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It has just been announced that Steve Rawlings who was until recently the head of my sub department at Oxford has died in suspicious circumstances http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/jan/12/oxford-university-steven-rawlings-found-dead
He was one of the nicest, most straightfoward guys I have worked with. A couple of years ago at the successful end of a particularly difficult project he took me an a couple of others out to dinner as a thank you - something no one else has ever done. When he gave a presentation on the work of the department he spoke engagingly and well but without any sense of his own self importance. In situations like this it is conventional to talk highly of people but in this case he really was the guy I most respected here.
He was one of the nicest, most straightfoward guys I have worked with. A couple of years ago at the successful end of a particularly difficult project he took me an a couple of others out to dinner as a thank you - something no one else has ever done. When he gave a presentation on the work of the department he spoke engagingly and well but without any sense of his own self importance. In situations like this it is conventional to talk highly of people but in this case he really was the guy I most respected here.