AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar2 hours agoJohn Farrant, editor of Poultry World in the salmonella crisis and National Hunt jockey – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesJohn Farrant, who has died aged 85, was the long-serving editor of Poultry World who battled to save egg farmers from annihilation after Edwina Currie’s 1988 claim that “most of the egg production in this country, sadly, is now infected with salmonella”. The monthly magazine had been covering the …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar7 hours agoSir Ian Stoutzker, philanthropist who brought live classical music to a wider audience – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesSir Ian Stoutzker, who has died aged 95, was one of Britain’s leading musical philanthropists as a patron of orchestras, conservatoires and young musicians, and as co-founder, with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, of the charity Live Music Now. Stoutzker was himself a gifted and elegant musician, who …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar23 hours agoDiana Edwards-Jones, mistress of the control room at ITN in its formative years – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesDiana Edwards-Jones, who has died aged 91, began her career as a £10-a-week studio assistant at the newly founded Independent Television News in 1955 and rose rapidly to become ITN’s head of programme directors in the 1970s. During that time she became “legendary”, as the newsreader Reginald …
AvatarThe Telegraph1 day agoRon Baynham, England’s oldest surviving international footballer – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesRon Baynham, who has died aged 94, was England’s oldest surviving international footballer; brave and an expert handler of crosses, he also turned out for Luton in the 1959 FA Cup final. Ronald Leslie Baynham was born in Birmingham on June 10 1929 to Charles and Lily, née Burton. Cricket was his …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar1 day agoTone Vigeland, Norwegian jewellery designer and sculptor inspired by nature and landscape – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesTone Vigeland, who has died aged 85, was a Norwegian jewellery designer, silversmith and sculptor whose work ranged from minimalist bracelets and necklaces inspired by nature and avidly collected by celebrities such as such as Marianne Faithfull, to monumental pieces of public sculpture that sat …
AvatarThe Telegraph2 days agoWillie Limond, popular boxer who won British, Commonwealth and European titles – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesWillie Limond, the Glaswegian former British and Commonwealth super-lightweight champion who has died aged 45, had 48 professional fights spanning a quarter of a century; yet one of Scotland’s most popular boxers will be best remembered for two of the few fights he lost: his tremendous battle with …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar2 days agoGaetano Pesce, radical furniture designer behind the Sixties feminist chair ‘La Mamma’ – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesGaetano Pesce, who has died aged 84, was a flamboyant furniture designer and architect who rejected the machine-tooled perfection of International Modernism and embraced instead the happy accident, in candy-coloured gloops of resin and foam. Inspired by Pop Art, he was not afraid to make objects …
AvatarThe Telegraph2 days agoDerek Underwood, often unplayable spin bowler regarded as one of England’s finest – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesDerek Underwood, the Kent and England cricketer, who has died aged 78, took 297 wickets in his 86 Tests, more than any other English spinner. His special skill was his ability to bowl left-arm spin at near-medium pace. This could make him virtually unplayable on damp or drying wickets. England, it …
AvatarThe Telegraph2 days agoJohn Sinclair, political activist whose 10-year jail sentence galvanised John Lennon – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesJohn Sinclair, who has died aged 82, was a writer and activist who managed the radical rockers from Detroit, MC5; in 1969 he was sentenced to 10 years in jail for offering two joints to an undercover policewoman, and his incarceration led John Lennon to compose a protest song in his honour: “Was he …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar3 days agoLord Rosser, trade unionist who negotiated the fallout from British Rail’s privatisation – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesLord Rosser, who has died aged 79, was general secretary of the Transport Salaried Staffs Association, the mainly railway clerical union, from 1989 to 2004; a key figure on the Labour Party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) and ultimately its chairman; and since 2004 a life peer. Leading the …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar3 days agoRoberto Cavalli, fashion designer nicknamed the ‘Leopard King’ who embodied 2000s bling – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesRoberto Cavalli, who has died aged 83, was the maximalist Italian fashion designer known as the “Leopard King”, who unleashed on the world his fever dream of exotic animal prints, skintight sandblasted jeans and gravity-defying dresses. Propelled to fame in the 1970s by the patronage of Sophia …
AvatarThe TelegraphAvatarAvatar4 days agoEric Moody, British Airways pilot who kept his cool when an ash cloud cut all four engines – obituaryThe Telegraph - Telegraph ObituariesEric Moody, who has died aged 82, successfully extricated a British Airways Boeing 747 from the jaws of disaster in 1982. The outstanding performance of Moody and his crew – whose “airmanship”, he insisted, had saved the day – made headlines, and the incident had a lasting impact on airline safety …