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Obituaries

Michael Andreevich Romanoff

Unassuming scion of the Russian imperial family who eschewed the limelight to live modestly in Australia

Professor Stanley Bowie

Professor Stanley Bowie

Geochemist and world authority on uranium geology who was a valued consultant to government and commercial bodies

Eames set new standards in the meticulous recording of tile designs

Elizabeth Eames

Meticulous archaeologist whose definitive research into tin-glazed tiles helped to illuminate the art and life of the Middle Ages

Margaret Wolfit

Actress daughter of Sir Donald Wolfit who played Jessica to his Shylock and went on to devise a series of one-woman shows

Dame Maeve Fort

Dame Maeve Fort

Shrewd diplomat who developed a valuable expertise in the affairs of the countries of southern Africa

Nadia Nerina

Nadia Nerina

Prima ballerina whose fast and light technique was immortalised in La Fille mal gardée, a role created specially for her

Lord Hogg of Cumbernauld

Scottish Labour MP and champion of Israel who became Deputy Speaker of the Lords

Lives remembered. Add your personal recollections to recently published Times obituaries
A human skull keeps watch over US soldiers encamped in the Vietnamese jungle during the Vietnam War.

Terry Fincher

Versatile, award-winning Fleet Street photographer who captured affecting images of war zones and took vivid portraits of celebrities

Bob Friend, Sky news presenter

Bob Friend

Seasoned BBC correspondent who later became a popular Sky News presenter

The Rev Leslie Hardman

Tolerant and cultured rabbi whose life was deeply scarred by his experiences as an Army chaplain during the liberation of Belsen

Ironside: he supervised the amalgamation of the 8th and 5th Royal Tanks

Brigadier Hugo Ironside

PoW escapee and Colditz veteran who diverted the inmates with theatre productions and then returned to being a professional soldier

It was thanks to Dukes that the Financial Times took its first steps abroad

Justin Dukes

Media executive who helped to launch the international edition of the Financial Times and was pivotal in the creation of Channel 4

John Hall

Polytechnic director who transformed postwar higher education by introducing computer science and making degrees widely available

Lives in brief. Other recent obituaries which have been published in The Times
Oliver Crawford

Oliver Crawford

Blacklisted Hollywood writer who went on to create episodes of Star Trek

Left to right: Ian Lavender as Pvt. Frank Pike, John Le Mesurier as Sgt. Arthur Wilson, Arthur Lowe as Captain George Mainwaring and Eric Longworth as Claude Gordon, the Town Clerk in the 1976 Christmas special of Dad's Army.

Eric Longworth

Character actor who originated the role of the town clerk in Dad’s Army

Gai Pearl Marshall

Bluebell Girl and femme fatale who took centre stage in fashion public relations

Giorgio Borg Olivier, Prime Minister of Malta, left, and George Thomson, Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, are seen before a luncheon at Marlborough House in London, Mar. 4, 1968.

Lord Thomson of Monifieth

Politician who became one of Britain’s first European commissioners and went on the chair the Independent Broadcasting Authority

Briggs: the sinking was a nightmare which recurred for the next 40 years

Lieutenant Edward Briggs

Lin Arroyo

Architect and high priest of ‘mambo Modernism’ in Cuba who designed Havana’s National Theatre, Sports Palace and Hilton Hotel

The Kingston Trio ? Reynolds, right, with Dave Guard and Bob Shane ? were the stars of 1950s US folk music

Nick Reynolds

Member of the Kingston Trio who had hits with several gentle folk songs before being eclipsed by the sexy radicalism of Bob Dylan

Houston: as well as his vivid coastal landscapes he also painted brilliant and often tempestuous flower pieces

John Houston

Distinguished Scottish painter who drew inspiration from the Fife coast for his highly coloured, near-Expressionistic landscapes

Vice Vukov

Croatian singer whose nationalist image caused the communist authorities to ban him, and who became a politician on independence

Horatiu Radulescu

Romanian composer who used unusual ensembles and tunings to summon the raw power of sound in wails, hums, groans and cries

Boris Yefimov

Boris Yefimov

Cartoonist who survived dangers of serving the Soviet regime whose enemies he lampooned from its birth to its demise

Miroslav Havel

Miroslav Havel

Czech postwar émigré and cut-glass designer who helped to revive Waterford Crystal and turn it into a leading exporter to the US

Peter Troy

Pioneering surfer and archetypal Australian freewheeling spirit who travelled the world in search of the perfect wave — and found it

Connie Haines

Singer who performed with the Harry James and Tommy Dorsey bands and recorded a hit with Frank Sinatra, who became her rival