Obituaries

 

A place to remember and mark the contribution of people across our Union.
 
Contact us to place a death notice in the Baptist Times News Round-up or share an obituary.

Visit our archive for all obituaries from 2013. 

Lists of Ministers and mission personnel who have died, as shared at our annual Assembly, can be found in our Online Directory.

 

In Memoriam

Click on the names below to read the obituary:
 

The Revd Timothy Brett Evans: 1938-2026 The Revd George Bonson: 1925-2026 The Revd G. Alex Potts: 1942-2025 The Revd Dr David Bruce Anderson Milne: 1940-2025 The Revd Roy Martin Deller: 1934-2026 Ralph Ernest Gregory: 1932-2025 The Revd Derek Rumbol: 1932-2025 The Revd Dr Raymond Brown: 1928-2025 Graham J. Rowles FCA: 1936-2025 The Revd David Laskey: 1936- 2025 The Revd Vernon Frederick (Fred) George MBE: 1943-2025 The Revd Graham Thomas Corderoy: 1931-2025 The Revd George Lambdon: 1929-2025 The Revd Martin Edward John Mitchell: 1941-2025 The Revd Michael John Collis: 1933-2025 The Revd Brian Stenner: 1931-2025 The Revd Gary Patchen: 1961-2025 The Revd David Gardner: 1938–2024 Grace Winifred Taylor (nee Lanchbury): 1926-2025 The Revd Pat Heap: 1938-2024 The Revd Dr Rex Mason: 1926-2025 Faith Bowers: 1939-2025 Dr John Biggs: 1933-2024 The Revd Roy Plant: 1930-2024 The Revd Ronald (Ron) P.M.Marr: 1932–2024 The Revd Rodney Sawtell: 1942-2024 The Revd David Baker: 1938-2024 The Revd John Trevor Perry: 1930-2024 The Revd Dr Richard Kidd: 1950-2023 The Revd Guy Roger Finnie: 1934-2024  The Revd Dr Brian Haymes: 1940-2024 John Raymond Hanson MA: 1927-2024  The Revd Raymond Herbert Whitfield: 1928-2024   The Revd Nathaniel Belton Hall: 1931-2024 The Revd Jane Powell: 1946-2024  The Revd Delvin Knower: 1937-2024  The Revd Eric Bray: 1936-2024  Joyce Mary Wainwright: 1934-2024  The Revd David Joynes: 1931-2022  The Revd Raymond Charles Bolton: 1918-2024  Pamela Neville: 1932-2023 The Revd Grenville Overton: 1953-2023  The Revd Frances Godden: 1938-2023   The Revd Paul Frederick Hill: 1952-2023 The Revd David Neil: 1929–2023 The Revd Vivien Mary Edwards (née Baggs): 1944-2022  The Revd Thomas William Stobart: 1932-2023 The Revd Donald Louis Cranefield: 1923-2023   The Revd Kenneth Denman: 1935-2023  The Revd Keith Foster BD: 1937-2023 Valerie Griffiths: 1933-2022  The Revd Bob Mills: 1944-2022  The Revd Samuel Brian Thomas: 1935-2022  The Revd Dr Alison V Fuller: 1945-2022 The Revd David A. Clark: 1929-2022  The Revd Philip Kearney: 1940-2022 The Revd Roger Aldersley: 1939-2022  The Revd Brian Hill: 1934-2022  The Revd Dr Derek Boyd Murray: 1936-2022 F Graham Sunderland: 1932-2022  The Revd Robert Geoffrey Green: 1948-2021  The Revd George Ronald Phillips: 1942-2022  The Revd Barry Vendy: 1947-2022 The Revd Peter Webb: 1940-2022  The Revd Dr Steve Latham: 1957-2022  Janet Catherine Ruddick: 1934-2021  The Revd Alan Hellawell BD: 