Re: Obituaries

[Sampanviking]

Just heard that Tim Brooke-Tailor has died due to the virus.

Very sad news as I was a huge Goodies fan, back in the day.

[johnofgwent]

Sadly, he's not as well known as the psychos he put away...

Among today's population, sadly so

[patman post]

Nipper of the Yard

The detective Len 'Nipper' Read who put the Kray twins away has died at the age of 95 — 31 March 1925 to 7 April 2020.  

Read was a Detective Superintendent in the Metropolitan Police and is widely credited for arresting Ronnie and Reggie Kray. Sadly, he's not as well known as the psychos he put away...

[papasmurf]

I am surprised given his hedonistic lifestyle he lasted as long as he did:-



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-52173794">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-52173794



Coronavirus: Lord Bath dies after contracting Covid-19

34 minutes ago



Alexander George Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath, was born on 6 May in 1932 and grew up in his family's home at Longleat, near Warminster in Wiltshire.



He was known for his flamboyant style of dress and for having relationships with women he often referred to as his "wifelets".

[papasmurf]

Dr Heather Couper Astronomer Dies aged 70:-



More at link:-



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51562165">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51562165



Broadcaster and astronomer Heather Couper has died at the age of 70.



Dr Couper appeared on the BBC's Blue Peter and The Sky At Night programmes, as well as presenting and producing acclaimed science documentaries.



She also hosted radio series including the BBC World Service's long-running Seeing Stars and BBC Radio 4's Cosmic Quest and Starwatch.



Professor Brian Cox said "she was one of the pioneers in bringing astronomy to everyone, including me".

[Baron von Lotsov]

Very sadly Mr Weatherall has died at the age of 56.



Who was he and what did he do?



This should explain it.

[johnofgwent]

I saw his passing reported on what I'd call a veterans forum yesterday. Truly the shit he got up to would just not be allowed today

[papasmurf]

Mercenary 'Mad Mike' Hoare dies aged 100.



Frankly how he got to 100 years old without being assassinated is a mystery.



More at link:-



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51352075">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-51352075



Michael "Mad Mike" Hoare, widely considered the world's best known mercenary, has died aged 100.

Born in India to Irish parents, he led campaigns in the Congo in the 1960s that earned him fame at the time, and a controversial legacy years later.

His career reached an embarrassing end in 1981, when he was jailed for leading a failed coup in the Seychelles.

Mr Hoare's son, Chris Hoare, said in a statement that his father died in a care facility in Durban, South Africa.

"Mike Hoare lived by the philosophy that you get more out of life by living dangerously, so it is all the more remarkable that he lived more than 100 years," he said.

[Baron von Lotsov]

Sir Michael Atiyah  22 April 1929 – 11 January 2019



This chap has been one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century.

Atiyah's mathematical collaborators included Raoul Bott, Friedrich Hirzebruch[9] and Isadore Singer, and his students included Graeme Segal, Nigel Hitchin and Simon Donaldson. Together with Hirzebruch, he laid the foundations for topological K-theory, an important tool in algebraic topology, which, informally speaking, describes ways in which spaces can be twisted. His best known result, the Atiyah–Singer index theorem, was proved with Singer in 1963 and is used in counting the number of independent solutions to differential equations. Some of his more recent work was inspired by theoretical physics, in particular instantons and monopoles, which are responsible for some subtle corrections in quantum field theory. He was awarded the Fields Medal in 1966 and the Abel Prize in 2004.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Atiyah



and he was one of us lot, born in London, but was Egyptian.

[cromwell]

From Norwich it's the sale of the century

Good innings mind but Nicholas Parsons is no more

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023">//https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51278023

[Baron von Lotsov]

And this bit is from him as well.

This business of constantly manufacturing thought crimes is part of the way that is being used to silence people who are conservative,

OK, the Conservative Party wants to run away from those people but in doing so, it is running away from its own voters.

The last bit is very prophetic, since they appeared to have gone for the voter rather than what the whingers want on the BBC, and it worked. He was subsequently reinstated.

[Baron von Lotsov]

I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken but reasonable in my view

And there has been throughout this country and throughout Europe, in my view, an attempt to silence the conservative voice. We get identified, caricatured and demonised and made to look like we are some kind of sinister fascist, racist kind of people.



As soon as the Conservative Party sees one of us being demonised in this way, they rush to disassociate themselves from us.

- Sir Roger Scruton Aril 2019

[Barry]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton">Roger Scruton

- was an English philosopher and writer who specialised in aesthetics and political philosophy, particularly in the furtherance of traditionalist conservative views.

Died yesterday.

[cromwell]

Martin Peters https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50880336">//https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/50880336

[Churchill]

For those of a certain age who remember him Kenny Lynch singer and actor has died aged 81 years