Obituaries

Passion, restless energy and sheer, dogged determination: Kemp in 1995

Sir Peter Kemp: Civil servant who brought profound change to Whitehall

Peter Kemp was instrumental in profoundly changing the organisation of the Civil Service.

Inside Obituaries

Paul Makin: Writer of the cult hit 'Nightingales'

Friday, 18 July 2008

When he wrote Nightingales, which drew on his experiences as a nightwatchman at the Birmingham NEC, Paul Makin displayed an inventive mind that made his best work stand out from other, run-of-the-mill sitcoms.

Ian Walker: Doyen of British motorsport

Friday, 18 July 2008

Ian Walker played a key role in British motorsport at the time when Colin Chapman's Lotus emerged as the team that would take Jim Clark and Graham Hill to world championship successes in the 1960s.

Professor Charlotte Erickson

Friday, 18 July 2008

Arriving at the LSE in the autumn of 1956, I was allocated Charlotte Erickson as my tutor, writes Roy Sturgess [further to the obituary by Negley Harte, 16 July]. At my first meeting I found her newly installed in a shared, small room high up in the New Building. It was a cosy, crowded room, cluttered with books and part-opened boxes, and filled with an atmosphere of what I could only later recognise as female homeliness.

Bryan Cowgill: Combative television executive who launched 'Match of the Day'

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Bryan Cowgill, who launched Match of the Day in August 1964, was a television executive who was good at making headlines – often as a result of his combative style.

Colin Cooper: Climax Blues Band singer

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Colin Cooper was the lead singer on "Couldn't Get It Right", the radio-friendly 1976 single by the Climax Blues Band and their sole hit in their native Britain. The group came up with the song after Miles Copeland, their manager, said he couldn't hear any hits amongst the tracks recorded for their ninth album, Gold Plated.

Professor Leonid Hurwicz: Nobel Prize-winning economist

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Leonid Hurwicz was one of the finest economists of his generation making many important contributions to economic theory, the most significant of which was his invention of the field of mechanism design.

Eric Silver: Insightful Anglo-Israeli journalist

Thursday, 17 July 2008

Eric Silver was a leading Anglo-Israeli journalist in Israel, author of a well-regarded biography of Menachem Begin, and one of the most insightful commentators on Israeli politics since the foundation of the state. He was always very much a professional journalist who could be guaranteed to produce intelligent and well balanced prose in the shortest possible time.

Hugh Lloyd: Popular comedy actor who found fame in 'Hancock's Half Hour'

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Hugh Lloyd found fame in Hancock's Half Hour and his was a perenially popular face in television sitcoms throughout the 1960s and 1970s.

Professor Charlotte Erickson: Meticulous historian of migration

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Charlotte Erickson was a superb historian, a marvellous person, a great teacher and a very influential exponent of American society, past and present, to a British audience. For two years at Vassar College in New York State, for 27 years at the London School of Economics and for a further seven at Cambridge University, she enthusiastically taught history as a social science, with special reference to the Anglo-American experience.

Charles Joffe: Producer of Woody Allen's films

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Charles Joffe was a high-powered agent and manager, and co-producer of most of Woody Allen's films, winning an Oscar for Annie Hall (1977) and a Bafta award for Manhattan (1979).

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