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