Obituaries
Barry Martin (1943-2025)
He spent sixty years making art out of movement — steel rods that crept in and out of their own structures, discs…
Obituaries
Obituaries
Nic Wing (1958-2016)
At twenty-one, he stood about in the grounds of Knebworth House while Trevor Howard, blacked up and in a tutu, rode a…
Obituaries
Benedict "Ben" le Vay (1953-2022)
He judged the Club's Greatest British Eccentric of the Year award in 2009, and went on insisting to the end that he…
Obituaries
Christopher Lee (1941–2021)
He was expelled from grammar school over a cricket pavilion that came very close to burning down, and ran away to sea…
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Gary Bowman (1952-2020)
He took bets on American football from a call centre in Manchester, moved the whole operation to an island in the Indian…
Obituaries
Martin Miller (1946–2013)
He wrote a dating manual at fourteen, before he met his first girlfriend. And sold a hundred copies in a week. He…