Obituaries (print edition)

It’s with regret that I report that Michael Graham, the well-known partner in the long-established firm, Graham & Oxley, died on November 25.

Sadly, but not unexpectedly at the age of 90, Frank Dux passed away on November 18, 2022.

From Ben Rogers Jones of Welsh auction house Rogers Jones & Co

A memorial for Frank Dux, of Frank Dux Antiques in Bath, will take place at 11am on December 21 at the North Wiltshire Crematorium near Royal Wootton Bassett, SN4 8ET.

It is with the greatest sadness, that his family has announced that their brother Peter Delehar died after a short illness on October 7 at the age of 78.

It is with great sadness that I have to report the death of Martin Mortimer on October 1 following a challenging short illness. He passed away peacefully at home aged 94.

It is with great sadness that we announce Danny Robinson has passed away peacefully after a short stay in hospital at the age of 84.

We are sad to announce the sudden death of Shane Theophilus (August 23, 1954-October 22, 2022).

We are very sorry to inform that Roger Clarke passed away on Sunday, October 16, after a short illness in Mallorca.

My friend Nina Zborowska, who has died aged 77, was an art dealer, avid collector and enthusiast whose sense of style permeated her life and work.

Well-known Hungerford antiques dealer and co-owner of Hungerford Arcade, Hazel Browne, has died at the age of 91.

Diana Steel, founder of The Antique Collectors Club, has died. She was 82.

It is with great sadness that we announce the sudden but peaceful passing of John Lines.

Members of the Scottish antiques trade may be interested to learn of the death at the age of 75 of Mrs Jean Barker, who traded for many years under the name Huntly Antiques until retiring to France in 2004.

My wife Ida Marie Anna was born in Neuilly-Sur-Seine, Paris, in 1941, eldest daughter to a Greco-Italian mother, Ivy Contarini, and a French father, Guy George Antoine Lapierre.

The antique dealer, my cousin, Jack Lipitch passed away on August 26, 2022, aged 92.

Christopher Bangs, who is probably best known for his reference book on candlesticks, 'The Lear Collection', was a man of many talents.

We are very sorry to inform you that our friend and colleague Roger Warren passed away. Roger had been battling cancer since diagnosis in December of last year, it is a cliché to say that he fought hard – but in Roger’s case this is the truth.

Jerome Eisenberg (1930-2022), who died aged 92 on July 6, was a leading member of the antiquities trade.

My mother Sheila Hough (nee Haptie), who died in May at the age of 98, started her career in the antiques trade after leaving the WRAF [Women’s Royal Air Force] at the end of the Second World War.