1932-2021  The Revd Dr Rosemary J M Kidd: 1948-2022  The Revd Carol McCarthy: 1940-2021 Susan Hills: 1950-2021   Dr Michael Griffiths: 1928-2022 The Revd Elsie Howell (nee Martin): 1941-2022 Keith Arthur Rawlinson: 1934-2021  The Revd Richard Alfred Soar: 1942–2021  The Revd Stephen Lomas: 1954-2021  The Revd Wilfred Bryan Stanbury: 1940–2021   The Revd Dr Robert Alastair Campbell: 1942-2021  The Revd Robert Howie (Bob) Younger: 1935-2021 The Revd Michael Andrew Smith: 1949-2021  The Revd Geoffrey Whitfield MBE: 1933-2017 Cynthia Mavis Helen Dowdeswell: 1931-2021  Eric Rowland Mountford: 1932-2021  Denis Stuart MacGregor MBE: 1935-2021  The Revd Ruth Ann Davis: 1943-2021 Jean Trueman (nee McKee): 1933–2021 The Revd Ronald Rivers: 1932–2021  The Revd Jeremy Sewell: 1960-2020 The Revd Peter Wilson: 1933–2020  The Revd Geoffrey Wilson: 1929-2021  The Revd James Donaldson: 1927-2021 Kevin Mayhew: 1942-2021  Ruth Beasley-Murray: 1922-2020  The Revd Dr Daniel Hugh Matthews: 1936-2020  David Young: 1935-2020  Peter Briggs: 1926-2020 The Revd Stephen James Harvie MA: 1950-2020  The Revd Peter David Manson BSc BD: 1938-2020  The Revd Clifford James Thomas: 1927-2020  Derek Neal: 1938-2020 The Revd Roy William Thomas Fellows: 1936-2020  The Revd Joy Males: 1931-2020  The Revd Patrick Ingle: 1942-2020  The Revd Charles John Sutherland: 1931-2020  The Revd David Harper: 1932-2020  The Revd James (Jim) Renton Cargill: 1920-2020 The Revd Knud Wümpelmann: 1922-2020 The Revd Michael Banfield: 1948-2020 The Revd Ronald Messenger: 1923–2019  Sir John Houghton: 1931-2020  Jessie Winifred Harris: 1928-2019  Paul Montacute: 1946-2020   The Revd Douglas Charles Sparkes MA BD: 1927-2020 The Revd Frank Wiltshire: 1921-2019   Mr Peter Norman Clark LLB: 1924-2019  The Revd Simon Farrar: 1956-2019  The Revd Peter Dennis Chevill: 1924-2019    The Revd Gerald (Gee) Christopher Hemp: 1953-2019 Joan Morris: 1921-2019  The Revd Jack Ramsbottom: 1926-2019  Maureen Cox (nee Smith): 1935-2016    The Revd Peter G Whiting: 1930-2019  The Revd Ronald Smy: 1928-2019    The Revd Eric Laing: 1934-2019 The Revd Allan Cox: 1934-2019    The Revd Tasker Rhydwyn Lewis: 1925-2019    The Revd Mike Wood: 1941-2018 The Revd Bob Simpson: 1937-2018    The Revd Stanley Goodall: 1914-2018   The Revd John Lewis: 1957-2018  The Revd Brian Barker: 1931-2018  The Revd Dennis Edgar Weller: 1928-2018  The Revd Peter Egginton: 1927-2018   The Revd Kenneth Balsom: 1921-2018  The Revd Terence Tatton: 1919-2018 The Revd Rowland Graham Cole: 1937–2018    The Revd Derek George Taylor: 1927-2018 Mrs Joyce Evelyn Greenway, nee Wright: 1929-2018  Jim Stapleton: 1932-2018 The Revd Richard H Walker: 1936-2018  The Revd Sister Margaret Jarman CPP BD: 1932-2018 The Revd Graham Charles Clay: 1953-2018 The Revd Dr Dafydd G Davies: 1922-2017 The Revd Billy Graham: 1918-2018 The Revd Barbara Stanford: 1936-2017 The