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Times Online (Free subscription) | 31/10/2008
Professor Emeritus James Stevens Curl writes: Thomas Braun () carried out invaluable work on the design and conservation of street-lamps in Oxford for the Oxford Civic Society in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He cared deeply about the ugliness of so much modern street furniture in historic environments, an ugliness that affected him almost like a physical assault. Your obituary mentioned his wit,...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Peter Kinsley writes: Pat Moss (), like her brother Stirling, always “backed Britain” when representing her country abroad, and a story about Pat returning from the Monte Carlo Rally may not be amiss at her sad departure. Driving through a small French town she was halted by a large crowd having a fête, with dancing in the streets. Instead of parting to let the queen of ladies racing through, they...
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Letter: Your obituary of Lord Thomson of Monifieth was not quite correct in its reference to Forward, the Scottish socialist weekly
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Liberal England (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
The Daily Telegraph obituary of George Thomson reveals his family connections to the high command of the old SDP: his daughter Caroline was married to the former SDP candidate Roger Liddle (later an adviser to Tony Blair) and her elder sister Ailsa to Dick (now Lord) Newby, the party's national treasurer. And a wonderful trivial fact: George Thomson began his working life editing The Dandy.
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Obituary: Labour minister and Lib Dem peer who backed Europe and broadcasting freedom
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
When the first Labour contingent to the European Parliament – led by Michael Stewart, the former Foreign Secretary – arrived at Zaventem Airport in Brussels in late 1975, there to meet us on the tarmac and bid us a warm welcome was the British Labour Member of the European Commission, George Thomson. He had been our colleague for 20 years in the House of Commons, representing Dundee East until 1972,...
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Cllr Fraser Macpherson (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
Former Dundee East Labour MP, Lord (George) Thomson has passed away at the age of 87. A hardworking MP for the City for twenty years, Lord Thomson later chaired the Independent Broadcasting Authority and was a Liberal Democrat House of Lords spokesperson on foreign affairs and broadcasting. His widow, Lady Grace Thomson, said: "He loved his time in Dundee. It was his own town and he loved the people."...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 05/10/2008
A moderate Labour politician who came to feel alienated from the extreme Left of his party and eventually joined the Liberal Democrats in the late 1980s, Lord Thomson of Monifieth was, as George Thomson in the House of Commons, the last holder of the office of Secretary of State for Commonwealth Affairs, 1967-68, in the second administration of Harold Wilson. By then a strong pro-European, he left...
