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Obituaries 2015

We are sad to report the passing of LSE alumni and staff in 2015. Alumni are listed in alphabetical order in the decade they received their first degree at LSE. Where available, we have included a link to online obituaries. 

1949 and earlier

George Currie, BSc Statistics and Maths 1949, General Course 1955
Hugo De Vries, BCOM 1948
Alfred Dalton, MSCEC 1948
Rowena Ellis, BSc Economics 1946
Kenneth D Gay, BSc Government 1944 
A Gherson, BSc International Relations 1949, PhD International Relations 1956
Laura Howe, BSc Sociology 1948
Bryan Jackson, BSc International Relations 1949
Jean King, Social Policy and Administration 1944
Mark Littman QC, BSc Economics 1939
Jean Llewellyn, CSSC Social Policy and Administration 1941
Ambassador the Honourable Donald Mills, BSc Demography 1947
Lee Kuan Yew, 1946
Winifred Potter, DSSC Sociology 1945​
Dr Richard Splane,​ CSSA 1947
Bronia Steiner, BSc Economics 1945
Rosemary Stewart, MSc Sociology, 1949
Michael Wilson, BSc 1948
Joyce Young, BSc Economics 1948 

1950-1959

Robert Andry, PhD 1955
Professor Frank Anton, BSc Geography 1950
Rt Hon Lord Roy Mason of Barnsley, Certificate in Trade Union Studies 1951
Alan Beattie, BSc 1959
Dr Michael Blunt, BSc Government 1953, PhD Government 1957
Brian Cookson, LLB 1953 The Telegraph 
Joy Dunkerley, BSc Economics 1953
Professor Emeritus Leroy Dunn, PhD 1955
Mary Gibbons, CSSC Social Policy and Administration 1953
David Cairns, BSc Statistics & Mathematics 1953
Ian Carr, BSc Geography 1959
Patricia Chapman, 1958
Aubrey Dickman, 1957
Joy Dunkerley (nee Love), BSc Econ 1953
Dr Judith Ellis, MSc Sociology 1959
Professor William Fishman, BSc Economics 1958
Eileen Geary, BSc Economics 1956
Graham Gooding, BSc 1957
Syed Husain, BSc Economics 1956
Reverend Michael Hensman, BSc Sociology 1957
Denis K. Kearsley, BSc 1950
Professor Jack Kitchen, BSc Economics 1951
Judith Lauterpacht, LLB 1958
David Lethbridge, BSc Economics 1958
Alan Manock, BSc Economics 1957
Ron Moody, 1955 Guardian
John Murphy, Diploma Personnel Management 1959
Trevor Nuttall, Economic History 1959
Reese E Palley, 1952
Jacques Parizeau, PhD 1955 BBC
John K Pritchard, BSc Econ History 1959
Sydnor Thompson, 1951
Leonard Tivey, BSc Government 1950
Laurence Turner, BSc Geography 1955
Edward Rashley, BSc Government 1959
Gerhardt Rittermann, BSc 1950
Charles Regan, BSc Government 1950
Gerhardt Ritterman, BSc 1950
Richard Sager, BSc 1958
Professor Anthony Scott, PhD Economics 1953
Richard Skinner, BSc Accounting and Finance 1952 
Professor Asher Tropp, BSc Sociology 1951, PhD Sociology 1954
Michael Webb, BSc 1959

1960-1969

Jacques Bongomo Koni Botoke, RFEE 1965
Charles Brozoska, RFEE 1966
Reverend Dr C M Brown, BSc Geography 1962, MSCEC Geography 1965
Pamela Brighton, BSc Economics 1967, Obituary
Margaret Clapham, CMH Sociology 1960 
Nancy Davey, BA International History 1960
Richard Delbridge, BSc Economics 1963, Obituary
Stewart Dickson, BSc Economics 1963
Roy Easson, BSc Economics 1969
Michael Fletcher, BSc Economics 1964
Martin Forman, BSc Economics 1960
C Beatrice Godwin, DSA Social Policy and Administration 1968, Msc Social Policy and Administration 1971
Omowale A Kuye, OCC Economics 1965, OCC 1966
Portis Hicks, LLB 1964
Stanley McClure, MSc 1960
Rt Hon Michael H. Meacher, MP DSA Social Policy and Administration 1963 BBC Obituary, Independent Obituary
Mahesh Modi, MSc 1960
Barry C Moore, BSc Economics 1965, Obituary
Bella B Mukhoti, PhD 1964
Dr Otto Newman, PhD Sociology 1968
John Owen, BSc Economics 1957, MSc Economics 1961
John Peel, PhD Sociology 1966, Obituary
Brian Porter, BSc International Relations, PhD International Relations 1962 
Edna Rostow, OCC 1960
Joseph Samuels, LLM 1967
Mattigud Satyanarayana, MSc Economics 1968
Daniel Schechter, MSc Political Sociology 1969
Jules Shaffer, PhD 1965 
David Salter, BSc Economics 1967
Peter Sommers, BA Geography 1967
Professor Dufferin, Spafford BSc Economics 1963
Michael Spector, 1966
David Stapleton, CSSA 1956, 1967
Philip Taylor, Bsc Economics 1961 
Neil Thornton, PhD 1969
Eda Topliss, BSc Sociology 1964
Frederick Wagner, RFEE 1966
Canon Barbara Wollaston, BSc Sociology 1964
Sarojini Vittachi, BSc Sociology 1964

