Obituaries
- 18 May 2021 Gordon Clarke, who retired from the University’s Mechanical Engineering Department in 1994, sadly passed away recently at the age of 93. Colleagues in the School of Civil, Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering (CAME) offer this remembrance.
- 11 June 2021 Phil Gould, Estates Assistant in the Victoria Rooms, passed away earlier this month. Matt Davies and other colleagues offer a remembrance.
- 31 March 2021 Alistair Williams, Research Fellow in the Bristol Medical School, died last autumn. His colleagues in the Diabetes and Metabolism team offer a remembrance.
- 21 April 2021 Dr John Hibberd, who played a major role in the life of the German Department from his arrival in 1963 to his retirement in 2000 and beyond, passed away earlier this month. This appreciation of his life and career as a teacher, translator and researcher also appears on the department's webpages.
- 19 April 2017 Bristol alumnus Tim Pigott-Smith (BA Drama 1967), an acclaimed stage, film and television actor, has died at the age of 70.
- 21 April 2021 John Vincent, Emeritus Professor of History, passed away in March at the age of 83. Professor Ronald Hutton offers a remembrance.
- 25 June 2021 Professor Richard Dixon FRS, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, died on 25 May 2021. Professors Mike Ashfold and Andrew Orr-Ewing offer this appreciation.
- 20 October 2017 Lesley Hart, a Security Officer in the University Security Team (Estates), sadly passed away on 15 October. Simon Ramsden and other colleagues in Security Services offer a tribute.
- 12 September 2017 Peter Skrine, former Professor of German at Bristol, died on 26 May after a lengthy illness. Dr Mark Allinson, Senior Lecturer in the Department of German, offers an appreciation.
- 19 October 2017 Bob Walker, the former head of the Systems Research and Computing Team in IT Services, died on 30 May at the age of 66. Former colleagues pay tribute to his career.
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