Dr Steve Tiesdell, Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at the University of Glasgow and one of the UK’s leading academic urban designers, died on 30 June 2011, aged 47.  You can read Steve's obituary here.

 

Dr Kenneth Elliott, former member of the Music Department staff, Senior Honorary Research Fellow, and eminent scholar of early Scottish Music, died on Friday 9 September after a period of illness.


Dr Bill Jarrett, former Professor of Veterinary Pathology, died on Saturday 27 August 2011

Bill was Professor of Veterinary Pathology from 1968 until 1990. In 2002 he was awarded the honorary degree of DVMS.  He studied at the Glasgow Veterinary College, qualifying MRCVS with honours in 1949 and at the University, graduating PhD in 1955. He was a research student for three years before his appointment as a lecturer at the Department of Veterinary Pathology in 1952. He was Head of Hospital Pathology at the department from 1953 until 1961 and then a Reader in Pathology from 1962 to 1965, went on secondment for a year to the University of East Africa and then returned to Glasgow as titular Professor of Experimental Veterinary Medicine. His research interests lay in the fields of tumours viruses, leukemia and immunology.  The work of Bill and his team on feline leukaemia virus in the 1960s was truly outstanding and was the foundation for many subsequent studies on oncogenes and retroviral diseases of both man and animals.

Bill died, peacefully, on Saturday 27 August 2011 in the company of his daughters Freda and Ruth, and his brother Os. His obituary, carried in the Herald can be read here.

First published: 15 September 2011

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