Britain in 2023 said "Goodbye" to thirteen remarkable old men and women

 January 2023

Tom Karen

Britain says "Farewell" to Tom Karen its 20th century Giant of Industrial Design and Gentle Genius Toymaker (link)

Ronald Blythe

Britain says "Farewell" to its Writer, Ronald Blythe, best remembered for his masterly evocation of English rural life in a village called of Akenfield (link)

February

Kit Hesketh-Harvey

Britain says "Farewell" to Kit Hesketh-Harvey, its Master where Words meet Music and  joyous Renaissance Man (link)

March 

Rory Young

Time for Britain to honour and pay tribute to its Master Stone Carver, Rory Young (link)

Mik Critchlow

Britain says "Farewell" to Mik Critchlow, much-loved Photographer of the life and people of a Town called Ashington (link)

Dorothy Bohm 

Britain was once a welcoming country which adopted and has now lost a German-Jewish refugee who became its brilliant photographer, Dorothy Bohm (link)

April

Harold Riley

Britain says "Farewell' to the painter and much-loved son of Salford, Harold Riley (link)

May

Rosemary Cramp

Britain says "Farewell" to the brilliant Rosemary Cramp who, more than any other Archaeologist, opened its eyes to the Anglo Saxons (link)

July

Beatty Orwell

Britain says "Goodbye" to the redoubtable Beatty Orwell, protestor against the British Union of Fascists at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936 (link)

Derek Malcolm

Britain says "Farewell" to our old and revered, Prince of Film Critics, Derek Malcolm (link)

September

Michael Leonard

Why has Britain failed to say "Farewell" to Michael Leonard, its once revered and now forgotten, Prince of Photorealist Painters ? (link)

October

Terence Davies

Britain says "Goodbye" to its Son of Liverpool, Film Director and Prince of Lyricism, Terence Davies (link) 

December

Tim Brighouse

Britain's teachers say "Farewell" to their towering beacon of light, the brilliant, charismatic educationalist, Tim Brighouse (link)