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Obituaries

Sir John Templeton

Sir John Templeton

Successful investor who devoted his wealth to philanthropic causes, notably the annual prize which bears his name

Sir Dennis Weatherstone

Leading British banker who ran J P Morgan and persuaded US authorities to relax banking constraints

Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony Troup

Vice-Admiral Sir Anthony Troup

Wartime submariner decorated for battles beneath the waves in the Mediterranean and Far East during the Second World War

Pat Whitney

Falkland Islander who helped to keep British troops supplied with ammunition at the Battle of Mount Longdon in June 1982

Ethne Rudd

Secretary of the Kensington Society, who embarked on a campaign to stop the Diana Memorial Gardens in its tracks

Michael Marland

Inspiring teacher who championed the comprehensive ideal and was founding head of North Westminster Community School

Professor Mark Sacks

Philosopher whose concern with the play between the real and the fictional took him to other disciplines for inspiration

Clay Felker

Editor whose New York magazine caught the iconoclastic tone of its city

Glencairn Balfour-Paul

Spirited British ambassador who had a brush with Saddam Hussein and wrote about the end of empire in the Middle East

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Algis Budrys

Lithuanian-born American writer of well-regarded sci-fi stories and novels

Vladimir Vinogradov

Founder of Russia’s largest private bank and once the nation’s 12th richest man who lost everything in the financial crisis of 1998

Elizabeth Spriggs

Versatile character actress who first blossomed with the Royal Shakespeare Company and won acclaim for her television roles

Sir Charles Wheeler

Veteran BBC foreign correspondent who simply revelled in his work and was at his most masterly during the Watergate scandal

Samuel Katz

Jewish right-wing ideologue who said Israel was too soft

Thich Huyen Quang

Buddhist patriarch who challenged Vietnam’s Government over human rights and religious freedom and suffered internal exile

Domenico Chiarello

Italian veteran of the Frist World War who fought in the Julian Alps counter-offensive against the Austria-Hungary armies

Harry Ridley

Sheep farmer whose innovative ideas have been widely followed

Geoffrey Cheney

Surgeon who removed a bullet from the face of an African war orphan

David Urquhart

Consultant orthopaedic surgeon at St Thomas’ Hospital

J. R. Simplot

Billionaire who earned his fortune from supplying frozen chips to McDonald’s

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Jesse Helms

Right-wing Republican senator who opposed social progress in the US and supported dictatorships abroad

Clive Hornby

Actor who played Jack Sugden in Emmerdale, the soap opera's longest-serving member

Lord Tweedsmuir

Novelist who showed himself to have inherited the writerly skills of his father, John Buchan

Bruce Sayers

A leading research scientist who was known as the father of the field of biomedical signal processing

General Sir Francis Hassett

Soldier who won a desperate victory over the Chinese during the Korean War and rose to command Australia’s defence forces

Squadron Leader Larry Curtis

Veteran of 617 Squadron who flew as its signals leader on some of its most celebrated ‘ops’ including the sinking of the Tirpitz

Sir Peter Kemp

Reforming civil servant who sought to bring the modern efficiencies of the private sector to Whitehall

Robert Harling

Typographic designer whose vision led to the creation of a range of books and journals which were ahead of their time

Lenka Reinerova

Lenka Reinerova

Czech writer who endured jail and exile to become a guardian of the memory of Prague’s vanished German literary culture

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw

Chief of Staff of the Indian Army that defeated Pakistan in the 1971 war and created Bangladesh

Albert Cossery

Adoptive Parisian writer who elevated idleness to an art form while slowly composing slender volumes about his native Cairo

Professor Dennis Anderson

Key scientist in field of energy and the environment, recently contributing to the Stern review on climate change economics