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