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