Murray Walker was the last of the great sports commentators who brought us unforgettable sporting moments and catchphrases which delighted a generation

Steven Spurrier, a British wine expert and a fixture at all London tastings, died this week at the age of 79

The celebrated Byzantinist Cyril Mango died earlier this month; his insight will be keenly missed by enthusiasts of Byzantine studies

George Shultz, a long-term Secretary of State of the Reagan administration, has died at the age of 100

Following Carlos Menem’s recent passing, David Smith remembers his relationship with the bold and cunning politician

Paul du Quenoy offers an appreciation of the late scholar and free speech advocate James R. Flynn

The former director of the British School at Athens, who died last month at the age of 103, had a productivity in his old age that was both rare and admirable

Cinema, theatre and the world will be poorer for no longer having Christopher Plummer as a part of them

For all his apparently endless faults, we have just witnessed the passing of one of music’s true geniuses

Sheldon Adelson, one of Trump’s largest individual donors, has died; leaving his wife to continue their high-stakes political influence over America and Israel