Necrology – a list of notable people who have died recently.
- Victor Arwas, 1937-2010
Bon vivant, dealer and connoisseur known for his integrity and his passion for Art Nouveau and Art Deco - Mark Bence-Jones, 1930-2010
Elegant chronicler of upper-class life who gave up hunting because he could not afford a groom - Claude Blair, 1922-2010
Bon vivant and leading authority on European arms and armour who gave most of his career to the Victoria & Albert Museum - Christopher Cazenove, 1945-2010
Old Etonian actor who played officers and gentlemen before finding fame as a wicked schemer in Dynasty - Herb Ellis, 1921-2010
Jazz guitarist of quiet intensity behind Oscar Peterson and Ella Fitzgerald - Antony Flew, 1923-2010
Rationalist philosopher famous for his atheism who late in life concluded that there was a God - Carlos Franqui, 1921-2010
Cuban writer and political activist - John Goodliffe, 1929-2010
Former Russian Department head at the University of Canterbury and author - Penelope Hughes-Hallett, 1927-2010
Society beauty who became a much-praised writer, biographer and vivid chronicler of Regency London - Alan Jefferson, 1921-2010
Musical administrator and biographer - Kenneth McKellar, 1927-2010
Tenor who rejected the opera and concert circuits for the traditional songs of his native Scotland - Malcolm McLaren, 1946-2010
Manager of the Sex Pistols, the punk band which he steered to fame and notoriety before their implosion barely two years later - Peter Porter, 1929-2010
Prolific poet whose deeply personal work won acclaim both in Britain and his native Australia - Corin Redgrave, 1939-2010
Actor who brought the same aura of enigma and emotional control to his craft as he did to his Left-wing politics - Alan Sillitoe, 1928-2010
Nottingham-born writer’s novels marked him out as one of the Angry Young Men of British fiction to emerge in the 1950s
Christchurch City Libraries Blog 
RIP John Goodliffe. Not only did this man patiently teach me Russian, however badly I mangled it, he always encouraged me to write. The university library has a wonderful collection of Russian material, due in no small part to his years of effort. He also edited a book about the history of St Christopher’s in Avonhead, his local parish.
Was Mr Wrasskey Teaching then? He taught Russian Literature, it was one of those crazy fillers you do to flesh a rather tired looking BA, and turned out to be one of my favourite courses.
Indeed – Henry Wrassky also corrected my Russian 🙂 Along with Marina Page and other long-suffering tutors…