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
- Professor Tom Keenoy
1944-2019 - Professor Barry Wilkinson
1956-2019
2018
- Professor John Tyrrell
1942-2018 - Professor Paul Bradley
1955-2018 - Professor Christopher Peter Morley, BA, DPhil
1957-2018 - Dr John Etherington
1937-2018 - Malcolm Anderson
1970-2018 - Professor R. (Bob) F. Churchhouse CBE
1927-2018 - Eric Markland
1923-2018 - Professor Christopher Hooley FRS
1928-2018 - Michael Durrant
1934-2018
2017
- Robert Maynard Jones
1929-2017 - 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 - Professor David Moffat
1921-2017 - Professor David Garel Rhys CBE
1940-2017 - Professor Peter Wells CBE
1936-2017 - Professor Michael (Mike) Brooks
1936-2017 - Don Barry
1944-2017
2016
- Professor Julian William Thomas Wimpenny
1936-2016 - Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson
1926-2016 - Professor Chris McGuigan
1958-2016 - Professor Hazel Prichard
1954-2016
2015
- Professor Alan Clarke
1963-2015 - Professor Denis Towill
1933-2015 - Professor Frank Trombley
1947-2015 - Dr Damian Pryor
1962-2015 - Dr Bishnupada Pal Choudhury
1930-2015
2014
- Professor Jonathan Osmond
1953-2014 - Professor Michael O'Hara
1933-2014 - Dr Mark A Jervis
1952-2014 - Professor Meirion Wyn Roberts
1931-2014 - Anne Cluysenaar
1936-2014 - Dr Simon Griffey
1958-2014 - Professor Eric Whittle
1927-2014 - Jo Smart
1977-2014 - John Frankland Rigby
1933-2014 - Terence Hawkes
1932-2014 - Patricia Elsie Davies
1938-2014
2013
- Dr Tom Parry Jones
1935-2013 - William H John (Bill)
1923-2013 - Angela Toby
1959-2013 - Professor David R Williams
1940-2013 - Alexander Michael Davidson
1944-2013
2012
- Dr Francis Biley
1958-2012 - Professor Peter Thomas Haskell
1923-2012 - Anthony Coxon
1938-2012 - Norman Williams
1939-2012 - Dr David Bryant
1941-2012 - Professor Alfred Douglas White
1941-2012 - Professor Paul Spencer
1935-2012 - Sara Cater
1961-2012 - Professor Jeremy Alden
1943-2012 - Professor David Michael Rowe
1939-2012 - Gordon Irvine
1924-2012 - Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham
1937-2012
2011
- Denis Price
1950-2011 - Professor John Miller
1900-2011 - Professor Tudor Griffith
1951-2011 - Dr Katrin Buerger
1978-2011 - Emeritus Professor Frederic J Jones
1925-2011 - Leon Kane Maguire
1942-2011 - Nathaniel Rowson
1979-2011 - Dr Ivor Harrison
1931-2011
2010
- Martin Evans
1950-2010 - Professor Nicholas John Fiddian
1948-2010 - Dr Jennifer Gunning
1944-2010 - John Kenyon Roberts
1940-2010 - Dr Denis D’Auria
1946-2010 - Professor Benjamin Isaac George Barr
1942-2010 - The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill
1933-2010
2009
- Barbara Anna Geddes
1949-2009 - Lee O'Brien
1961-2009 - Professor John Pathy
1923-2009 - Trevor Watkins
1927-2009 - Graham L. Jones
1935-2009 - Sir Bryan Hopkin
1914-2009 - Professor Peter Walcot
1931-2009
2008
- Richard Parfitt
1958-2008 - John W. Perkins
1935-2008 - Dr David Kelly
1955-2008 - Charles Elliott
1919-2008 - Alun Hoddinott CBE
1929-2008 - Professor Ursula Henriques
1914-2008 - Alan Stevens
1925-2008 - Sheila Miller
1938-2008
2007
- Professor Brian Cooke
1920-2007 - Michael Quinn
1921-2007 - Dr James Thomas
1971-2007 - Professor John Bates
1924-2007 - Professor Howard Jones
1918-2007 - Ward, Paul
1968-2007 - Professor Ron Edwards
1930-2007 - Professor John Percival
1937-2007 - 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