Obituaries
- 25 October 2006 Paul Smee, Network Specialist in the University's Information Services, played a crucial role in developing the University's computer network.
- 17 November 2006 Arthur Willis, a Bristol alumnus and former lecturer and reader in the Department of Botany, died in June.
- 17 November 2006 John Barrett embodied everything that is best in a university academic: widely read, welcoming to students, challenging, scholarly, diplomatic, resourceful, and able to contribute original research.
- 25 May 2007 Len Miles, Senior Porter at Canynge Hall, has died after a short illness.
- 26 April 2007 Arthur Milton, Honorary Bristol graduate and veteran of Gloucestershire County Cricket Club, has died aged 79.
- 2 July 2007 Pete Siwiec, a cleaner based in the Medical Building, died suddenly in June. Liz Lynch, Site Services Manager, remembers 'a genuinely kindhearted man'.
- 27 June 2007 Gordon Pavey, Honorary Special Lecturer in Education at the Graduate School of Education, died after a short illness on 8 June.
- 3 November 2006 Professor Sir Philip Randle founded the Department of Biochemistry at Bristol in 1964, building it up into one of the strongest in the UK both in research and teaching.
- 6 September 2006 A personal recollection by Peter Haggett, Emeritus Professor in Urban and Regional Geography in the School of Geographical Sciences
- 27 October 2006 Vera Buret served as librarian at the Department of Music between 1964 and 1968, but her involvement in the life of the University and the city went much further.
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