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Obituaries 2024

We are sad to report the passing of LSE alumni and staff in 2024. 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. 

1959 and earlier

Graham B Bannock, BSc Economics 1955
Sir Anthony Battishill GCB, 
Bsc Economics 1958
Sheila Bennett MBE, BSc Sociology 1949, DIP 1976
Professor Richard J Briston, BSc Accounting and Finance 1958
Garrettson Dulin,
BSc Economics 1949
Trevor Cyril Fenemore-Jones, BSc 1952
Ian Howden-Simpson MBE, BSc Geography 1957
William J Jordan, BSc 1959
Hella Pick, BSc Government 1947, Obituary
Dr Philip Wayland Porter, PhD 1957, Obituary
Edith M Riley, BA Geography 1943, Obituary
Philip J Sadler, BSc Sociology 1953, Obituary
Cerdic A Warrillow, BSc Government 1958

1960-1969

Dr Roy Battersby, PhD 1960, Obituary
Ed Broadbent. RFEE Government 1963
Hugh L Butcher,
BSc Economics 1965, MSc Sociology 1966
Leslie A Ferber, BSc International Relations 1968
Dr Harold E Glass (MSc Government 1969), Obituary
John R B King,
BSc Economics 1964
David P Safir, BSc Economics 1969, MSc Economics 1970
Peter E Strauss, CF 1961, Obituary
Alan Torevell, BSc Economics 1961, Obituary
Roy M Trinder, BSc Economics 1963

 

1970-1979

Honorable Judge Thomas M Ammons III, LLM Law 1970, Obituary
Donald Dinan, LLM Law 1975
Lawrence A Elege, DIP International Relations 1972
Dr Kathleen O'Higgins MSc Sociology 1979
Professor Dan Korn, MPhil 1976, PhD Government 1985, Obituary
Pauline S Lester, DSS Social Policy & Admin 1971
Brian M Mitchell,
LLM Law 1977
Dorothy E Pettitt, DIP Social Work Studies 1971
Anne S Sheddick, MSc Sociology 1970
Abu K Shuluwa,
DIP Social Planning 1976, Obituary
Dr Benjamin P A Warthen, General Course 1970, Obituary
Peter B Weir,
LLM Law 1977
John A Zylinski, 
BSc 1974, Obituary

1980-1989

Professor Terence J Gygar, RFEE Government 1988
Anthony H Michaelson-Yeates, LLB Law 1984
Kathy Shandling, MSc Government 1983
Pauline Tobine,
MSc Industrial Relations 1982
Robert EJ Watkins, BSc Government 1987, Obituary

1990-1999

Brigadier Israel K Amoah, BSc Social Policy and Admin 1990
Marieke M D Boersen-Drenth,
General Course Law 1993
Major David A Brockhurst,
LLB Law 1994
Dr Richard E Caruso,
MPhil Industrial Relations 1990
Asli Girgin (née Kaymakçalan), MSc Politics of the World Economy 1995, Obituary, Picture
Beatriz P K Meldrum, LLM Law 1997
Tatiana Melguizo, MSC Social Policy and Admin 1995, Obituary
Daniel Navarro, MSc International Relations 1993
Caroline M Welch, BSc Industrial Relations 1991, MSc Industrial Relations 1993

2000-2009

2010-2019

 Richard T Heafield, BSc Sociology 2011, Obituary

2020-2029

 

Staff

 Professor Francis R Bridge, Obituary