date Added: 18/10/2012
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Mr Geoffrey Cecil Reay
BSc Civil Engineering 1953
Date Added: 18/10/2012
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Mr Peter Nunn
BSc Metallurgy 1949
Date Added: 15/10/2012
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Dr Roger Forbes Garside
PhD Doctor of Philosophy 1969
Date Added: 12/10/2012
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Dr Miri Hussein
PhD SELS 2009
Date Added: 11/10/2012
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Mr Anthony Clive Brereton Grezo
BA Politics & Economics 1984
Date Added: 08/10/2012
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Dr Colin Maurice Leon MBE
MB BS 1953
Date Added: 08/10/2012
