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.
2022
- Dr Rachel Coombe
1958-2022
2021
- Professor Humphrey Palmer
1930-2021 - Dr David R Lees
1942-2021 - John Potts
1947-2021 - Professor Brian Joseph Brinkworth CEng FREng FRAeS FIMechE FEI
1932-2021 - Catherine Belsey
1940-2021 - Dr Philip Buckle
1968-2021 - Helen Ceridwen Saunders
1960-2021
2020
- James Young
1950-2020 - Neil Wellard
1957-2020 - Professor John Gwynfor Jones
1936-2020 - Mary Pearce
1949-2020 - Bernard Mallows MBE
1940-2020 - Dr Philippa Coales
1959-2020 - Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS
1932-2020 - Dr Tina Gambling
1970-2020
2019
- Dr Reg Hinkley
1947-2019 - John Lake Moore
1936-2019 - Andrew Belsey
1942-2019 - Professor Barry Wilkinson
1956-2019 - Professor Tom Keenoy
1944-2019
2018
- Dr John Etherington
1937-2018 - Professor Paul Bradley
1955-2018 - Professor Christopher Hooley FRS
1928-2018 - Eric Markland
1923-2018 - Professor Christopher Peter Morley, BA, DPhil
1957-2018 - Professor R. (Bob) F. Churchhouse CBE
1927-2018 - Michael Durrant
1934-2018 - Professor John Tyrrell
1942-2018 - Malcolm Anderson
1970-2018 - Brian Hooper
1954-2018
2017
- Don Barry
1944-2017 - Robert Maynard Jones
1929-2017 - Professor David Garel Rhys CBE
1940-2017 - Professor Peter Wells CBE
1936-2017 - Michael Chiles
1936-2017 - Professor David Moffat
1921-2017 - Honorary Distinguished Professor David Vernon Morgan
1941-2017 - Sir Donald Walters
1925-2017 - Dr J R (Dick) Dickinson
1952-2017 - Professor Kenneth Gloag
1960-2017 - Professor Michael (Mike) Brooks
1936-2017 - Gwyn Ingli James
1928-2017
2016
- Professor Hazel Prichard
1954-2016 - Professor Chris McGuigan
1958-2016 - Professor Julian William Thomas Wimpenny
1936-2016 - Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson
1926-2016
2015
- Professor Denis Towill
1933-2015 - Professor Frank Trombley
1947-2015 - Professor Alan Clarke
1963-2015 - Dr Bishnupada Pal Choudhury
1930-2015 - Dr Damian Pryor
1962-2015
2014
- Professor Michael O'Hara
1933-2014 - Dr Simon Griffey
1958-2014 - Terence Hawkes
1932-2014 - Dr Mark A Jervis
1952-2014 - Jo Smart
1977-2014 - John Frankland Rigby
1933-2014 - Peter Thomas
1935-2014 - Patricia Elsie Davies
1938-2014 - Anne Cluysenaar
1936-2014 - Professor Eric Whittle
1927-2014 - Professor Meirion Wyn Roberts
1931-2014 - Professor Jonathan Osmond
1953-2014
2013
- Alexander Michael Davidson
1944-2013 - Angela Toby
1959-2013 - William H John (Bill)
1923-2013 - Professor David R Williams
1940-2013 - Dr Tom Parry Jones
1935-2013
2012
- Dr Francis Biley
1958-2012 - Dr David Bryant
1941-2012 - Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham
1937-2012 - Professor Peter Thomas Haskell
1923-2012 - Professor David Michael Rowe
1939-2012 - Professor Paul Spencer
1935-2012 - Gordon Irvine
1924-2012 - Norman Williams
1939-2012 - Anthony Coxon
1938-2012 - Professor Alfred Douglas White
1941-2012 - Sara Cater
1961-2012 - Professor Jeremy Alden
1943-2012
2011
- Professor John Miller
1900-2011 - Dr Ivor Harrison
1931-2011 - Emeritus Professor Frederic J Jones
1925-2011 - Professor Tudor Griffith
1951-2011 - Leon Kane Maguire
1942-2011 - Dr Katrin Buerger
1978-2011 - Nathaniel Rowson
1979-2011 - Denis Price
1950-2011
2010
- Professor Benjamin Isaac George Barr
1942-2010 - John Kenyon Roberts
1940-2010 - Martin Evans
1950-2010 - Professor Nicholas John Fiddian
1948-2010 - The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill
1933-2010 - Dr Denis D’Auria
1946-2010 - Dr Jennifer Gunning
1944-2010
2009
- Professor John Pathy
1923-2009 - Barbara Anna Geddes
1949-2009 - Professor Peter Walcot
1931-2009 - Trevor Watkins
1927-2009 - Graham L. Jones
1935-2009 - Lee O'Brien
1961-2009 - Sir Bryan Hopkin
1914-2009
2008
- Alun Hoddinott CBE
1929-2008 - Alan Stevens
1925-2008 - Charles Elliott
1919-2008 - John W. Perkins
1935-2008 - Professor Ursula Henriques
1914-2008 - Dr David Kelly
1955-2008 - Sheila Miller
1938-2008 - Richard Parfitt
1958-2008
2007
- H Colin Thomas
1947-2007 - Robert Atkins
1943-2007 - Dr. Tom Woollam
1979-2007 - Professor John Bates
1924-2007 - Professor John Percival
1937-2007 - Ward, Paul
1968-2007 - Dr James Thomas
1971-2007 - Michael Quinn
1921-2007 - Professor Ron Edwards
1930-2007 - Professor Howard Jones
1918-2007 - Professor Brian Cooke
1920-2007 - Professor Stephen Crow
1934-2007 - Dr. Christopher Powell
1937-2007
2006
- Professor Terry Coakley
1940-2006 - Dr Gaynor Davies
1967-2006 - Sheila Foley
1950-2006 - Dr Timothy Griffiths
1957-2006 - Dr Geoff Newman
1943-2006 - Professor Hadyn Ellis
1945-2006
2005
- Remo Catani
1938-2005 - Professor Richard Whipp
1954-2005