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OBITUARIES 2026

 

Sir Anthony Leggett (55)

Nobel laureate Sir Anthony James Leggett, widely recognized as a world leader in condensed matter physics and for his pioneering work on superfluidity and the quantum mechanics of macroscopic systems, died March 8. He was 87 years old.

Leggett had been the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign since 1983. His research in theoretical condensed matter physics and the foundations of quantum mechanics won the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the theory of superconductors and superfluids.

Leggett was born in Camberwell, South London, in 1938. He began his college education as a classics major, graduating from Oxford University with a B.A. in 1959. After completing his first degree, he began a second undergraduate degree at Oxford, this time in physics.

He joined the University of Illinois physics department as a postdoctoral researcher in 1964, later spending time at the University of Sussex before returning to Illinois, where he remained until his retirement in 2018.

Leggett is survived by his wife, Haruko Kinase-Leggett, his daughter, Elizabeth Asako Kinase-Leggett, and his sisters, Judith Leggett and Clare Prangley.

 

Christopher Gardner-Thorpe MD, FRCP, FRCPE, FACP. (59)

Christopher came to Beaumont inn 1954 from St Philip’s in Kensington: leaving in 1959. He then trained in medicine at St Thomas’ Hospital in London followed by neurology, holding the post of Consultant Neurologist at the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital and also working as an independent Consultant Neurologist. He was an expert witness in Court. He lived in Devon for more than half his lifetime and had a wide interest in neurology, including the manifestations of lupus within the nervous system. He enjoyed Dartmoor and spent much time there but also has commitments in teaching medical students in the Exeter University Medical School, mainly in the Humanities – medical history, medicine and the law, and medical writing. He also examined and directed the courses in medical history at the Society of Apothecaries, livery company in London of which he was the President.

He was a bibliophile and donated his collection of Historic medical books to the Extensive Library at Exeter Cathedral. He was married with five children, three of whom are involved in medicine. His last three years were spent in care struck down ironically by neurological illness. It never depressed him and was in good spirits til;l his untimely death.

( Christopher’s father Colonel Sir Ronald was Lord Mayor of London 1980-81 and Treasurer of the Liberal Party 1962-65).

 

His Honour Dr Judge Jeremy Connor (56)

John Harding ( The Guardian-Obituary)

Mon 30 Mar 2026 16.17 BST

My friend Jeremy Connor, who has died aged 87, was a circuit judge in London from 1996 to 2004, having spent his earlier career as a barrister and then as a stipendiary magistrate.

Aside from his work directly inside courts, Jeremy was also, for many years, chair of two legal bodies – the Inner London Youth Courts, which oversees best practice in youth courts and examines sentencing data, and the Inner London and City of London Probation Committee, a statutory body in charge of probation services.

Born in Crowborough. East Sussex, Jeremy was the only child of Joseph, a builder, and Mabel (nee Adams), an artist. Educated at Beaumont,he went to University College London to read law and then trained at the Middle Temple before becoming a criminal law barrister.

He worked in that role until 1979, when he was appointed as a stipendiary magistrate in London at Bow Street magistrates court, taking on the chairmanship of the Inner London Youth Courts the following year and elected as chair of the Inner London and City of London Probation Committee in 1989.

For a number of years he was also an active member of the Institute for the Study of Treatment of Delinquency (now the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies), which tries to find better ways of dealing with young offenders through focused supervision and crime prevention.

Jeremy relinquished each of those roles in 1996, when he moved on to become a circuit judge, sitting in crown and county courts in London and also serving as a member of the Parole Board of England and Wales, helping to make decisions about the release of serious offenders on parole or life licence.

In retirement from 2004, he studied for a theology PhD at King’s College London, which he received in 2011. An articulate, approachable, outgoing and highly principled man, he also enjoyed watching opera, going to the theatre and travelling and writing.

He is survived by his partner of 55 years, Peter Lantos, an expert on neurodegenerative diseases who became professor of neuropathology at the Institute of Psychiatry at King’s College London. They were joined in legal partnership in 2006.