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.
2024
- Professor Binglin Zhong
1951-2024 - Gwyn Haydn Rhys
1932-2024 - David English
1950-2024 - Professor Sir Mansel Aylward CB
1942-2024 - Professor Peter Ghazal OBE FMedSci
1961-2024 - Robert van Deursen
1958-2024 - Janet Richards
1947-2024 - Dr Kerry Moore
1978-2024
2023
- Allyson Jayne Capron
1980-2023 - Olaoluwa “Laolu” Abdulrahman Alatise
1995-2023 - Professor Dame Teresa (Terry) Rees FLSW FAcSS
1949-2023 - Sir (Eric) Brian Smith
1933-2023 - Professor Mike Bruford
1963-2023
2022
- Kevin Stagg
1958-2022 - Dr Rachel Coombe
1958-2022 - Professor John Radford
1953-2022 - Professor Dylan M Jones OBE DSc
1948-2022 - Professor Gwynedd O. Pierce
1921-2022
2021
- Dr Philip Buckle
1968-2021 - John Potts
1947-2021 - Professor Brian Joseph Brinkworth CEng FREng FRAeS FIMechE FEI
1932-2021 - Catherine Belsey
1940-2021 - Dr David R Lees
1942-2021 - Helen Ceridwen Saunders
1960-2021 - Professor Humphrey Palmer
1930-2021
2020
- Professor Sir John Meurig Thomas FRS
1932-2020 - Dr Tina Gambling
1970-2020 - Dr Philippa Coales
1959-2020 - Mary Pearce
1949-2020 - Bernard Mallows MBE
1940-2020 - James Young
1950-2020 - Neil Wellard
1957-2020 - Professor John Gwynfor Jones
1936-2020
2019
- Dr Reg Hinkley
1947-2019 - John Lake Moore
1936-2019 - Andrew Belsey
1942-2019 - Professor Barry Wilkinson
1956-2019 - Professor Tom Keenoy
1944-2019
2018
- Malcolm Anderson
1970-2018 - Professor Christopher Hooley FRS
1928-2018 - Professor John Tyrrell
1942-2018 - Michael Durrant
1934-2018 - Professor R. (Bob) F. Churchhouse CBE
1927-2018 - Professor Christopher Peter Morley, BA, DPhil
1957-2018 - Eric Markland
1923-2018 - Professor Paul Bradley
1955-2018 - Dr John Etherington
1937-2018 - Brian Hooper
1954-2018
2017
- Honorary Distinguished Professor David Vernon Morgan
1941-2017 - Sir Donald Walters
1925-2017 - Professor Kenneth Gloag
1960-2017 - Professor David Moffat
1921-2017 - Michael Chiles
1936-2017 - Dr J R (Dick) Dickinson
1952-2017 - Professor Peter Wells CBE
1936-2017 - Professor David Garel Rhys CBE
1940-2017 - Robert Maynard Jones
1929-2017 - Don Barry
1944-2017 - Professor Michael (Mike) Brooks
1936-2017 - Gwyn Ingli James
1928-2017
2016
- Professor Hazel Prichard
1954-2016 - Professor Chris McGuigan
1958-2016 - Professor Julian William Thomas Wimpenny
1936-2016 - Sir Aubrey Fiennes Trotman-Dickenson
1926-2016
2015
- Professor Denis Towill
1933-2015 - Professor Frank Trombley
1947-2015 - Professor Alan Clarke
1963-2015 - Dr Bishnupada Pal Choudhury
1930-2015 - Dr Damian Pryor
1962-2015
2014
- Professor Jonathan Osmond
1953-2014 - Dr Simon Griffey
1958-2014 - Terence Hawkes
1932-2014 - Dr Mark A Jervis
1952-2014 - Peter Thomas
1935-2014 - Jo Smart
1977-2014 - John Frankland Rigby
1933-2014 - Patricia Elsie Davies
1938-2014 - Anne Cluysenaar
1936-2014 - Professor Meirion Wyn Roberts
1931-2014 - Professor Eric Whittle
1927-2014 - Professor Michael O'Hara
1933-2014
2013
- Alexander Michael Davidson
1944-2013 - William H John (Bill)
1923-2013 - Dr Tom Parry Jones
1935-2013 - Professor David R Williams
1940-2013 - Angela Toby
1959-2013
2012
- Sara Cater
1961-2012 - Gordon Irvine
1924-2012 - Professor Michael Stephen Patrick Eastham
1937-2012 - Professor David Michael Rowe
1939-2012 - Professor Alfred Douglas White
1941-2012 - Dr David Bryant
1941-2012 - Dr Francis Biley
1958-2012 - Norman Williams
1939-2012 - Anthony Coxon
1938-2012 - Professor Peter Thomas Haskell
1923-2012 - Professor Jeremy Alden
1943-2012 - Professor Paul Spencer
1935-2012
2011
- Professor John Miller
1900-2011 - Professor Tudor Griffith
1951-2011 - Leon Kane Maguire
1942-2011 - Dr Ivor Harrison
1931-2011 - Dr Katrin Buerger
1978-2011 - Emeritus Professor Frederic J Jones
1925-2011 - Denis Price
1950-2011 - Nathaniel Rowson
1979-2011
2010
- Professor Benjamin Isaac George Barr
1942-2010 - Dr Jennifer Gunning
1944-2010 - Dr Denis D’Auria
1946-2010 - John Kenyon Roberts
1940-2010 - The Rt Hon Lord Bingham of Cornhill
1933-2010 - Professor Nicholas John Fiddian
1948-2010 - Martin Evans
1950-2010
2009
- Sir Bryan Hopkin
1914-2009 - Barbara Anna Geddes
1949-2009 - Professor John Pathy
1923-2009 - Professor Peter Walcot
1931-2009 - Trevor Watkins
1927-2009 - Graham L. Jones
1935-2009 - Lee O'Brien
1961-2009
2008
- Professor Ursula Henriques
1914-2008 - Dr David Kelly
1955-2008 - Alun Hoddinott CBE
1929-2008 - John W. Perkins
1935-2008 - Richard Parfitt
1958-2008 - Sheila Miller
1938-2008 - Alan Stevens
1925-2008 - Charles Elliott
1919-2008
2007
- Professor Ron Edwards
1930-2007 - Robert Atkins
1943-2007 - H Colin Thomas
1947-2007 - Professor Brian Cooke
1920-2007 - Dr. Tom Woollam
1979-2007 - Professor John Bates
1924-2007 - Professor Stephen Crow
1934-2007 - Michael Quinn
1921-2007 - Dr. Christopher Powell
1937-2007 - Professor Howard Jones
1918-2007 - Professor John Percival
1937-2007 - Ward, Paul
1968-2007 - Dr James Thomas
1971-2007
2006
- Dr Geoff Newman
1943-2006 - Dr Gaynor Davies
1967-2006 - Professor Hadyn Ellis
1945-2006 - Sheila Foley
1950-2006 - Dr Timothy Griffiths
1957-2006 - Professor Terry Coakley
1940-2006
2005
- Professor Richard Whipp
1954-2005 - Remo Catani
1938-2005