Obituaries and tributes
Here we commemorate and celebrate the lives of alumni and friends of the º£½ÇÉçÇø who are no longer with us.
2025
2024
2023
Professor Graham J Bailey - Former Member of Staff
Dr Eric and Mrs Winifred Bateson - Alumni and Friends of the º£½ÇÉçÇø
Dr John Beech - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Dr Geoffrey Cope - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
George Frederick Lindop, MBE - Former Member of Staff
Eugene Reynolds - Alumnus and Friend of the º£½ÇÉçÇø
Dr Gwyn Rowley - Former Member of Staff
Timothy Shone - Friend of the º£½ÇÉçÇø
Emeritus Professor Peter Bryan Warr - Former Member of Staff
2022
Emeritus Professor Neil Atherton
Dr Roger George Baxter - Alumnus
Anthony Bennett - Former Member of Staff
Dr Gordon W Bridge, OBE - Honorary Graduate
David J A Clines - Former Member of Staff
Dorothy Freeman - Former Member of Staff
Professor Geoffrey Greenwood - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Dr Peter William Lucas - Alumnus
Professor Peter Maitlis, FRS - Former Member of Staff
Christine Mullan - Former Member of Staff
Professor Gabriel Oladipo Oluwadare - Alumnus
2021
Peter Alfred Barrett - Alumnus
Dr John Llewellyn Evans - Alumnus
Clive Hudson - Former Member of Staff
Professor Frank R Jones - Former Member of Staff
Deacon Samuel Gbadegeshin Laosebikan - Alumnus
Peter Wilton Lee - Former Pro-Chancellor
Professor Margaret Llewelyn - Former Member of Staff
Emeritus Professor Robert Michael 'Bob' Loynes - Former Member of Staff
Dr John Molyneux - Former Member of Staff
2020
2019
2018
2017
Allan Barnes - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Professor Max Blythe - Alumnus
Bob Brighton - Friend of the º£½ÇÉçÇø
Professor Edward 'Teddy' Garden - Former Member of Staff
Professor John Lakey - Alumnus
Arthur John Earnest Lello - Alumnus
Professor Geoffrey Sims - Former Vice-Chancellor
2016
Gwendolyn Bridges - Friend of the º£½ÇÉçÇø
Peter William Doughty - Alumnus
Emeritus Professor J Cheryl Exum - Former Member of Staff
Professor Tom and Mrs Joan Flett - Former Member of Staff and Friends of the º£½ÇÉçÇø
Angela Goodwill (nee Skeens) - Alumna
Professor Stan Gregory - Former Member of Staff
David John Henderson - Alumnus
Professor Sir Harry Kroto - Alumnus
Dr James Montague Lewis - Alumnus
Lucy Mitchell - Former Member of Staff
2015
2014
Professor Frank Benson - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Professor Rob Bradgate - Former Member of Staff
Professor David Clifford Brown - Alumnus
Philip Lewys Burkinshaw, OBE - Alumnus
Pamela Burnip Mann, MBE - Alumna
Alan William Postlethwaite - Alumnus
Professor Eric Sainsbury - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
Many of these obituaries and tributes have been submitted by alumni and friends of the º£½ÇÉçÇø.
If you would like to submit an obituary for an alumnus or former member of staff for inclusion on this webpage, please email alumni@sheffield.ac.uk.