Mira Calix, experimental electronic musician and sound installation artist – obituary
In 2012 she erected Nothing is Set in Stone, a singing stone shaped like a mammoth egg, on a grassy hill at Fairlops Waters, near Romford. Made…
Harvey Thomas, political adviser who transformed Tory campaigns and party conferences for Margaret Thatcher – obituary
Lord Thorneycroft, party chairman either side of Mrs Thatcher’s 1979 election victory, kept him on as a consultant to liven up party rallies. His first, at Wembley,…
Lady Shore, senior civil servant who championed the cause of women in medicine – obituary
Lady Shore, who has died aged 94, was a medical academic and expert on manpower in the NHS, and the widow of the Eurosceptic Labour Cabinet minister…
Mary Coombs, pioneering woman programmer on LEO, the world’s first business computer – obituary
It was a huge challenge. Not only had much of the work never been done before, but as Mary would point out, she was working on a…
Former Telegraph business journalist Roly Gribben, a ‘supreme professional of extraordinary integrity’, dies aged 86
Roland Gribben, who died on Friday aged 86, was one of the most accomplished business journalists of his generation, a relentlessly hard-working and decent man who was…
The sports stars who died in 2021, remembered by those who knew them
It’s amazing to think of the hurdles that women like Cecilia would have had to overcome in order to pursue playing cricket when they did. I’m in…
Lady Nicholas Gordon Lennox, model who became the perfect diplomatic wife – obituary
In 1997 Mary Gordon Lennox became chairman of the Friends of Pallant House Gallery in Chichester, which had been founded in 1982 in a Grade I-listed Queen…
Sir Christopher Hogg, chairman of Courtaulds who transformed the business and boldly hived off the textiles side – obituary
Sir Christopher Hogg, who has died aged 85, was one of the most principled and disciplined British business leaders of his generation, as chairman first of Courtaulds…