Alumni Obituaries
Here we commemorate and celebrate the lives of alumni and friends of the University who are no longer with us.
Below you’ll find the obituaries of those we’ve lost in the last twelve months. We update this list monthly. To submit an obituary for a graduate or former member of staff, please email advancement@ncl.ac.uk
| Title | Name | Course title | Degree | Class of |
| Mrs | Thelma Allen | 1970 | ||
| Dr | Margaret A Appleby DL | MBBS | MBBS | 1965 |
| Dr | Hon DLitt | 1988 | ||
| Lord | Hon DCL | 1992 | ||
| Miss | Deborah R Bell | Museum Studies | MA | 2017 |
| Mr | Christopher M Benarr | Politics | BA (Hons) | 2002 |
| Dr | Anthony S Binks | MBBS | MBBS | 1965 |
| Mr | Agricultural Economics | BSc | 1967 | |
| Mr | Nigel T Brereton | Town & Country Planning | BA (Hons) | 1965 |
| Dr | Michael Bryson | MBBS | MBBS | 1965 |
| Dr | Pamela Buck | MBBS | MBBS | 1970 |
| Dr | Richard M Butler | BDS | BDS | 1968 |
| Dr | Alan Cartledge | Chemical Engineering | BSc | 1974 |
| Ms | Margaret Chittick | Latin & French | BA (Hons); PGCE | 1963; 1994 |
| Dr | Raymond P Christie | MBBS | MBBS | 1962 |
| Mr | Christopher W Davies | MSc | 1993 | |
| Dr | Xu Deng | PhD | 2017 | |
| Mr | Sidney Dodd | Politics | MPhil | 1996 |
| Mrs | Margaret E Downing | Law | LLB | 1976 |
| Dorothy Duffell | Education | Hon BEd | 2025 | |
| Emeritus Professor | Barbara W Durkacz | |||
| Mr | Geoffrey Ellin | Shipbuilding & Naval Architecture | BSc | 1961 |
| Dr | Charles (Gavin) Fairpo | BDS | BDS | 1959 |
| Sir | Architecture | BA (Hons), Hon DCL | 1961, 2000 | |
| Dr | Jeremy G Feggetter TD DL | MBBS | MBBS | 1966 |
| Emeritus Professor | ||||
| Professor | Hon DSc | 2017 | ||
| Emeritus Professor | John B Harris | |||
| Mr | Brian Helm | Civil Engineering; Applied Science | BSc; MSc | 1957; 1960 |
| Mr | French | BA (Hons) | 1972 | |
| Dr | John W Kershaw | |||
| Dr | Herbert "Natural" Langdon | Media, Culture and Heritage | PhD | 2025 |
| Emeritus Professor | Ruth Lesser | Speech; Psychology | BSc; PhD | 1971; 1976 |
| Dr | David T Lord | MBBS | MBBS | 1967 |
| Dr | Geography | BSc, PhD | 1955, 1958 | |
| Mr | Ray Mackintosh | |||
| Dr | ||||
| Mr | Paul F Miller | Agriculture | BSc | 1986 |
| Mr | Jonathan D Morley | Naval Architecture and Shipbuilding | BSc | 1981 |
| Mr | Ian J Paterson | Law | LLB | 1959 |
| Mr | David W Plevin | Zoology | BSc | 1967 |
| Mr | Allan W Reid | Town and Country Planning | Dip | 1971 |
| Mr | Robert Richardson | Economics | BA (Hons) | 1953 |
| Emeritus Professor | MBBS | MBBS | ||
| Mr | Fine Art | BA (Hons) | 1962 | |
| Dr | Christopher J Sier | Marine Science | PhD | 1998 |
| Mr | John Telfer | Crop Production | BSc | 1960 |
| Dr | John M Wardell | Dental Surgery | BDS | 1970 |
| Mr | Law | LLB | 1990 | |
| Dr | Brian Wheatley | MBBS | MBBS | 1962 |
| Emeritus Professor | James R White | |||
| Emeritus Professor | Kenneth G Willis | Philosophy | PhD | 1971 |
| Mr | James R Wright CBE DL | Hon DCL | 2001 |
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