Retirements confirmed

Professor Andrew Beeby has had a significant influence on the way in which reinforced concrete design is carried out in the UK and to a lesser extent in Europe and other countries.

Professor Ray Cartwright attended Lancaster Royal Grammar School and graduated in Natural Sciences and Anthropology (Cambridge University) in 1965 and in Medicine in 1968 (St George’s Hospital Medical School).

Professor Delia Davin is perhaps one of few professors to have left school aged only 15. She completed her A levels through evening classes and then, aged 19, went to teach in China. She returned in 1965 to study in the new Department of Chinese at Leeds.

Professor Peter Dowd was born at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia in July 1946. He joined the University of Leeds in 1975 following appointments in Australia (at Broken Hill, then University of New South Wales) and in Canada.

Professor Tony May is a leading light among a generation that created Transport Studies as an academic discipline in British universities.

Professor Paul Mitchell went to work for Proctor and Gamble, a renowned training ground for marketers, following graduation from the London School of Economics.

Professor David Palliser came to Leeds in 1994, having previously occupied the G F Grant Chair of History at the University of Hull.

Professor Philip Roberts is proud of his working-class and regional roots, and that pride is reflected in the principles and the pragmatic, ‘shirt-sleeves’ style which he has brought to his distinguished career in Drama and Theatre Studies, in his research and his teaching.

Professor Brian Sleeman was born in London in August 1939. He obtained a first-class BSc in Mathematics from the Battersea College of Advanced Technology (later the University of Surrey) in 1963, and went on to obtain his PhD in Mathematics from the University of London in 1966 under the supervision of the late Professor F M Arscott.

Professor Christopher Todd attended the Edinburgh Academy and Gordonstoun, before going up to Queen Mary College, London, where he took a first-class degree in French and remained for his doctoral research.

Professor Philip Wilby was born in Pontefract, and has spent most of his life in Yorkshire. After education at Leeds Grammar School and experience as a violinist in the National Youth Orchestra, he took a degree in Music at Oxford (1970) and joined the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.

Professor Sir Alan Wilson combines the capacity for theoretical work at the level of international renown with path-breaking practical applications of academic science, together with commercial sense, skill in academic management and a commitment to public service.