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An obituary appears in this week’s Times Higher Education: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=418143&c=2

Messages of condolence can be posted here: http://www.english.qmul.ac.uk/news/Tributes%20to%20Kevin%20Sharpe/58978.html

There has been a request for flowers from the family only. If anyone would like to make a donation in memory of Kevin to Professor Johnson’s lymphoma research centre, the funeral directors will be setting up a page on their website (http://www.jonathanterry.co.uk/) to allow donations via credit card.