Obituaries by year
The University regrets to announce the deaths of the following members of the University community.
All tributes are submitted by friends and colleagues.
Staff members can submit an obituary by emailing communications@cardiff.ac.uk.
2019
- Andrew Belsey
1942-2019 - Professor Barry Wilkinson
1956-2019 - Professor Tom Keenoy
1944-2019
2018
- Malcolm Anderson
1970-2018 - Professor Paul Bradley
1955-2018 - Professor Christopher Peter Morley, BA, DPhil
1957-2018 - Professor John Tyrrell
1942-2018 - Eric Markland
1923-2018 - Professor Christopher Hooley FRS
1928-2018 - Professor R. (Bob) F. Churchhouse CBE
1927-2018 - Dr John Etherington
1937-2018 - Michael Durrant
1934-2018
2017
- Professor Kenneth Gloag
1960-2017 - Robert Maynard Jones
1929-2017 - Sir Donald Walters
1925-2017 - Professor Peter Wells CBE
1936-2017 - Dr J R (Dick) Dickinson
1952-2017 - Don Barry
1944-2017 - Professor Michael (Mike) Brooks
1936-2017 - Professor David Garel Rhys CBE
1940-2017 - Honorary Distinguished Professor David Vernon Morgan
1941-2017 - Michael Chiles
1936-2017 - Professor David Moffat
1921-2017
2016
- Professor Chris McGuigan
1958-2016 - Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson
1926-2016 - Professor Julian William Thomas Wimpenny
1936-2016 - Professor Hazel Prichard
1954-2016
2015
- Professor Denis Towill
1933-2015 - Professor Alan Clarke
1963-2015 - Professor Frank Trombley
1947-2015 - Dr Bishnupada Pal Choudhury
1930-2015 - Dr Damian Pryor
1962-2015
2014
- Professor Michael O'Hara
1933-2014 - Professor Meirion Wyn Roberts
1931-2014 - Professor Jonathan Osmond
1953-2014 - Dr Mark A Jervis
1952-2014 - Anne Cluysenaar
1936-2014 - John Frankland Rigby
1933-2014 - Terence Hawkes
1932-2014 - Patricia Elsie Davies
1938-2014 - Professor Eric Whittle
1927-2014 - Dr Simon Griffey
1958-2014 - Jo Smart
1977-2014
2013
- Professor David R Williams
1940-2013 - Angela Toby
1959-2013 - Alexander Michael Davidson
1944-2013 - William H John (Bill)
1923-2013 - Dr Tom Parry Jones
1935-2013
2012
- Professor Alfred Douglas White
1941-2012 - Gordon Irvine
1924-2012 - Dr Francis Biley
1958-2012 - Dr David Bryant
1941-2012 - Norman Williams
1939-2012 - Professor Paul Spencer
1935-2012 - Professor Peter Thomas Haskell
1923-2012 - Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham
1937-2012 - Professor David Michael Rowe
1939-2012 - Sara Cater
1961-2012 - Professor Jeremy Alden
1943-2012 - Anthony Coxon
1938-2012
2011
- Dr Katrin Buerger
1978-2011 - Denis Price
1950-2011 - Professor Tudor Griffith
1951-2011 - Professor John Miller
1900-2011 - Emeritus Professor Frederic J Jones
1925-2011 - Nathaniel Rowson
1979-2011 - Leon Kane Maguire
1942-2011 - Dr Ivor Harrison
1931-2011
2010
- Dr Jennifer Gunning
1944-2010 - Dr Denis D’Auria
1946-2010 - The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill
1933-2010 - Professor Benjamin Isaac George Barr
1942-2010 - John Kenyon Roberts
1940-2010 - Martin Evans
1950-2010 - Professor Nicholas John Fiddian
1948-2010
2009
- Barbara Anna Geddes
1949-2009 - Trevor Watkins
1927-2009 - Sir Bryan Hopkin
1914-2009 - Lee O'Brien
1961-2009 - Professor Peter Walcot
1931-2009 - Graham L. Jones
1935-2009 - Professor John Pathy
1923-2009
2008
- John W. Perkins
1935-2008 - Dr David Kelly
1955-2008 - Sheila Miller
1938-2008 - Charles Elliott
1919-2008 - Alan Stevens
1925-2008 - Alun Hoddinott CBE
1929-2008 - Richard Parfitt
1958-2008 - Professor Ursula Henriques
1914-2008
2007
- Professor Howard Jones
1918-2007 - Professor John Bates
1924-2007 - Dr James Thomas
1971-2007 - Professor John Percival
1937-2007 - Professor Brian Cooke
1920-2007 - Ward, Paul
1968-2007 - Professor Ron Edwards
1930-2007 - Michael Quinn
1921-2007 - Robert Atkins
1943-2007 - Dr. Christopher Powell
1937-2007 - Dr. Tom Woollam
1979-2007 - Professor Stephen Crow
1934-2007 - H Colin Thomas
1947-2007
2006
- Dr Timothy Griffiths
1957-2006 - Professor Terry Coakley
1940-2006 - Professor Hadyn Ellis
1945-2006 - Sheila Foley
1950-2006 - Dr Gaynor Davies
1967-2006 - Dr Geoff Newman
1943-2006
2005
- Professor Richard Whipp
1954-2005 - Remo Catani
1938-2005