Revd Barrie Smith: 1951-2017  The Revd Hugh G Cross MBE: 1930-2017 The Revd Dr Marie Isaacs: 1936-2016 The Revd David John Cave 1947-2017 The Revd Dennis Floodgate: 1926-2017  Arthur Thomas Markie OBE: 1920-2017 The Revd Norman Trussler: 1921-2017  The Revd Ralph John Stephens: 1925-2017 The Revd Cyril Millwood: 1928-2017 The Revd John Comins: 1940-2017  The Revd Graham Ingram: 1936-2017 The Revd Alan Hugh Edwards: 1929-2017 Mrs Betty Margaret Andrews Sutton: 1932-2017 The Revd Norman Leslie Harris: 1927-2017 The Revd William Maurice Heath: 1928-2017  The Revd Barry L Cocker: 1944-2017 Clarice Morgan: 1919-2014 The Revd Bernard Green: 1925-2013 Professor Graham Ashworth CBE The Revd Keith Hobbs: 1937-2017 The Revd Walter Wragg: 1914-2013 Sir Godfray Le Quesne, QC The Revd Margaret Piper (née Phillips): 1925-2016  The Revd Ernest M. Forward: 1927-2016   The Revd Thomas Paterson (Tom) Gillies: 1928-2017  The Revd Stan Woods: 1936-2016 The Revd Steve Bond: 1959–2016  Mrs Catherine Nora Parkinson, nee Fleming: 1919-2016  The Revd Dr Barrington Raymond White: 1934-2016  The Revd Donald Bridge: 1931-2016 Clifford Challinor: 1933-2016 The Revd Frank Boyd: 1940–2016  The Revd John Roderick Peck: 1924-2016  Mrs Joyce Stockley: 1924-2016 The Revd David Newman: 1932-2016 The Revd Stephen Lawrence Moore: 1939–2016   The Revd David Geoffrey John Piggott: 1925–2016  The Revd Dr Frederick Adorkorbidji: 1954-2016 The Revd Bernard Gordon Hastings: 1929-2015 The Revd Brian Tucker: 1934–2015 The Revd Reginald Charles Dalton: 1922-2014 The Revd Frank Amos Goodwin: 1914-2014  The Revd George Reginald Neal: 1929-2015 The Revd Francis Davis Cobley: 1928-2015  The Revd Daniel Weller: 1932-2015 The Revd Peter Lanigan: 1955-2015  The Revd Malcolm Purdy: 1930-2015 The Revd Patrick Goodland MBE: 1929-2014  Dr David Robin Goodbourn: 1948-2014 The Revd Arthur Walter Francis: 1913-2014   The Revd John Frederick Vernon Nicholson MA: 1928-2014 The Revd Mavis Beamont: 1933-2014 The Revd Peter Saunders: 1930-2014  The Revd Dr W C R Hancock: 1927-2014 The Revd A. Glyn Morris: 1916-2013 The Revd Basil Amey: 1928-2014 Pastor Robert Frederick Dunlop: 1938-2014 The Revd Ron Mason: 1922-2013 The Revd Gordon Derek Palmer: 1951-2013 The Revd Donald MacKenzie: 1926-2013 The Revd Geoffrey Norman Fewkes: 1942-2013 The Revd Wyndham Rees: 1928-2013  The Revd T. Aneurin Davies: 1918-2013 Raymond Frederick Rose: 1936-2013 Trevor Wilfred Davis: 1931-2013 Geoffrey Marshall: 1939-2013 Olive Davison: 1920-2013 Alice Rowsell: 1911-2013 Peter Hicks: 1940-2013 The Revd John Bedford: 1931-2013 William A. D. Whyte: 1927-2013 John Cuthbertson Dye: 1913-2013 David S. Burnett Jones: 1923-2013 Ralph Philip Martin: 1925-2013 Professor Eric W Ives OBE Philip Walter Withers: 1929-2013 Michael Edwin Cole: 1935-2012 Graham Sturton: 1928-2013 Glyn Phillip Rhys Prosser: 1928-2013 Edward Price-Stephens: 1922-2013