Recent necrology, October 2014

Some well-known people who have died recently

• Lynda Bellingham, 1948-2014
  Versatile actress and author who, as the ‘Oxo mum’ , brought ‘man-appeal’ to the business of gravy making

• Jack Bruce, 1943-2014
  Bass player and singer with Cream, the short-lived but  influential supergroup of the late 1960s

• Park Honan, 1928-2014
  Scholar and biographer of great writers from William Shakespeare to Matthew Arnold

• Jonathan Mane-Wheoki, 1944-2014
  NZ art curator, academic and historian

• Hugh Rae, 1935-2014
  Glaswegian riveter’s son who wrote bodice-rippers as Jessica Stirling

• Alastair Reid, 1926-2014
  Scottish poet who translated Pablo Neruda and ran off with one of Robert Graves’ ‘muses’

• Gough Whitlam, 1916-2014
  Australian politician and Prime Minister from 1972 to 1975, before being controversially dismissed by the Governor-General

• Gerald Wilson, 1918-2014
  Jazz composer and bandleader in the Duke Ellington mould