1970-1979

Edward Ahern III, 1976
Robert Allen, Stats and Maths 1978
Tomoko Barker, MSc Operational Research 1978
Edward H Bengree Jones, BSc Economics 1971
Keith Bird, MSc 1972 
Eric Carbarns, PhD Social Administration 1977
John Barns, BSc Economics 1978
David Durchfort, General Course 1979
Professor Monoranjan Chakrabarti, MSc Social Policy and Administration 1977
Dr Roger Elbourne, BSc Sociology 1971, PhD Sociology 1973, Obituary
Jill Hartley, BSc 1978
Dr Martin Hill, PhD Anthropology 1972
Roger Jump, 1973
Michael Lemon, PhD 1967, Obituary
Vassiliki Mantzouranis, MSc Economics 1972
Robert A Macdonald, LLM 1973 
Judge Jeremy McMullen QC, MSc Industrial Relations and Personnel Management 1972
John D Newson, MSc Philosophy 1974 
Malcolm Richards, Diploma in Social Policy & Administration 1979
Clifford Spencer, BSc 1976
Nicholas Spurrier, BA 1973, 1974, Obituary
R Stark, RFEE 1973
Jeremy Waddell, LLM 1974
Frank Walker, 1975
Mark White, BA Language Studies 1978
Norman White, BSc Economics 1960, PhD Economics 1974
Kevin Whitmee-Haddock, BA Social Policy & Administration 1969, MPhil Economic History 1970

1980-1989

Dr Martin Birt, MSc Industrial Relations 1980
Michael Devine, MSc International Relations 1985, MPhil/PhD International Relations 1991
Ferdinand Derveld, MSc Economic History 1988
G Burch, MSc Industrial Relations and Personnel Management 1984
Robert J Greenberg, GEN Accounting and Finance 1983 
Anthony Jones, BSc 1981
Mann-Kee Li, BSc Economics 1984
Helen O'Shea, MSc Politics and Government of the UK 1981
Khalil Tayfoor, 1985
Loizos Tofalides, BSc Economics 1981
Guillermo A Villaveces Ronderos, BSc Economics 1983
Rhonda Walker, BSc Economics 1989
Ganga Westwood, PhD Social Administration 1983
Philip Whyte, BSc International Relations 1988, MSc Politics of the World Economy 1989

1990-1999

Toby Brown, BSc Social Policy and Administration 1996 
Martin Hill, PhD Anthropology 1990
Reinhard Klarmann, LLM 1999 
Adrian Morcinek, MSc Social Policy and Administration 1993
George Paton, BSc Social Psychology 1990
Jeanette Sambucci, BSc Social Psychology 1990
Sara Wiseman, BSc 1999, MSc Social Policy and Administration 2005 

2000-2009

Sikha Chhabra, MSc Economics, Obituary
John Erwin, BSc Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management 2007
Graham Facks-Martin, MBE  MSc Social Policy and Administration 2001
Inger Munk, MSc Economics 2002
Ravi Komatireddy, MSc Accounting and Finance 2007
Valentin Ribet, (LLM 2014) LSE Obituary, Guardian Obituary

2010-2019

Joseph Abraham, MSc Mathematics 2011 
Isteaque Ahmed, BSc Accounting and Finance 2011
Trevor Dreyfus, ​MSc International Relations 2011
Wei Du, MSc Management 2014 
Rui Zhang, MSc Econometrics and Mathematical Economics 2012


Staff

Professor Ulrich Beck, Obituary
Irving Brown
Professor Derek Diamond, Obituary
Thomas Horlick-Jones, Obituary
Lord Moser, BSc 1943, Guardian Obituary, Telegraph Obituary
Jane Plimpton Plakias, Obituary
Professor Mike Redmayne
Professor Alice Teichova
Michael J Wise, Department of Geography