Obituaries and tributes
Here we commemorate and celebrate the lives of alumni and friends of the University who are no longer with us.
2025
2024
2023
Professor Graham J Bailey - Former Member of Staff
Dr Eric and Mrs Winifred Bateson - Alumni and Friends of the University
Dr John Beech - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Dr Geoffrey Cope - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
George Frederick Lindop, MBE - Former Member of Staff
Eugene Reynolds - Alumnus and Friend of the University
Dr Gwyn Rowley - Former Member of Staff
Timothy Shone - Friend of the University
Emeritus Professor Peter Bryan Warr - Former Member of Staff
2022
Emeritus Professor Neil Atherton
Dr Roger George Baxter - Alumnus
Anthony Bennett - Former Member of Staff
Dr Gordon W Bridge, OBE - Honorary Graduate
David J A Clines - Former Member of Staff
Dorothy Freeman - Former Member of Staff
Professor Geoffrey Greenwood - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Dr Peter William Lucas - Alumnus
Professor Peter Maitlis, FRS - Former Member of Staff
Christine Mullan - Former Member of Staff
Professor Gabriel Oladipo Oluwadare - Alumnus
2021
Peter Alfred Barrett - Alumnus
Dr John Llewellyn Evans - Alumnus
Clive Hudson - Former Member of Staff
Professor Frank R Jones - Former Member of Staff
Deacon Samuel Gbadegeshin Laosebikan - Alumnus
Peter Wilton Lee - Former Pro-Chancellor
Professor Margaret Llewelyn - Former Member of Staff
Emeritus Professor Robert Michael 'Bob' Loynes - Former Member of Staff
Dr John Molyneux - Former Member of Staff
2020
2019
2018
2017
Allan Barnes - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Professor Max Blythe - Alumnus
Bob Brighton - Friend of the University
Professor Edward 'Teddy' Garden - Former Member of Staff
Professor John Lakey - Alumnus
Arthur John Earnest Lello - Alumnus
Professor Geoffrey Sims - Former Vice-Chancellor
2016
Gwendolyn Bridges - Friend of the University
Peter William Doughty - Alumnus
Emeritus Professor J Cheryl Exum - Former Member of Staff
Professor Tom and Mrs Joan Flett - Former Member of Staff and Friends of the University
Angela Goodwill (nee Skeens) - Alumna
Professor Stan Gregory - Former Member of Staff
David John Henderson - Alumnus
Professor Sir Harry Kroto - Alumnus
Dr James Montague Lewis - Alumnus
Lucy Mitchell - Former Member of Staff
2015
2014
Professor Frank Benson - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
Professor Rob Bradgate - Former Member of Staff
Professor David Clifford Brown - Alumnus
Philip Lewys Burkinshaw, OBE - Alumnus
Pamela Burnip Mann, MBE - Alumna
Alan William Postlethwaite - Alumnus
Professor Eric Sainsbury - Alumnus and Former Member of Staff
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
Many of these obituaries and tributes have been submitted by alumni and friends of the University.
If you would like to submit an obituary for an alumnus or former member of staff for inclusion on this webpage, please email alumni@sheffield.ac.uk.