Mark Julian Lycett (BSc Government and History 1978) went on to gain professional qualifications, but preferred to utilise his skills for details and understanding of complex issues, working in local authority housing in Tower Hamlets and Kingston upon Thames.
He had the most prodigious memory for facts, faces, details, places, people and how they all fit together – their connections and relationships. He was part of a group of 10 alumni, including two professors of politics, Kevin Theakston and Gurharpal Singh, who first met at Passfield Hall and who remained good friends, and he would accurately put them right on every subject whenever they met. He was centre stage in the arrangements for a visit to Passfield Hall on the 40th anniversary of this group of friends first meeting there as Freshers – and indeed he is in the centre of the attached photo of that event holding the “Passfield Hall” notice.
While many of his group of friends were left-wing revolutionaries, in varying degrees, as you would expect of LSE students in the 1970s, Mark remained unfashionably conservative. He was very much his own man. He leaves a widow, Ya, and stepson, Damm.