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  • Professor Peter Haggett, 1933-2025 13 March 2025 Peter Haggett, Professor of Urban and Regional Geography, passed away on 9 February at the age of 92. His colleagues and former students in the School of Geographical Sciences pay tribute to one of the discipline’s most distinguished scholars and a former Acting Vice-Chancellor of this University.
  • Jeremy Nicholls, 1958-2022 8 April 2022 Jeremy (Jerry) Nicholls, a cleaner in the Site Services team in the Physics Building, passed away suddenly on 21 March. Sally Hemmings and other colleagues offer some remembrances of Jerry.
  • Nick Talbot, 1977-2014 17 December 2014 Nick Talbot, a Bristol alumnus whose eclectic work as an experimental, alt-rock musician under the name Gravenhurst earned him an international reputation, has died at the age of 37.
  • Dr David Emery, 1961-2022 20 April 2022 Dr David Emery, Research Fellow ³Ô¹ÏÍø Dental School, passed away on 20 March. His colleagues Shelley Allen-Birt and Nicola West offer a remembrance.
  • Rowland Morgan, 1934-2014 15 December 2014 Professor David Blockley remembers Rowland Morgan, Senior Lecturer in Civil Engineering, who died in July.
  • Sheena Heyman, 1938-2014 9 December 2014 Sheena Heyman, a cleaner based at Old Park Hill from 1996 to 2004, has died. Liz Lynch, Site Services Manager, offers an appreciation.
  • Cynthia Galliers, 1939-2022 5 May 2022 Cynthia Galliers, former assistant to the Graduate Secretary and administrator of PhD graduate teaching and research programmes in the School for Policy Studies, passed away in early March. Her colleague Randall Smith offers a remembrance.
  • Professor John Macdonald, 1968-2022 15 June 2022 John Macdonald, Professor of Structural Dynamics in the Department of Civil Engineering, died suddenly on 5 March at the age of 53. His colleague, Emeritus Professor Colin Taylor, offers a remembrance.
  • Neil Burnie MRCVS, 1954-2014 26 November 2014 Bristol alumnus Neil Burnie (BVSc 1977), an internationally renowned vet and founder of the Bermuda Shark Project, died earlier this month in a tragic marine accident. His friend Robin Revell pays tribute to ‘the most unusual of veterinary surgeons’.
  • Ivor Victor Franklin, 1925-2022 20 May 2022 Ivor Franklin, a much loved and respected member of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, passed away in March this year. His friends and colleagues Sandy Mitchell and Steve Burrow offer a remembrance.

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