Category: Obituaries 2025

The field marshal attending a parade at Sandhurst in 2013 — complete with baton Since his days in Aden with the SAS, Charles Guthrie liked to operate behind enemy lines. In April 1997, when even John Major believed he would lose...

Tribute written by Nicola Lacey and Emily Jackson for the LSE Law School It is with profound sadness that the Law School announces the sudden death of our beloved colleague Conor Gearty.   Conor joined LSE as...

A glance at James’s early career path shows him to belong to the true aristocracy of the European legal world: A scholar reading law at Brasenose College, Oxford; a Middle Temple Bristow scholarship to the Court of Justice in...

For a country with a population of just five million, New Zealand produces a disproportionately large number of gifted jurists, many of whom find their way to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. One such was Tony Smith, whose...

‘Does classical music have to be entirely serious?’ was the title of a lecture that Alfred Brendel gave at Darwin College, Cambridge, in 1984. It was a startling choice of subject for a man who was widely considered to be the...

“Fair winds and following seas” A luminous presence has departed our lives. This is a dreaded day, when I must encapsulate a vast presence in a few words. Reducing it to its core, Tim’s life was characterised by four...

The appointment of a top British barrister as a High Court Judge in Hong Kong raised a few eyebrows in 1993, a time when the judiciary was being encouraged to rely less on overseas talent. But Michael Stuart-Moore, arriving four...

I cannot now remember exactly when I met Marilynne, but I do know it was not long after I joined the Department of Health and Social Security in 1982, and it was at a party. Her reputation had preceded her, and she turned...

I was honoured to be invited to make this tribute to Issy, my dear friend or as she would describe any communication between us while we had daughters at school together, a tribute ‘mum to mum’. Issy was one of five...

Master Gerard Ryan and Master Sheila Cameron married in Middle Temple Church on Saturday, 3 December 1960. They lived in 5 Pump Court so that Sheila could continue her work as soon as possible after her two sons were born,...